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Votes and
Proceedings
of the Lower
House,
printed by
A. C. Green
Oct. 19
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Age of Nineteen Years. That a paper or Instrument of Writing
purporting to be the last Will and Testament of the said Francis
Key, was found amongst his Papers in his own Hand writing shortly
after his Decease, fully expressing the Manner in which he intended
to devise his Estate, but for Want of the said Testament or Will being
executed before Three credible Witnesses, the then Commissary Gen-
eral adjudged the same to be good and sufficient in Law, so far
forth only as respects the personal Estate. That in Consequence
thereof the Petitioner and her younger Children were left destitute
of that Provision which her deceased Husband intended them. That
the Whole of the Deceased's Personal Estate not specificially devised
has been paid away in Discharge of Debts, and that there are several
Demands yet unsatisfied. And therefore praying the Legislature to
take the Premises into Consideration and pass an Act to establish
the said Paper or Instrument of Writing as and for the last Will and
Testament of the said Francis Key, deceased, to all Intents and Pur-
poses whatsoever, as if the same had been duly executed in due
Form of Law, before Three credible Witnesses.
A Petition of Martha Roundell, Sarah Cox, Henry Brooke and
Mary his Wife, and Benjamin Skinner and Henrietta his Wife, set-
ting forth, that the Petitioners, Martha, Sarah, Mary and Henrietta,
are Daughters and Coheirs of Mary Smith, late of Prince-George's
County, Widow, deceased, and as such are intitled to One Moiety
or Half Part of sundry Tracts of Land mentioned in the said Peti-
tion. And further setting forth, that the said Martha intermarried
with a certain Samuel Roundell, who is since gone beyond Sea and
resides somewhere in Great-Britain as the Petitioners are informed.
And further setting forth that the said Moiety of the Lands specified
in the said Petition had been heretofore divided, by Consent, by Per-
sons appointed by the Petitioners. And further setting forth, that the
Petitioners being advised that the same Division cannot be perfected,
nor Deeds properly executed by Reason of the Absence and for Want
of the Concurrence of said Samuel Roundell, therefore prayed that
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an Act of Assembly may pass impowering them by the Interposition
of those who had heretofore divided the said Lands, or others to be
agreed upon to divide the same, and complete the Whole by Deed or
Deeds of Partition and a Petition of sundry Inhabitants of Saint
Mary's County, praying that no Act may pass for the removal of
Chaptico Warehouse; severally indorsed, "By the Upper House of
Assembly, October 19, 1773, read and referred to the Consideration
of the Lower House of Assembly.
Signed by Order, U. SCOTT, Cl. Up. Ho."
The House adjourns till To-morrow Morning 9 o'Clock.
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