CHAP.
XV.
The special
Records, and
all Judgments,
&c.
therein entered,
are confirmed. |
that the Judgments and Determinations, which should be by them made
between
Party and party, by Authority of the same Act, should be Recorded in
a fair Book or Books, to be provided for that Purpose; and every such Judgment
and Determination should by Signed by Three or more of the said Commissioners;
which Book or Books, when perfected, were by the said Act directed
to be placed and intrusted with the Clerk of Anne-Arundel County,
among the Records of the said County, that all Persons concerned might
repair
to view the same. And whereas it appears to this General Assembly,
that there are in the Office of the Clerk of Anne-Arundel County,
among the
Records of the same County, Five Books of the Proceedings and Judgments
of the said Commissioners, containing Deeds, and other Matters, relating
to
the Real Estates and Interest, as well of many of the Inhabitants of the
same
County, as of divers other Persons; and which Books appear to be fair and
clear in the respective Entries, and have for Forty Years last past, and
upwards,
been taken and deemed as authentic Records within this Province.
And
it further appears to this General Assembly, That the Meetings of the said
Commissioners were regularly entered in the said Records, and the Names
of
the Commissioners at all such Meetings entered by the Clerk of the same
Court; but that, agreeable to the Letter of the said Act, Three or more
of
the said Commissioners have not Signed the respective Judgments in the
Books
aforesaid. In order therefore to remove any Doubts which may hereafter
arise,
concerning the Validity of the Proceedings in the said Books of Record
contained,
and the better to establish the same, it is humbly prayed that it may
be Enacted;
II. And
be it Enacted, by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary,
by and
with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's Governor, and the
Upper and Lower
Houses of Assembly, and the Authority of the same, That the
said Five Books of
Records of the Commissioners, appointed by Commission in virtue of the
said
Act, entitled, An Act for the Relief of Anne-Arundel County,
and all Persons
concerned in the Records thereof lately Burnt, and the several Judgments,
Deeds
and Proceedings in them entered, shall be held, deemed, and adjudged, construed
and taken, as good and effectual in Law, as Records, to all Intents,
Constructions,
and Purposes, as if the same Judgments, and every of them, had
been Signed by Three or more of the said Commissioners so appointed as
aforesaid,
or the Notice directed by the said recited Act had been given; such Omission,
or any Law, Usage, or Custom to the contrary thereof in any wise
notwithstanding.
Examined and Compared with the Original Act, REVERDY GHISELIN,
THOMAS BACON.
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WHEREAS there hath been heretofore, in pursuance of an Act of
Assembly, Twenty-five Acres of Land, then supposed to be the
Right of one David Brown, situate in Somerset County, laid
out
into Thirty Lots, exclusive of the Public Ground, and Erected into a Town
called by the Name of Princess-Anne Town; many of which Lots have
been
since taken up, and well improved, and others secured though not yet built
on; and the Court-house, Prison, and one of the Inspection-houses for the
said County, placed on the said Public Ground in the said Town. And
whereas some Doubt hath arisen concerning the Title of the said Lots, which
are supposed to be Escheat unto the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary:
For aiding whereof, it is prayed that it may be Enacted;
II. And
be it Enacted, by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary,
by and
with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's Governor, and the
Upper and Lower |
