332 Assembly Proceedings, Sept. 5-Oct. 3, 1704.

Lib. L. L.
No. 64.

of the Casq and be thereof Convict in manner aforesaid he
or they so convict as aforesaid shall forfeit for every Hogs-
head or Hogsheads not having the weight sett thereon as
aforesaid the Sume of one hundred pounds of Tobacco as
aforesaid to the uses aforesaid to be recovered as aforesaid.
And for the better ascertaining what Tare shall be allowed
upon Tobacco Hogsheads
Be it Enacted that the Receiver of any Hogshead of To-
bacco shall pay and allow to the Owner or Owners thereof for
each Hogshead received the Sume of forty pounds of To-
bacco deducting the same out of the Gross weight of each
hogshead markr on the bulge and no more Any other Act
to the Contrary notwithstanding.

Septemb^r 23^d 1704 September 26^th 1704

Read and assented to by Read and assented to by her
the house of Dell. Majestys hon^ble Councill
W Taylard Cl h D. W Bladen Cl Concil.

Maryland Octob^r 3^d 1704

On behalf of her Ma^ty &c I will this be a Law
Jo: Seymour

p. 136

An Act for the Securing persons 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 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 at a Generall
Assembly held at the Ridge in Ann Arundell County the
second day of October One Thousand Six hundred Eighty
three Intituled an Act for Advancement of Trade and the other
Act made at a Generall Assembly held at the City of Saint
Marys the first day of April Sixteen hundred Eighty four Inti-
tuled an Additionall and Supplementary Act to the Act for
Advancement of Trade and the other Act made at a Generall
Assembly held at the City of Saint Marys the twenty seventh
day of October One thousand six hundred Eighty six Intituled
a farther Additionall Act to the Act for Advancement of Trade
and the Supplementary Act of the Same And one other Act
made at a Session of Assembly begunn and held at the Citty
of Saint Marys the twenty first day of September Anno
Domini Sixteen hundred Ninety four Intituled an Act for
Erecting Ann Arundell and Oxford Towns into ports and
Towns as by the severall Acts of Assembly remaining upon
Record in the Secretarys Office of this Province may appear