Acts. 163

Benjamin Freeman, John Vines, John Cornelius, Thomas Palmer,
William Gray, Thomas Davis, John Smith, Anthony Oneallis, John
Libby, and Alice Macklin, or such of them as shall be convicted as
aforesaid, shall, upon such Conviction, be adjudged to stand Two
Hours in the Pillory, and have his or her Left Ear cut off; and
shall be wholly deprived of any Benefit designed him, them, or any
of them, by this Law; and shall be from thence-forth liable to be
prosecuted for any Debts or Demands whatsoever, in the same
Manner, as if this Act had never been made. Any Thing therein
contained to the contrary, notwithstanding.
Provided always, That the several Sheriffs, in whose Custody any
of the Prisoners aforesaid are, shall be first satisfied their Imprison-
ment Fees, out of the respective Effects of the several Prisoners
before named, (save such Effects as before are excepted.) for the
Use of the said Prisoner or Prisoners, before any other Creditor or
Creditors shall have any Share of the Prisoners Effects. And if
the said Prisoners Effects shall not be sufficient to pay and Satisfy
to the Sheriff his Imprisonment Fees, that then each respective
Prisoner shall, after his or her Releasement out of Prison, be liable
to pay and satisfy unto the Sheriff, the Residue of his Imprisonment
Fees; provided, that the said Sheriff shall not prosecute or imprison
such Prisoner within Two Years after his or her Releasement. Any
Thing in this Act to the contrary, notwithstanding.

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Saving to His most Sacred Majesty, His Heirs and Successors;
the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary, his Heirs and Suc-
cessors; and all Bodies Politick and Corporate; and all others not
mentioned in this Act, their several and respective Rights.

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An Act altering the Bounds of Two Acres of Land heretofore granted
to Great Choptank Parish, on which the Chapel in Vienna now
stands

Whereas, by an Act of Assembly, made at a Session of Assembly,
begun and held at the City of Annapolis, the Tenth Day of October,
Seventeen Hundred and Twenty seven, Intituled, An Act, declaring
the Bounds of Two Acres of Land heretofore granted to Great
Choptank Parish, on which, the Chapel in Vienna now stands, the
Bounds of the said Two Acres, as by the said recited Act [were]
ascertained.
But Forasmuch, as it is made appear to this General Assembly,
That the Bounds of the said Two Acres of Land, as laid down and
mentioned in the aforesaid recited Act, is very much to the Prejudice
of William Ennalls, of Dorchester County, Gent, being not capable
to travel to and from his House, when the Parish aforesaid shall
think proper to inclose the said Two Acres of Ground; and for that,
the Vestry of the said Parish have signified their Consent to this

Chap. II
Amends
1727, ch. 7