124 Assembly Proceedings, November 17-December 20, 1769.

No. 8
Liber R. G.
1769

p. 5
[A Private
Act.]

An Act for applying a Sum of Money in Bills of Credit to the use
therein mentioned

Whereas his Lordship the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary
has been pleased to appoint his Excellency Robert Eden Esq.^r his
Lordships Brother to be his Lieutenant Governor in and over this
his Province of Maryland, The General Assembly of this Province
to manifest their chearful Acquiesence in the said Appointment and
as a Testimony of their Respect for his Excellency do pray 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
Governor and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly and the
Authority of the same That the Committee appointed by the Upper
and Lower Houses of Assembly in their Present Session to inspect
the Proceedings of the Commissioners appointed by Virtue of the
Act for the Payment of the Public Claims for emitting Bills of
Credit and for other Purposes therein mentioned shall and they are
hereby impowered to pay to the order of his Excellency the said
Robert Eden Esquire out of the Bills of Credit now in the said
Office Eight Hundred Dollars which his Excellency is by the said
General Assembly requested to accept as an Instance of their Regard
& respect for him

By the Lower House of
Assembly Dec.^r 13.^th 1769.
Read & assented to.
Signed by order.
T. Wright Cl. lo: ho:

On behalf of the Right
Honourable the Lord Pro-
prietary of this Province.
I Will this be a Law
Rob.^t Eden

By the Upper House of
Assembly Dec.^r 13.^th 1769.
Read & Assented to.
Signed by order.
U Scott. Cl. Up: Ho:

Great Seal in
Wax Appendant

No. 9

An Act to secure to Thomas Smyth the Right in a Lot of Land in
Chester Town

[A Private
Act.]

Whereas Thomas Smyth of Chester Town in Kent County, Mary
Granger Mother of William Granger and the said William Granger
have by their Petition to this General Assembly set forth That the
said William Granger is seised and Possessed of a certain Lot of
Ground lying and being in Chester Town aforesaid known & Dis-
tinguished in the Plott of the said Town by the Number sixteen as
one of the Water Lots of the said Town which of itself is not of
much Value but being Convenient to the said Thomas to erect and
build a House on, the said William Granger being now but Twenty
Years of Age had with the Advice and Consent of his said Mother
agreed and [consented] to sell the same to the same Thomas for the
Valuable Consideration of one Hundred Pounds secured to be paid
to the said William. In Consequence whereof the said Thomas
Smyth hath erected on the said Lot a Large and Valuable Brick
House and Kitchen which he was Desirous of finishing and com-