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to serve as Delegates to the Porte of Annapolis by means
whereof the Court to be holden on the 2^d Tuesday in March
Ano Dni 1697 according to Act of Assembly and their Comis-
sion the said Justices on the said recited day not meeting to
adjourn whereby many inconveniencys and discomoditys may
happen to the severall Suitors to the said Court the Severall
pleas process and proceedings depending in the said Court
being by that means discontinued and put without day to the
great Loss & Damages to the Suitors aforesaid for remedy
whereof and that the sevrall Writts, pleas, process and pro-
ceedings of the said Court may be revived resolved Con-
tinued and Be in full force and Virtue as they were before the
said discontinuance hapened the Delegates of this present
Generall Assembly do pray that it may be Enacted, And be it
Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Maty by and with the
Advice and Consent of this present Generall Assembly and
the Authority of the same That all and singular the Writts
pleas process and proceedings and all other matters and
things which did depend upon the same or had any relation
thereunto which were in the said Court depending and undis-
cust att any time before the said second Tuesday in March
aforesaid, and by the not meeting of the said Justices were
discontinued and put without Day are hereby Continued

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revived and restored and to all Intents and purposes whatso-
ever put in as full Vigour Strength force and Virtue as if the
said Discontinuance or putting without day of ihe Writes pleas
processes and proceedings aforesaid never had been or hap-
pened and to the end the severall and respective suitors to the
said County Court may have sufficient Intelligence and that
the sev^rall persons who were bound by recognizance to Appear
att the said County Court may also have notice of this Act
and that they may keep their duty of makeing their severall
and respective Appearances att the next County Court holden
for the said County by Act of Assembly Be it further Enacted
by the Authority afores^d by and with the Advice and Consent
aforesaid That the Sherriffe of the said County do Imediatly
make proclamation of this Act and the severall matters and
things therein Conteined in the most publicque and Con-
venient places within his County.

An Act for the better Division of S^t Paules & Shrewsbury
Parishes.

Be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Maty by and
with the Advice and Consent of this present Generall Assem-
bly That from and after the tenth day of June Ano Domini

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1698 that all that Land and Inhabitants in Chester River

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