Ac/s. 235

the af^d Law had an Estate in fee And for that the said John Gresham
has not yet made any Improvem^t on the said Lots, To prevent any
further Disputes or the Giving any further Room for any persons
for the future to make any Entrys on the said Lots, It's pray'd that
it may be Enacted
And Be it Enacted by the R^t Hon^ble the Lord Prop^ry by and with
the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's Gov^r and the uper and
Lower houses of Assembly and the Authority of the Same, that the
said three Severall Lotts on being paid for to the proprietors be

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and Remain to the Severall uses as Orriginally Designed in Laying
out the said Lots and the Ordinance of Assembly made Aprill the
9^th 1706 af^d for Ever, any pretence of their not being built on or
any Entry thereof by the said Gresham or any other person to the
Contrary thereof in any wise Notwithstanding, the Ground whereon
the prison stands always Excepted & Reserved to the Publick.

p. 392

An Act to Confirme to Mary Hall of Talbot County widow a Tract
of Land Called Glades addition in Talbot County.

Whereas it is represented to this Present Generall Assembly by
Mary Hall that on the Twenty seventh day of December Anno
Domini Seventeen hundred and fourteen a Certain Jasper Hall of
Talbot County the husband of the said Mary in his Life time, by his
Certain deed of Sale for Sundry Considerations therein menconed
but more Especially for the Consideration of one shift Sterl, Con-
veyed to a Certain Thomas Lee of the Isand of Burmuda Mariner a
tract of Land Called Glades Addition, lying in Talbot County on the
north side of Tred haven Creek, Containing ab^t Seventy one a[cres] of
Land, which the said Jasper Hall was purely induced to by the many
Promises of the said Lee but Particularly of furnishing the said
Hall with one or two good Negroe Slaves in Order to recompence him
for the said Land, that the said Lee did towards the Compliance with
part of his premisses Deliver to the said Hall one Negroe Boy of about
14 years of Age, that the said Lee afterwards on his Departure out
of this Province stole and Carryed away the said Negroe Boy un-
known to the said Hall, and against his will, and never Afterwards
returned the boy or Ever Came into the Province, that the s^d Jasper
Hall by the many fair promises of the said Lee was further per-
swaded to become bound with the said Lee to a Certain Richard Ben-

Acts of
May, 1718,
ch. 9

nett Esq^r for the payment of the Sum of thirty two pounds fourteene
Shill^s Curr^t mony which was afterwards paid out of the Estate of
the said Jasper Hall the truth of all which have been Sufficiently
made appear to this present Generall Assembly by Testimony worthy
of Credit, wherefore for that the said Jasper Hall Conveyed away
the said Land from himself to the said Lee for Consideracons which
the said Lee never performed and for that the Sum of thirty two
pounds fourteen shill^s Curr^t mony paid out of the said Halls Estate

p. 393