"Resolved, as the opinion of this committee, that said petition, stating that the said John Penny is the only child of Mary Penny (now dead) who intermarried with a certain John Scath upwards of 50 years ago, that the said John Scath died intestate, seised of a tract of land in the county of Spotsylvania, without leaving any relation in this county capable of inheriting his estate: and praying that the Commonwealth's right to said land may be vested in the petitioner is reasonable."