366 Assembly Proceedings, August 19-Scptcmber 6, 1731.

Session
Laws

to pass the Estate in the said Land to the Aforesaid William Ennalls
his heirs & Assignes as if the Deed from the said Mitchell to the said
Ward had been duly Executed and Recorded any Defect or Omis-
sion in the Same Deed or any Law ussage or Custome to the Contrary
notwithstanding Provided the said Deed from Edward Mitchell to
John Ward shall be Recorded in the Provinciall Records or the
Records in Kent County within Six months from the End of this Ses-
sion of Assembly Saving to his Most Sacred Majesty his heirs and
Successors the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary his heirs and
Successors and all Bodies Politick and Corporate and all Others
not mentioned in this Act their Severall & Respective Rights.

Chap, XIV
p. 6

An Act to Supply Some Defects in a Deed of Bargain and Sale from
William Green Senior of Dorchester County to Colonel John
Ryder of the Same County of three Tracts of Land Viz. the
One Called Marsh Island, One Called Greens Priviledge. and the
other called Greens Adventure all Lying and being in the
County Aforesaid.

Whereas the said William Green Senior of Dorchester County
by his Deed of Bargain and Sale for the Consideration therein men-
tioned Sold and Conveyed to the said John Ryder three Tracts or
Parcells of Lands Viz. one Tract of Land Called Marsh Island,
One Other Called Greens Priviledge, & the Other Called Greens
Adventure all which Tracts are Lying & being in Dorchester County
on the East side of Chesapeak Bay, and on the North Side of Nanti-
coke River and are now in Possession of the said Ryder which said
Deed was by Virtue of a Letter of Attorney bearing Date the Twenty
first Day of December Anno Domini Seventeen hundred and Twenty
and Proved by the Oaths of two Credible witnesses to have been
Sealed and Delivered by the said William Green Senior Impowering
Thomas Hicks Senior of Dorchester County to acknowledge the
same which said Thomas Hicks by Virtue of the said Letter of
attorney Did before Henry Ennalls and Peter Taylor Gentlemen,
Two of his Lordships Justices of the peace for the said Dorchester
County on the Twenty second Day of December in the year aforesaid
Acknowledge the Same Deed to the said John Ryder. And whereas
the said Deed hath been Recorded amongst the Records of Dor-
chester County but through the negligence of the Clerk of the said
County Court hath been Omitted to be marked on the Back thereof
the time of the said Deed being recorded as the Law in such Casses
requires which Omission of the said Clerks and the said Deed not

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being Acknowledged by the Said William Green in his proper Person
may Render the Title of the said John Rider to the said Three Tracts
of Land Disputable for Prevention whereof it is prayed that it may
be Enacted And be it Enacted By the Right Honourable the Lord
Proprietary by and with the advice and Consent of his Lordships