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the said County Courts or to any other person or psons by them
from time to time appointed or by any other wayes or meanes
whatsoever sattisfie and make it appeare to the Comiss^rs of
the said severall & Respectiue County Courts that he or they
or his or their Servants or workemen haue made or Caused to
bee made any quantity of flax or hemp and so braked swinled
& made Merchantable & fitt for Sale as aforesaid. This Act
to Indure for seaven yeares from the 25^th day of December
now next Ensueing.

An Act against the Exportacon of wooll & old Iron

Whereas the exportacon of wooll and old Iron is generally
Conceived to be much prejudiciall to the Commonweath &
good of this province Bee it therefore Enacted by the Lord
Propry by & with the Consent of the vpper & Lower houses
of this present Generall Assembly that what pson or psons
soever shall Export or shipp on board to the Intent to Export
out of this Province either wooll or old Iron shall for every of
their offences in soe doeing pay as foll (Viz^t) for every pound

Lib. W. H.

of wooll fifty pounds of tob^o And for every pound of Iron tenn
pounds of Tobacco the one halfe of which said payments &
forfeitures shall be paid to the Informer & the other halfe to
the Lord Propry & this Act to Continue three yeares or to the
end of the next Generall Assembly.

An Act for Repareing the State house

Whereas an Act was made in the fforty Second year of the
Dominion of the R^tt hono^ble Caecilius absolute late Lord & Propry
of the Provinces of Maryland & Avalon Lord Baron of Balte-
more &c^a of noble memory Deceased for the Erecting &
Building a State House in the City of S^t Maries which said
State house for want of Repaireing gone very much to decay
and ruine Bee it Enacted by the R^tt hono^ble the Lord Propry by &
with the advice and Consent of the vpper and Lower houses of
this p^rsent Generall Assembly and the authority of the same,
that there be added in length to the wall of the north west
gable end ffive foot, which wall to be of the same thickness as
the wall now is & that there be built a brick Chimney at the
same end with one fire hearth below & another aboue. the
fire hearth below to be tenn foot from Jawine to Jawine and
the vpper hearth to be Eight foot from Jawine to Jawine &
that the said Chimneys' be built so, that neither of them cause
any of the Roomes to be smoaky, and likewise that the wall
of the Southwest Gable end be taken downe as farr as shall

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