Assembly Proceedings, May 8-22, 1695. 211

An Additional Act to the Act for Portes.

Be it Enacted by the King and Queen's most Excellent
Maties by and with the Advice and Consent of this present

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Generall Assembly and the Authority of the same That the
Town Land att Oxford in Talbott County Constituted and
Appointed a Town and Porte by a former Act of Assembly
made att a Session of Assembly begun and held att the City
of S^t Marys the one and Twentieth day of September in the
Year of our Lord one Thousand six hundred ninety and four
be again Surveyed and layd out, That is to say some time
before the last day of September next before the Comissioners
in the afore recited Act nominated and Appointed bounding
the same att Low Water Mark including the Island and so to
the old bounded Tree att the Southermost part of the neck
and that as well in the s^d Porte and Town as in the Porte and
Town of Ann Arundell there be one or more places laid out
and reserved as the Comiss^rs of the respective Portes shall
think fitt for the building of Ships and other Vessellsand that
the Officers of the Lord Proprietary for receiving the Dutys
due and payable to his s^d Lordship be hereby obliged by
themselves or Deputys thereunto Authorized and appointed
to reside att the said Ports & Towns for the dispatch of Ships
and other Vessells Entring & Clearing att such Ports and
Towns as aforesaid And be it also Enacted by the Authority
aforesaid That the Two ports of Ann Arundel and Oxford for
the future shall be Called known and distinguished by the
names or Appellations of Annapolis and William Stadt. That
is to say the Porte of Ann Arundell to be Called by the name
of Annapolis and Oxford by the name of William Stadt and
that there be purchaced to the said Town of William Stadt

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one hundred acres of Land adjacent to the said Town for a
Comon or Pasture for the benefitt of all persons within this
Province that shall repaire to the said Town and that the
same be laid out; as above Expressed and that Six Acres of the
same be reserved for publick buildings.

An Act for Naturalization of Mathias Mathiason, als. Free-
man, Peter Golley, John & Joseph Goutee and Joseph and
John Sons of the s^d Joseph Goutee & Leonard Camperson

Be it Enacted by the King and Queens most Excellent Maties
by and with the Advice and Consent of this Present Generall
Assembly and the Authority of the same That Mathias Mathia-
son als Freeman of Cecill County, Peter Golley; John &
Joseph Goutee and Joseph & John sons of the said Joseph
Goutee and Leonard Camperson of Talbott County within
this Province Be from henceforth reputed and taken as

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