Acts. 415

An Act for the Relief of Peter Carmack
Whereas Henry Gilder late of Cecil County and Mary his wife
by their deed of Bargain and Sale Executed and Acknowledged
According to Law before two Justices of the Peace of the said
County bearing date the second day of August One thousand Seven
hundred and Seventeen for the Considerations in the same deed
Menconed Sold and Convey'd unto the said Peter Carmack his
heirs and assignes for Ever a Tract of Land in the same deed Men-
coned Containing four hundred & twenty seven Acres of Land with
the Appurtenances And Whereas the said deed was not Recorded
According to the Directions of the Act of Assembly in such Cases
Provided that by that Omission the Land Intended to be thereby
Convey'd doth not pass to the said Peter and his heirs according to
the true Intent and Meaning of the parties and that the said Henry
Gilder who by a new deed Could Supply the af^d Defect is Either
Deceased or Departed out of the province wherefore the said Peter
hath Humbly besought this Present Generall Assembly to Relieve him
in the Premisses and prayd that it may be Enacted And be it Enacted
by the R^t Honble the Lord Prop^ry by and with the Advice & Consent
of his Lordships Governour and the Upper and Lower houses of
Assembly and the Authority of the same that it shall and may be
Lawfull for the Clerk of Cecill County at any time within Six Months
from the end of this present Session of Assembly and the said Clerk
is hereby Authorized and Required at the request of the said Peter
Carmack to Enroll the said deed in the usuall form among the Land
Records of Cecill County And be it further Enacted that the said

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Peter Carmack his heirs and assignes shall by Vertue of such En-
rollment and this Act have as good and Effectual an Estate in the
said Land with the Appurtenances to all Intents and purposes as if
the said Deed of Bargain and Sale had been Enrolled within Six
months after the Execution thereof any Law Statute useage or
Custom to the Contrary Notwithstanding Saveing to his Most
Sacred Majesty the R^t Honble the Lord Prop^ry their heirs and Suc-
cessors and all bodies Politick & Corporate and all others not Men-
coned in this Act their Severall and Respective Rights.

p. 182

An Act for the Naturalization of Peter Montgomery of Charles
County Planter and his Children
Be it Enacted by the R^t Honble the Lord Prop^ry by and with the
advice & Consent of his Lordships Governor and the Upper and
Lower house of Assembly and the Authority of the same that Peter
Montgomery of Charles County a native of france and his Children
already born Viz. Francis and John Baptista Montgomery and
Every of them shall from hence forth be adjudged Reputed and taken
as Naturall born people of this Province of Maryland and that they
and Every of them by the Authority af^d be Enabled and adjudged to

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