Acts. 157

name of Queen Ann's County within the said province made
at A Session of Assembly begun and held at the Town and
Port of Annapolis Aprill the Second and ended the nineteenth
of the same Month Annoq Dui one Thousand Seven hundred
& Six the bounds of Severall County's on the Eastern Shoar
will be altered after the first Day of May one thousand seven
hundred and Seven and by Consequence the power and Au-
thority of the Sherriffs of the said Severall and respective
County's will be altered to the very great inconvenience and
Disorder of Publick Affairs for prevention whereof
Be it Enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Maj^ty by and
with the Advice and Consent of her Majty's Governour Coun-
cill and Assembly of this province and the Authority of the
same that the Severall Sheriffs of Talbot County Kent County
and Cecill, the former act Notwithstanding have power and
Authority to Levy by way of Execution all publick Levys fines
forfeitures and other publick Dues & all officers fees which
may be Lawfully levyed by way of Execution within any part
of the present bounds "of the said Severall County's Provided
such Execution be done before the last Day of June next En-
suing or before the present Comission of such the said now
Severall Sherriffs Expire according to which Terme shall first

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No. 64.

happen any former Law Usage or Custom to the Contrary
Notwithstanding.

Aprill the 10^th 1707 Read and Assented to by the house of
Delegates Signed p order. W Taylard Cl h D.

Aprill the 10^th 1707 Read and Assented to by Her Maj^ty'^s
hon^rble Councill & Signed p order.
W Bladen Cl Councill.

Aprill the 15^th 1707

On behalf of her Maj^ty Queen Anne of England &c.
I will This be a Law.
Jo: Seymour

An Act to prevent Cropping Cutting and Defaceing Tobacco
Taken on board Ships and Vessells Upon freight.

Whereas the Inhabitants of This province That do ship their
Tobacco on board of Ships or other Vessells upon Freight are
much Injured by the Croping Cutting Lessening deminishing
& Defacing of the hogsheads wherein such Tobacco is packt
by the Masters of Ships or other Vessells or by other psons

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