Assembly Proceedings, Oct. 3-19, 1695. ²79

benefit* or freedom in this Act given to the Inhabitants thereof
shall have hould or enjoy such benefitt and Priviledge as
aforesaid any longer then he she or they or his her or their
family shall in such Porte or Town Actually inhabitt and reside
Provided allways That it is the True intent and meaning of
this Act That no person or persons whatsoever as shall Trade
directly from England hither be Construed reputed Deemed
or taken as forreigners but That all and every such persons so
Tradeing directly from England to this Province as aforesaid
have free liberty in the Exportation of any Skins or furrs what-
soever or in the Exportation of any meat dryed or undryed
Equall with the Inhabitants of this Province paying such
Dutys & Impositions for the said Severall and respective
Comoditys as this Law hath Imposed upon the Inhabitants as
aforesaid and no more And be it also further Enacted, by the
Authority aforesaid by and with the advice and Consent afore-
said That one former Act of this Province Intituled an Act
for the laying an Imposition on Severall Comoditys Exported
out of this Province be and is hereby repealed Provided always
and it is the True intent and meaning of this Act That no
person or persons whatsoever haveing in any part Trans-
gressed against the afores^d Law dureing the time it was in
force being as yett undiscovered or unprosecuted for the same
shall have and receive any benefitt or Advantage by the repeale
thereof but that upon the Prosecution or discovery of such
person or persons so haveing Offended as afores^d the s^d Law
shall be pleadable in any Court within this Province where in
any plaint or information shall be brought ag^t any such person
or persons as aforesaid and judgem^t thereupon by the justices
of the said Court Given as the Nature of the Case shall require
in as full and ample maner as though the said Law att the
time of the Prosecution aforesaid were then Actually in force
any thing before mentioned or recited to the Contrary hereof
notwithstanding.

Lib. L. L. 2
p. 103

An Act for the Securing Person's Rights To Town Lands.

Whereas it is represented to this Generall Assembly That
Severall persons of this Province and others that have taken
up Lotts in Severall Town's Lands laid out and Surveyed for
Towns according to the directions of Severall Laws of this
Province heretofore made that is to say one Law made att a
Generall Assembly held att the Ridge in Ann Arundell
County the Second day of October one Thousand Six hun-
dred Eighty three Entituled an Act for Advancem^t of Trade

p. 104