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by the Scarcity of Tobacco within this Province in the Year
1724

U. H. J.

N^o 8 An Act to Encourage the Takers up of Runaway
Slaves that shall be taken up by any person and brought in
from the Back woods.
N^o 9 An Act Declaring female Mulattoes born of white
women and free Negroe women Taxables.
N^o 10 An Act declaring probates of Deeds or other
matters & Acknowledgments of Deeds taken before two
Magistrates of the City of Annapolis good and valid in Law.
N^o 11 An Act for removing the Court House from Battle
Creek in Calvert County and for Building a Court house for
the said County on or near that place in the said County
Commonly Called or known by the name of William's Old
field and for making Sale of the Old Court house and Prison
N^o 12 An Act for the Naturalization of Michael Ury of
Prince Georges County a Greek
N^o 13. An Act to enable Orlando Griffith and Catherine
his Wife to sell the Moiety or half part of a certain Tract of
Land hereafter mentioned & for the Intailing other Lands
in lieu thereof
N^o 14 Ah Act to enable John Speake Jun^r of Charles
County to Confirm a Tract of Entailed Land lying in Prince
Georges County called Plymouth unto the Purchasers
thereof, and to Entail certain lands in Charles County in lieu
thereof
N^o 15 An Act Entituled A Supplementary Act to An Act
Empowering certain Trustees to sell a Tract of Land in Tal-
bot County called Frankfort St. Michaell (late the Estate of
Inheritance of Will^m Harris late of Calvert County and with
the money thereby ariseing to purchase other Lands for the
use of Joseph Harris & Benj^a Harris son of the said W^m Har-
ris and the Heirs of their Bodys according to the direccons
of the last will and Testament of the said William Harris
N^o 16 An Act to Confirm an Estate in ffee Simple to such
persons as already have or hereafter shall purchase any

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Lands lying in the new Town Commonly called the Addition
to the City of Annapolis or any land adjoyning to the said
City of Annapolis Called the Town pasture or Common and to
invest them with the same priviledges within the City of
Annapolis as other the Freeholders therein now have or here-
after may Enjoy.

N^o 17 An Act to Invest the vestry of great Choptank
parish in Dorchester County with an Estate in ffee Simple
to the Lands therein mentioned

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