210 HANNAH K. CHASE'S CASE.

Bryden afterwards paid unto the said Daniel Grant, the said money
with the interest due thereon: and whereas the said James Clarke,
at the request of the same James Bryden, hath paid unto the said
Harry Dorsey Gough, the sum of seven thousand two hundred and
sixteen dollars and forty-t^o cents, money of the United States,
being the balance due unto him for principal and interest; and
thereupon the said James Bryden delivered up unto the said Harry
Dorsey Gough, his said two bonds for conveyance as aforesaid, and
the said Harry Dorsey Gough, at the request of the said James
Bryden, did on the third day of February, in the year one thousand
eight hundred and six, convey and make over the said two several
lots or parcels of ground with the appurtenances, unto the said
James Clarke, his heirs and assigns, for ever, as by his deed to the
said James Clarke, duly executed and acknowledged, reference
being thereunto had, will fully appear. And whereas the said
Samuel Chase on the day of the date of this deed, at the request
of the said James Bryden, hath paid to the said James Clarke the
sum of seven thousand two hundred and sixteen dollars and forty-
two cents, being the sum paid by him for the said James Bryden to
the said Harry Dorsey Gough as abovementioned. And whereas
the said Samuel Chase, on the date of this deed, hath also paid to
the said James Bryden the sum of ten thousand two hundred and
eighty-three dollars and fifty-eight cents, the receipt whereof is
testified by his being one of the subscribing witnesses to the exe-
cution of this deed. Now this indenture witnesseth, that the said
James Clarke," &c. conveying to Samuel Chase an absolute estate
in fee simple.

The lease from the late Samuel Chase to James Bryden, bears
date on the 26th day of February, 1806, of this property for the
term of fifteen years, reserving an annual rent of two thousand dol-
lars, is in the usual form, and the acknowledgment of it by Chase
and his wife, the present plaintiff, is in the form required by law.
The recital and condition of the bond in the penalty of forty thou-
sand dollars, of the same date, from Samuel Chase, the plaintiffs
late husband, to James Bryden, is expressed in these words:

"Whereas it has been agreed, on the day and year abovemen-
tioned, by and between the said Samuel Chase and the said
James Bryden as follows, to wit: that the said Samuel Chase, his
heirs and assigns, at and upon the expiration of fifteen years from
the day of the date hereof, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and six, and not before, and at any time within one