Appendix. 575

of June One Thousand seven hundred & thirty Duly Executed
Acknowledged and Recorded may appear. And it appearing that the
said Land is of Equall Value to the Land Called Marshes Seat There-
fore Be it Fnacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary
by and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordships Governour &
the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly and the Authority of the
same that the said William Vernon be Invested with an Estate in Fee
Simple in the said Tract of Land Called Marshes Seat anything in

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the said Will or any Law Statute Useage or Custom to the Contrary
Notwithstanding Provided the said William Vernon his heirs or As-
signes. shall duly Convey unto the said Thomas Knighton, and the
Heirs of his Body the said Parcell of Land part of the said Three
Tracts of Land Called happy Choice, Clarks Groves and the Addition
to Clarks Groves by a Sufficient Conveyance with a Generall War-
ranty. And Be it Enacted by the Authority Aforesaid by and with
the Advice & Consent Aforesaid that said Thomas Knighton the
Son and heir of the Body of the said Thomas Knighton be and are
vested with the same Estate in the Afores^d parcell of Land part of
the three Tracts of Land Called Happy Choice, Clarkes Groves &
the Addition to Clarks Groves when Conveyed by the said William
Vernon as they would have in the said Land Called Marshes Seat if
this Act had never been made any thing in the said Will or any Law
Statute Usage or Custom to the Contrary. Notwithstanding Saving
to his Sacred Majesty his heirs and Successors to the Right Honour-
able the Lord Proprietarie his heirs & Successors And to all Bodies
Polotick and Corporate and all Others not mencond in this Act their
Severall and Respective Rights.

p. 363

An Act to Record and make Valid in Law a Deed from John Wat-
more to a Certain William Dare the Father and Sale to be made
of Certain Lands therein Mencond by the Surviving Executor of
William Dare the Son.

Chap. XIX
p. 377

Whereas a Certain William Dare Deceased about the Year Six-
teen hundred and Ninety two for the Consideration of Seven Thou-
sand pounds of Tobacco Agreed with a Certain John Watmore Alsoe
Deceased for the Purchase of a Tract of Land Containing Two
hundred Acres Lying in Cecill County and the said John Watmore
Accordingly Executed an Indenture bearing Date the Tenth day of
June in the fourth Year of the Reign of their Late Majesties King
William & Queen Mary for the Conveying the said Lands Bounded
as in the said Indenture is Mencond to the said William Dare
in fee Simple but the same Deed was not Acknowledged & Recorded
Pursuant to the Directions of the Act of Assembly then in such
Case made & provided, Altho a Power of Attorney was made by
the said Watmore for that purpose but the Execution thereof pre-
vented by the Death of the Attorney. And Whereas after the Death
of the said William Dare the right of him to the said Two Hun-

p. 378