as vacancy under that act and the former act for avoiding grants, hath obtained a warrant and returned a certificate of the same as aforesaid. ¾ General Court for the Western Shore, May Term 1795.     Having heard counsel on both sides, and considered the foregoing case, we are of opinion¾that all land in that part of Washington county (now called Allegheny) lying to the westward of a line drawn due north from the most western corner of Fort Cumberland to the Pensylvania line, is included within the appropriation made by the second section of the act of the general assembly of November session 1781, chapter 20:¾and that in virtue of that act, and the act of November session 1784, chapter 75, the grant stated to have been issued in consequence of the warrant to Dickeson Simkins is void in law.                     SAMUEL CHASE,                     JEREMIAH TOWNLEY CHASE. ¾     On the above opinion it is adjudged and ordered, that the caveat of Thomas Beall against David Lynn's certificate of a tract of land in Allegany county, called Lynn's mill seat, be and it is hereby dismissed. ¾¾ NORMAN BRUCE & WM. DIGGES,)                            vs.                              )    In the Land-office, Nov.             WILLIAM SHIELDS.               )            8th, 1794.     The said Norman Bruce and William Digges, with Benedict Calvert, who hath since died, having entered a caveat against the said William Shields, certificate of Shield's adventure, in Frederick county; and the said caveat having been heard by the late chancellor, and by him ruled good; and the said chancellor having thereon passed an order directing the said certificate to be corrected; and the surveyor of Frederick county having represented that the said order is to him unintelligible, and having therefore prayed the chancellor to instruct him relative to the execution of his duty, in obedience of the said order, and the said Shield having filed a petition, praying that the said order may be reversed and set aside and that the said caveat may be again heard; and the chancellor having considered the said order, and the plats therein referred to; and the said order appearing to him to be either vague or uncertain, or (if construed so and to convey a meaning consistent with the caveator's pretensions) to direct