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said and well Weighing and Considering which may be fit and
Convenient Places within the same Province for the Same do
Ordain erect and Constitute these places hereafter mentioned
to be Sea Ports Harbours Creeks and Places for discharg and

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unlading of Goods and Merchandizes out of Ships Boats and
other Vessels and that no Ships Boats or other Vessels shall
discharge or unlade any Goods or merchandizes in any other
place or places within this Province whatsoever under the
pains and penalties hereafter in this declaration mentioned and
expressed that is to say at East Saint Marys in S^t Marys
County at Guy Whites Land and at William Berries Land in
Battle Creeke in Patuxent River in Calvert County at Charles
Town in his Lordships Forest nigh Humphry Warrens in
Wicocomico River and at the Land lately purchased by In^o
England and Benjamin Rozer nigh Edmund Lindseys in Port
Tobacco in Charles County At Richard Actons Land and at
Herring Creeke in Ann Arundell County at the Land late of
Thomas Samson in Bush River and at the Land late of M^r
Hatton in Sassafrax River in Baltimore County at the Land of
Ionathan Sybery at the Mouth of Wye River on the Eastern
Side thereof at Corsica Creek in Chester River and at Tradaven
Creeke in Choptank River in Talbot County at Morgans
Plantation in Morgans Creek in Kent County at deep point
at Randal Revels in Somerset County and we do hereby
further order Ordain and declare that no masters of Ships
Boats or other Vessels whatsoever Coming hither for Merchan-
dizing or trade shall unlade or put on Shoar any Goods or
Merchandizes whatsoever at any other place harbour or Creek
within this Province until the said Goods or merchandizes
have been first delivered or put on shore at the Ports afore-
said or some of them upon the penalty of suffering one whole
Years Imprisonment without Bail or mainprize any Law usage
or Custom to the Contrary notwithstanding and if any Master
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Persons shall sell to any Inhabitant of this Province any Goods
or Merchandizes whatsoever otherwise then in this Ordinance
or declaration is expressed that the Inhabitant or Inhabitants
so buying the same may at his or their election refuse or deny
Payment for the same and the Party so selling the same shall
not have against the Buyer any Action of debt Accompt Tres-
pass upon the Case or any other Action whatsoever in any of
his Lordships Courts whatsoever within this Province but shall
be utterly barred therefrom and all and every Person or
Persons whatsoever are hereby strictly required and Com-
manded to yield their due Obedience unto this Ordinance edict
and declaration as they will avoid the pains herein expressed
mentioned and declared Given under the Great Seal of the

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