102 LAWS OF MARYLAND—1753.
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present session of assembly, it shall not be lawful for any person
or persons to put or lay, or to permit or allow his or their
servants or slaves, or any servants or slaves under his or their
direction, to carry, put or throw into the said river, or any of the
navigable branches thereof, any earth, sand or dirt, or to lay or
put on the beach or shore of the said river below common high-
water mark any earth, sand or dirt, unless such earth, sand or
dirt, be first well secured by stone walls, dove-tailed log pens,
or otherwise, so that no such earth, sand or dirt, may wash
into the said river, or navigable brandies thereof, to fill up the
channel, or any way injure the navigation of the said river, or
navigable branches thereof, as aforesaid; and that every person
or persons so offending shall, for every such offence, forfeit and
pay the sum of five pounds current money, to be recovered
before one magistrate, as in case of small debts, one moiety of
such forfeiture to the use of his lordship the lord proprietary, for
the support of government, the other to him, her or them, that
will sue for the same.
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A SUPPLEMENTARY ACT to the act, entitled, "An act for the relief of credi-
tors in England against bankrupts who have imported any goods into this
province not accounted for. |
Assign-
ments, &c.
not effec-
tual, &c. |
Be it enacted, by the right honourable the Lord Proprietary,
by and with the advice and consent of his lordship's Governor,
and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the autho-
rity of the same, That no assignment, assurance, conveyance,
deed, or any other writing whatsoever, of any goods, chattels,
effects, debts, lands, tenements or hereditaments whatsoever,
that shall at any time hereafter be made or executed by any
person or persons trading, or that shall hereafter trade, to this
province, and that shall reside in Great Britain, or elsewhere,
out of this province, at the time of making or executing such
assignment, assurance, conveyance, deed, or other writing
whatsoever, shall be of any force, virtue or effect, at law or in
equity, until the person or persons to whom such assignment,
assurance, conveyance, deed, or other writing whatsoever, shall
be made or executed, or his or their agent or agents, attorney or
attorneys in fact, or such other person or persons who shall act
by commission or direction from him or them, shall give his or
their bond or obligation, with such security therein as shall be
approved of and determined by the chancellor of this province
for the time being, to pay and satisfy all and every the debt and
debts which such person or persons, making or executing such
assignment, assurance, conveyance, deed or other writing, shall
or may owe at the time of entering into such bond or obligation
as aforesaid, to all and every person and persons living or resi- |
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