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every such Case, the Offender shall remain and continue in Prison
for the Space of One whole Year, without Bail or Mainprize.
Provided also, That the Party grieved, shall and may have and
maintain his or her Action of Trespass, or other proper Action at Law,
for Recovery of Damages against the Offender; any thing herein
contained to the contrary, notwithstanding.

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Laws

And be it Enacted, That any Person or Persons who shall, after the
End of this Session of Assembly, wilfully burn any Tobacco belonging
to any other Person, whether hanging, or in bulk, or packed, or any
Tobacco House or Houses, having therein any Tobacco hanging,
or in bulk, or packed, and be thereof convicted by due Course of Law ;
and every Aider and Abettor of such Offender, shall suffer Death
as a Felon, without Benefit of Clergy.
This Act to continue Three Years, and to the End of the next
Session of Assembly, which shall happen after the End of the Three
Years.

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An Act Reviving an Act for destroying Bears in Somerset County.

Be it Enacted, by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary, by
and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's Governor, and
the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the Authority of
the same. That the Act, intituled, An Act for destroying- Bears in
Somerset County, made at a Session of Assembly, begun and held
at the City of Annapolis, the Third Day of October, in the Year of
our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Twenty Eight, be and
is hereby Revived and continued to be and remain in full Force,
Power, and Virtue.

Chap. IX

An Act for the Assessment of One Hundred Thousand Pounds of
Tobacco on the Taxable Inhabitants of Christ-Church Parish,
in Calvert County, for the building of a Church and Vestry-Room ;
and for the purchasing Two Acres of Land.

Whereas, the Vestrymen, Churchwardens, and several other In-
habitants of Christ-Church Parish, in Calvert County, by their
Petition to this General Assembly, have set forth, That their
Church and Vestry-Room have lately been unfortunately burnt, and
that they are desirous to build another as soon as possible; and hum-
bly prayed, an Act might pass to impower the Vestrymen and Church-
wardens of the said Parish, to agree with some Person or Persons
to build a new Church and Vestry-Room on that Acre of Land
where the late Church stood; and also to purchase Two Acres of
Land next adjoining to the Acre whereon the Church stood, the better
to secure the new Church, when built, from the like Accident; and also
to enable the Justices of the Peace for the County aforesaid, to cause
to be levied on the Taxable Persons in the Parish aforesaid, the
Quantity of One Hundred Thousand Pounds of Tobacco, for the

Chap. XII