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being well Informed thereof and willing (as in good Reason
and Conscience obliged) to see the Will of the Dead performed
do pray that it may be Enacted. And be it Enacted by the
Queens most Excellent Majty by and with the Advice and Con-
sent of her Majtys Governour Councill and Assembly of this
province and the authority of the same That the afd Last will
& Testament of the said Colonel John Contee Recorded as afd
shall by the authority of this Assembly and by Vertue of this
Act in all Courts and before all Judges be Held deemed
reputed and taken to be the Last will and Testament of the
afd Colonell John Contee as if the same had been by him in
his Life time actually Signed Sealed published and declared in
the presence of the three wittnesses who have proved the same
in Comon forme & that the Severall Devises and bequests
therein specified shall be deemed taken & adjudged to be of
full force & Efficacy to all Intents and purposes whatsoever to
intitle the severall Persons therein named and their heires &
Assignes to the Goods Chattells Lands & Tenemts therein &
thereby to them Expressed to be bequeathed & devised not-
withstanding the Defect of the same Will not being Signed
Sealed published & declared by the said Coll Contee any Law
Statute Vsage or Custome to the Contrary in any wise not-
withstanding.
By the house of Del 15th December 1708.
Read and assented to by the house of Del,
Signed p order Richd Dallam Cl: ho: Del :
December the 16th 1708.
Then was this bill read assented to by her Majtys honble
Council.
Signed p order W Bladen Cl Council.
December 17th 1708.
On the behalf of our Sovereigne Lady Ann Queen of
Great Brittain &c. I will this be a Law
Jo: Seymour
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