164 Assembly Proceedings, May 21-June 16, 1730.

Session
Laws

General Assembly, that the Bounds of the said Two Acres of Land
should be altered. Wherefore it is prayed, that it may be Enacted :
And be it Enacted, by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprie-
tary, by and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's Gov-
erneur, and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the
Authority of the same, That the Bounds of the said Two Acres of
Land mentioned in the aforesaid recited Act, shall be, and are hereby
deemed and declared for the future, to be as follows; (that is to say,)
beginning at the North-East Corner of the Chapel aforesaid, and run-
ning East, to William Ennall's Ditch; then South, Thirty Eight
Degrees, West, Twelve Perches; then West, Thirty Eight Degrees,
North, Twenty Perches; thence North, Thirty Eight Degrees, East,
Sixteen Perches; then East, Thirty Eight Degrees, South, Twenty
Perches, to the said Ditch; then bounding therewith, till it intersects
the aforesaid East Line drawn from the said Chapel, containing
Two Acres of Land. And that the same Bounds and Lines circum-
scribing the same, should be settled and perpetuated,
Be it further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, by and with the
Advice and Consent aforesaid, That the Vestry of the said Parish
are hereby required and enjoyned, within Six Months from the
End of this Session of Assembly, to run the said above-mentioned
Lines, and place one Cedar Post at each Corner of the same; and
enter the said Lines and Plat in their Register Book of the said
Parish; and when so compleated, the said Bounds shall be and
remain for the future the undoubted Bounds of the said Two Acres
of Land for Ever. The aforesaid recited Act, or any other Act
to the contrary thereof, notwithstanding.

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And Be It Further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, by and
with the advice and Consent aforesaid. That if the Lines be not
run, the Posts, set up, and the Lines and Plat entered upon Record,
as this Act requires, every Vestry-man in the Parish aforesaid, shall
forfeit and pay the Sum of Five Hundred Pounds of Tobacco to such
Person as will sue for the same. And that the said Fine may be
recovered in any Court of Record within this Province, by Action
of Debt, Bill, Plaint, or Information, wherein no Essoin, Protection,
or Wager of Law to be allowed.

Chap. V
1728,
ch. XVI

A Supplementary Act to the Act,¹ Intituled, An Act for the laying
out of Land, and erecting a Town in St. Mary's County, at a Place
formerly called Seymour Town.

Forasmuch, as it is represented to this General Assembly, by
Thomas Spalding, Jun. the Person, to whom the Land, where the
said Town is laid out, belongs, That he is, by the said Act, prevented
the Liberty of making use of any of the said Land, so by Virtue
thereof laid out, for the Space of Seven Years, altho' the same Lots
be not taken up; which is thought, by this present General Assembly,
to be a very great Hardship :