Assembly Proceedings, October 26, 1686. 139

Pocomoke, in Dorchester County now comonly called Dor-
chester, on Morgans land neere the head of ffishing Creek in
little Choptanck the Towne in Baltemore County in Middle

Lib. W. H.

Riuer on the land of Cornowalls or Loakins, and the Towne
on stumpt neck neer Chingemuxen on the land late of M^r
Reddishare by & with the Authority aforesaid hereby declared
to be anulled & Vntowned & forever after to be & remaine
vnto the former respectiue owner or owners their heires &
assignes for euer in such plight & condicon of Estate as they
were before the making of the said former Acts as if such Act
or Acts or either of them had neuer been made And lastly
be it Enacted th^t the aforesaid two severall Acts & every
clause matter or thing in the same conteyned (not altered by
this p^rsent Act) shall stand & be in as full force & virtue
as the same ever was before the makeing hereof provided
allwayes & itt is the true intent & meaning hereof th^t all
Tobaccoes of the growth of this Province & other comodities
brought to the seuerall Ports & Townes in this & the fore-
menconed two Acts in this bill recited to be sold shipped of
or Exported as aforesaid & w^ch are to be for th^t purpose
weighed shall be weighed by the Towne scales onely & not
otherwise vnder the paine and penalty of the forfiture of Tenn
shillings sterling for every hogshead of Tobaccoe or the vallue
of a hogshead of Tobaccoe in other goods & comodities
brought to the Townes & Ports aforesaid for the End & pur-
pose aforesaid and not weighed at the Towne scales as afore-
said one halfe thereof to the Right Hono^rble the Lord Propry and
the other halfe to the Officer appointed in such Towne or Port
to keep the said Scales.

An Act for Reviueing the Temporary
Lawes of this Province

p. 288

Be it Enacted by the Right Hon^rble the Lord Prop^ry by &
with the Advice & consent of the vper & lower houses of this
Generall Assembly and the Authority of the same That one
Act at a Gen^rall Assembly held at S^t Johns the seuenth day of
Aprill 1661 Entituled an Act concerning the hight of fences
one other Act made the same Assembly Entituled an Act for
Conveyance of all Letters concerning the state & publique
affaires one other Act made at a Gen^rall Assembly held at
S^t Maries the fifteenth day of Septemb^r 1663 & there con-
tinued vntill the third day of October following & from thence
adjurnd vntill the second Tuesday in Septemb^r 1664. Enti-
tuled an Act prohibiting arrests vpon Saboath dayes & dayes

p. 289