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LAWS OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND.

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An Act to carry into effect certain unexecuted agreements, made by the late John Hodges Winsloe, Esquire, deceased, for the sale and leasing of certain parts of his Estate in this

Colony. [Passed April 3, 1865. I-IEREAS John Hodges Winsloe, late of Trelleck, in the County of Monmoth, Eng- land, Esquire, deceased, died seized of certain Lands on Townships Numbers Twenty-four and Thirty-three, in this Island, certain parts of which Lands the said John Hodges Winsloe had in his lifetime, by his several Agents and Attorneys on this Island, settled with Tenants under agreements for Leases thereof for nine hundred and ninty-nine years, and also for shorterterms, but which Leases were not executed by the said John Hodges VVin- sloe in his lifetime; had also through his said Agents and Attorneys agreed with sundry parties for the sale in fee simple of certain parts or portions of the said Lands, but deeds of conveyance thereof were not executed in the lifetime ofthe said John Hodges ‘Winsloe:

And whereas the said John Hodges Winsloe, by his last. \Vill and Testament, without making any provision therein for carrying out the said agree- ments entered into in his lifetime, devised Two thousand acres, part ofhis said land, to his son John \Vinsloe for his life, with remainder to his children, as Tenants in Common, in fee with cross executory devises and limitations between them, which said John Winsloe has, since the death of the Testator

Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, April 12, 1865.

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his Father, been adjudged a person of unsound mind, and a Committee of his personal Estate has been duly appointed according to the Laws ofthis Is-

land. And the said John Hodges Winsloe did also by his said Will devise Three thousand acres, part ofhis said Lands, to his son Henry \Vinsloe for his life, with like remainder to his children, as in the devise to his said son John, is mentioned and set forth, which said Henry Winsloe is since deceased, and bath left four infant children, him surviving.

And Whereas the said John Hodges Winsloe, did also by his said \Vill, devise one thousand acres, part of his said Lands, together with one equal half part of all the rest of his said Lands on the said Townships numbers Twenty-four and Thirty-three, to his son Alfred Winsloe for his life, with like re- mainder to his children, as in the devise to his said son John Winsloe the other equal half part of his said Lands, the said Testator, devised, to his two daughters Amelia Evans and Anne Winsloe, now Anne Smith, wife of William Sydney Smith, in fee simple. And in as much as the aforesaid Tenants and settlers on the said Township Lands have, on the faith of their said agreements for long leases and purchase, made valuable improvements on their said farms, and for as much as there is no provision made or power reserved in the said \Vill of the said John Hodges Winsloe to carry out the said agreements for lease and sale, which subject the said Tenants to great uncertainty in their Ten- ures, and much delay and expenses must necessarily be incurred before the said agreements by the ordinary rules of Law or Equity can be carried out, although the parties interested are willing that justice shall be done in the premises; it is there- fore deemed expedient and proper that power be given to the parties hereinafter named for the pur-