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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

MAY TERM, 1748.
    Gilbert’s Lessee vs. Lee.
    Ejectment for part of His Lordship’s Manor, in Kent county. Special Verdict, finding a Proprietary Lease, dated the 20th of December 1745, for the land mentioned in the declaration, signed, sealed and deliver» ed, by Thomas Bladen, Benjamin Tasker and John Gilbert, and recorded in the records of Kent county. It is stated to be made “ between Benjamin Tasker, of the city of Annapolis, esquire, agent and receiver general of the right honourable the Lord Proprietary, for and oil behalf of the said Lord Proprietary of the one part, and John Gilbert of,” ike. reciting, that «whereas the said Benjamin Tasker is fully empowered and authorised, for and on behalf of the said Lord Proprietary, to demise, set, and to farm -let, any lands within all or any of his Lordship’s Manors in the Province of Maryland. Now this indenture witnessoth, that the said B. T. by virtue of the powers to him given by the Lord Proprietary aforesaid, for and on behalf of the said Lord Proprietary, and for and in consideration of the yearly rents and covenants hereafter mentioned, to be paid and performed by the said J. G. hath, with the consent and approbation of bis excellency Thomas Bladen, Esquire, Governor and Chancellor of Maryland, testified by his signing and sealing these presents, demised,” &c.
    That Thomas Bladen was at the time of executing the said lease Governor and Chancellor of Maryland, and that Benjamin Tasker at the same time was and yet is agent to the right honourable, the Lord Proprietary of this province. That the defendant, at the time of making the said lease, was in possession of the said land. That it does not appear that the lease ivas signed, sealed or delivered, on the land in question.
    The Provincial Court gave judgment on the specie al verdict for the plaintiff.
    
      George, for the Defendant.
    
      Colder, for the Plaintiff.