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Persons whatsoever ; any Law, Custom or Usage to the con-
trary notwithstanding.
III. Provided always, That before any Person or Persons
whatsoever, shall have such Grant to build a Forge-Mill, and
other Conveniencies for an Iron-Work as aforesaid, he or they
shall enter into Bond to his said Lordship, with Two sufficient
Sureties, in the Sum of One Hundred Pounds Sterling, with
Condition to begin to build the said Forge-Mill, and Con-
veniencies for the Iron-Work as aforesaid, within Six Months
then next to come, and the same Building to prosecute and
finish within Four Years after such Beginning.
IV. And forasmuch as for the carrying on so considerable
a Work, it will be absolutely necessary for the Undertakers,
to import, or otherwise retain in their Service, great Numbers
of experienced Work-men, and that they must unavoidably be
at vast Expences before they can bring such Work to any
tolerable Perfection, so as to reap any Benefit therefrom ; For

their better Encouragement, Be it Enacted, That all such

Work-men, or Labourers, as shall be by such Undertakers
constantly employed in the carrying on such useful and bene-
ficial Works, shall be exempt from the Paying of Levies for
the first Four Years after their being employed in such Work
as aforesaid: Provided, That the Number of such Work-men
as shall be Levy-free, exceed not Eighty for any one Iron-
Work.
V. Provided nevertheless, That in case such Undertakers
shall not prosecute such Iron-Work to the Running of Pigs fit
for Transportation, within Seven Years next after being
seized of such Lands, by virtue of such Writ, in Manner afore-
said, that then it shall and may be lawful for the Person or
Persons that were disseized of such Land by virtue of such
Writ, to re-enter upon and be re-instated in the same, to all
Intents and Purposes, as if such Writ had never been obtained,
without being obliged to return any Part of the Purchase-
Money for the same.
Examined and Compared with the Original Act,
Reverdy Ghiselin
Thomas Bacon.

Bacon

An Act Explaining and Declaring particularly what Laws
were Repealed by an Act, entitled, An Act Declaring all
Laws heretofore made, which have been Re-enacted this
Session of Assembly, to be Repealed ; and for Reviving the
Act for Relief of Ann-Arundel County.
Whereas at a Session of Assembly begun and held at the
City of Annapolis the 26^th Day of April, in the First Year oi
the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George, by the Grace of

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