78 Assembly Proceedings, February — March 1638/9.

Liber
C & W H

shall Send one man completely armed for every such three
men and two men for every five and so proportionably to such
place as shall be appointed or notified by the Commander or
high Constable or other Officer of the hundred and the house
houlders within S^t Maries hundred Shall send there men as
afore to the Chappell yard neere the fort except any other
place be appointed by the Leiutenant Generall or the Captain
for the time being. And every householder delaying to Send
such man or men according to the order aforesaid for longer
time then the man or men might Conveniently have been sent
shall be fined in the pretoriall Court according to the nature of
the offence or Contempt This Act to Continue till the end of
the next Generall Assembly

An Act For a ferry upon S^t
Georges River

Be it Enacted By the Lord Proprietarie of this Province of
and with the advice and approbation of the Freemen of the
same that for the more safe and commodious passage of people
to and fro over S^t Georges River the Leiuten^t Generall shall
appoint such person or persons as he shall think fitest to keep

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and Continue or cause to be kept a ferry boat or boats
for that purpose which said boat or boats shall cary or fetch
from one side of the River to the other any one or more
persons desireing or demanding to be carried or fetched over
at all hours of the day between day break and twylight And
the owner of the said ferry boat or boats dwelling on one side
of the River shall appoint or sett up some marke or Signe by
which any one demanding to be fetched over may Signifie
such his or their demand And for the defraying of the charge
of the said Ferry every person pasing in the said ferry boate or
boats shall pay to the owner thereof one pound of Tobacco for
every such passage or waftage over and if it be a Child or
Servant the Master or parent of the said Child or Servant im-
ploying him or her upon his business is to pay the said waftage
hire
And no person whatsoever other then the owner of the said
ferry boat or boats so as afore appointed or his Servant or
Servants shall waft or passe any person over the said River
for any gift reward or hire whatsoever upon paine of. paying
such damages to the said owner as the Judge of the County
Court shall think fitt And all questions causes & defaults
whatsoever touching the said Ferry and the due keeping there-
of by the owner of the said boats and the levying of duties
toward the meinteinance thereof shall be decided and censured