An Acte for the Reviueing of certaine lawes
within this Province
Whereas at a Session of Generall Assembly held at St
Leonards in Calvert County in this Province of maryland the
twenty Seaventh day of Aprill in the yeare of our Lord God
One thousand Six hundred fifty and Eight certaine Acts or
lawes were then and there assented vnto by both howses, and
Enacted for lawes by Josias Fendall Esqr then Governor of the
Province in the Lord Proprietarys name Lord and Proprietary
thereof which said Acts are all of them Expired being temporary
lawes yett for that the said Acts haue been Judged by dureing
the tyme of their Lymitacon and found very necessary and
Convenient and noe wayes hurtefull either to the Inhabi-
tants or Merchants tradeing hither but contrarywise much
Conduceing to the Publike Good of this Province It is there-
fore Enacted And be it Enacted by the authority of this prsent
generall Assembly that the Acte entituled an Acte concerning
the Gage of tobacco hhds And that other Acte alsoe entituled
an Acte for the killing of wolves And likewise the Acte Entituled
an Acte prohibiting Ground leaues and Seconds Alsoe an
other Acte entituled an acte concerning a Register of Births
marryages and burialls And that Acte entitu[led] an Acte con-
cerning Servants that have Bastards And the Acte entituled
an Acte for the publicacon of ma[rry]ages And that other Acte
entituled an Acte for t[he] Advancemt of Childrens estate
Be all and every of th[em] as they are here rehearsed and Sett
downe renewed a[nd] stand in force within this Province
according to the lymitacon in the said severall Acts expressed
This Acte to endure for three yeares or to the end of the next
Generall Assembly.
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