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Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly January 1637/8-September 1664
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Assembly Proceedings, April 1658. 375


afterwards yearely, and in case such person or persons who
haue such Estates in their hands do not at the tymes and places
aforesaid present the Inventory and accompt of such Estates as
aforesaid then that the whole buisness be sent vp to the provinciall
court And the Offender to be at that Courts discression which
Court vpon neglect of exhibiting as aforesaid, or not good

U. H.
Journal
1659-69

improvement made of the said Estates shall either suffer the
said Estates to continue in the same persons Custody vppon
better caution and security or remoue the same into the hands
of some able and discreete persons vpon the Cautions aforesaid
Provided that noe Child be putt into the hands of Overseers of
a Contrary ludgment then that of their deceased Parents. This
Act to continue for three yeares or to the End of the next
Gennerall Assembly

The Vpper howse The Burgesses haue assented
haue assented Thomas Turner Cler.
Philip Calvert

p. 64

9 An act concearning Drunkness

Bee it Enacted by the Lord Proprietary by and with the con-
sent of this present Gennerall Assembly that hee that shalbe
lawfully convicted of drunkeness by two sufficient Wittnesses
shall for the first offence be sett in the stocks Six houres, or
pay one hundred pounds of Tobacco, halfe to the Informer, the
other halfe to the Lord Proprietary, ffor the Second offence
being convicted as aforesaid to be publickly whipt or pay three
pounds of Tobacco as aforesaid. Being the third tyme con-
victed as aforesaid, the Offender shalbe adiudged a Person
infamous, and thereby made vncapable of giving vote, or bear-
ing Office within this Province during the space of three yeares
next after such Conviction. This Act to continue for three
yeares; or to the End of the next Gennerall Assembly and noe
longer.

The Burgesses haue The Vpper howse
assented haue assented
Thomas Turner Cler. Philip Calvert


10 An act concearning Ferries

Whereas the Inconvenience for want of fferries in this Pro-
vince is voted burthensome to the Countrey, Bee it Enacted
by the Lord Proprietary by and with the consent of this present
Gennerall Assembly that Every County within this province
shall maintaine one fferry (the County of Kent onely Excepted)

P. 65



 
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