LIQUORS IMPORTED. of the Eastern Shore; and the said Treasurer with the Assembly.  And the said Naval Officer shall make Oath, to use his utmost Power to cause this Act effectually to be put in Execution:  And a Certificate of such Oath taken, shall be entered in the Council Book. Ibid.  §. 6.     14.  Every Naval Officer, before Entry of any Rum. Wine or Spirits liable to Duty, shall require and receive an Invoice (upon Oath of the Person applying to make Entry thereof) of the Quantity of Wine Gallons  which the Cask then imported Gauge, together with their Marks and Numbers.  1735, ch. 6, §. 4.     15.  Persons presuming to land any such Liquors from on board any Vessel in this Province, &c. before Invoice delivered and Entry made as aforesaid, shall forfeit the same, or the Value:  One Half to the Support of Government, the other to the Person seizing or suing for the same.  Ibid.     See Country Bottoms, 2. LITURGY.  See Church of England.  Vestry, 26. LIVERY and SEIZIN:     ----Not necessary where Sales and Grants of any Lands, &c. are made by Deed indented and inrolled according to Law.  1715, ch. 47, §. 3. LORD PROPRIETARY.     1.  His Lordship's just Title and Right to this Province,  as true and Absolute Proprietary thereof by the Charter, Recognized and Acknowledged; together with all his Lordship's Royal Rights, Jurisdictions, Authorities, and Preheminences granted thereby, so far as they do not in any Sort infringe or prejudice the just and lawful Liberties or Privileges of the Free-born Subjects of England.  1650, ch. 23.     2.  All Debts due to the Lord Proprietary, or his Heirs, shall be paid and satisfied, within the Province, before any other Debts.  1650, ch. 28.     3.  All Fines, Forfeitures and Penalties, which by former Provincial Laws are made payable to, or recoverable  by the King, or in his Majesty's Name, shall henceforward be payable to the Lord Proprietary, his Heirs and Successors; and recoverable by him or them, in his or their Name, to the same Uses as by those Laws are expressed.  1716, ch. 3, §. 2.     4.  Where such Fines are appropriated to the Support of Government, his Lordship's Government of this Province shall be thereby understood, and no other. Ibid.  §. 3.     5.  In all Suits, Indictments, Informations, &c. for any such Fines, &c. his Lordship's Name or Title, or of his Lordship's Heirs, &c. shall be used instead of the name or Title of his Majesty, as fully, to all Intents and Purposes, as if such Name or Title of his Lordship, or of his heirs, &c. had been expressly mentioned in such Acts, instead of the Name or Title of the King.  Ibid.  §. 4.     6.  Such Alteration of Name, Stile or Title, in such Suits, &c. shall not be assignable for Error therein, but all such Exceptions are hereby added.  Ibid.  §. 5.     7.  No Action, Suit, Bill, Plaint, Prosecution, or Judicial Proceedings, whatsoever, shall determine, be discontinued, or put without Day, by the Death or  Demise of the Lord Proprietary, or any of his Heirs or Successors, who shall have legal Right to the Government of this Province; but the Process, Pleas, &c. in every such Action, &c. shall stand good, effectual and available, &c. in the same Manner, Form, State, &c. as if such proprietary had continued in full Life,. &c.  1751, ch. 27, §. 6.     8.  All Process and Judicial Proceedings that shall hereafter be pursued in the Time of any other than the Proprietary, at the Time of the Pursuit of the original or former Process, shall be made in the Name of the Proprietary for the Time being, having legal Right to the Government, after Proclamation, &c. and no Variance between the Names of the Proprietaries

LORD PROPRIETARY. shall be material, as to Default in the Process. Ibid.     9.  All Writs, Precepts, Actions, Suits, Pleas, Process, &c. hereafter Executed in the Name of any Proprietary, having legal Right to the Government, after the Death or Demise of such Proprietary and before due Proclamation thereof, shall be good, effectual, and available in Law, to all Intents and Purposes, such Death, &c. notwithstanding.  Ibid.     10.  The Commission, Power, or Authority of the Governor for the Time being, shall not be dissolved by the Death of the Proprietary; but such Lieutenant Governor shall continue and act as such, until he be lawfully removed, discharged, or his Commission superseded or determined, by the next Successor.  Ibid.  §. 7.     11.  All Judges, Justices, &c. and other Officers, shall continue and act in their respective Offices, &c. notwithstanding the Death of the Proprietary, until they shall be removed, &c. by the next Successor, or by the Lieutenant Governor.  Ibid.     See Administrators, 22.  Agents, 2.  Gold and Silver,         1.  Governor, 3.  Limitation of Actions, 8.          Port Duties, per Tot.  Protestant Interest, 9.         Uncertain Goods, per Tot.  War, 1.  Fines, 3, 4. LUMBER.  See Guardians, 9.   M.   MAGISTRATES.     1.  The Courts are authorized and required to observe the Demeanor of all Practitioners of the Law before them, as well as all Ministerial Officers and Others using indecent Liberties, &c. and to punish the same by Suspension of such Practitioners either perpetually, or for a Time; or to Fine such Practitioners, Officers or Others, not exceeding 4000 lb Tobacco in the superior, nor 2000 lb Tobacco in the inferior Courts.  1719, ch. 4, §. 2.     2.  Single Magistrates are, in like Manner, to observe the Demeanour of Persons coming before them, in the Execution of their Office; and in Case of indecent Behaviour towards them, or Contempt of their  Authority, may inform the Court; who are impowered to call such Offenders before them, without any Formality in Law, and punish them by Fine not exceeding 1000 lb Tobacco, by Imprisonment not exceeding Two Days, or by setting in the Stocks not above Two Hours.  Ibid.  §. 3.     3.  The Fines by this Act shall be applied by the Court, towards maintaining a Public School in the County where such Offence is committed.  Ibid.     4.  This Act shall not lessen the Authority heretofore vested by law, in the several Courts.  Ibid.  §. 4.     See Attorneys, 1.  Cursing, &c. per Tot.  Jurors, 4.         Lord Proprietary, 11.  Marriage, 1, 2, 12.         Militia, 2.  Tobacco Run, 4. MANIFEST.  See Tobacco Inspected, 10. MANUMISSION of SLAVES.     1.  No Persons shall give Freedom to any Slaves disabled to Work, &c. but in all such Cases, the Owners at their own proper Cost, shall support such Slaves, during their natural Lives, in Food and Cloathing, fitting and needful.  1752, ch. 1, §. 2.     2.  No Person by any verbal Order, Last Will, or other Writing in his last Sickness, shall give Freedom to any Slave:  But every such Order, Will, &c. shall be void, so far as relates to such Freedom only.  Ibid. §. 3.     3.  Owners, &c. of Slaves, incapable of Labour thro' Age, Sickness or Accident, who shall neglect to provide necessary Food and Cloathing for such old or disabled Slaves; or who shall suffer any Slaves whatsoever, to depart from their Habitations or Quarters, and wander about Begging, so as to become burthensome to others; may, on Presentment of the Grand