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VIII. And be it further Enacted, by the Authority, Advice
and Consent aforesaid, That an Act of Assembly of this Prov-
ince, entitled, An Act for regulating Writs of Error, and
granting Appeals from and to the Courts of Common Law,
within this Province, made at a Session of Assembly begun
and held at the City of Annapolis, the Twenty-eighth Day of
October, and ended November the Fifteenth, in the Eleventh
Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lady Queen Anne, Anno
Domini Seventeen Hundred and Twelve, is hereby utterly
repealed and made void; any thing in the said Act to the
contrary notwithstanding.
Reverdy Ghiselin,
Thomas Bacon.
An Act impowering the Justices of the several County Courts
within this Province, to regulate the Bounds of the several
Parishes within their respective Counties, when disputable ;
and for ascertaining the Time and Manner, when and how,
the Forty Pounds of Tobacco per Poll shall become due and
payable to the Minister or Incumbent of each Parish.
Forasmuch as it hath been represented to this General
Assembly, that for Want of due Care in the first Division of
the several Parishes within this Province, the Bounds of many
of the said Parishes remain very uncertain and disputable,
which heretofore hath been, and hereafter may be, the Occasion
of many Debates and Controversies, as well between the
several Incumbents, as the Vestries of such Parishes: For
Prevention whereof for the future;
II. Be it Enacted, by the Queen's most excellent Majesty,
by and with the Advice and Consent of her Majesty's Presi-
dent, Council, and Assembly of this Province, and the Authority
of the same, That from and after the End of this present Ses-
sion of Assembly, it shall and may be lawful for the Justices
of the several County Courts within this Province, or the
major Part of them, where the Bounds of any Parish, or Par-
ishes, within their respective Counties are uncertain, or ambig-
uously expressed, to ascertain and regulate them for the
future, and after having so done, to cause their Proceedings
therein to be enter'd in the Records of their County Courts,
there to remain for the satisfaction of those that at any Time
hereafter shall have Occasion to have Recourse thereunto.
III. And whereas some Parishes are so divided, as that they
are partly contained in Two Counties; Be it therefore Enacted
by the Authority aforesaid, by and with the Advice and Con-
sent aforesaid, That in every such Case, the Justices of that
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