Ac/s. 541

Provided always, That no White Man or Slave who shall be em-
ployed in making Tobacco, shall have any Exemption.
And be it further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That if any
Ordinary-keeper, Victualler, or Publick House-keeper, shall, without
Licence first had and obtained in Writing, from the Owner or
Owners, or principal Managers of any Iron- Work, harbour or enter-
tain any Person who shall be hired or employed in any Manner about
any Iron- Work, or give them Credit for any Liquor, or other Ac-
comodations, exceeding the Value of Five Shillings Current Money
in any One Year; every Ordinary-keeper, Victualler, or Publick
House-keeper, so offending, shall be liable and subject to the same
Losses, Pains, and Penalties, as are provided against entertaining,
harbouring, and trusting Sailors, by an Act, intituled, An Act
restraining Victuallers and Keepers of Publick Houses, from enter-
taining Sailors, to the Prejudice of Trade and Commerce.
And be it further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That any
Person so entertained, and being- a legal Witness, shall be admitted
and received as a Witness, in any Suit or Controversy concerning
any Offence against this Act, or concerning any Claim or Demand
of any Ordinary-keeper, for Expences.

Session
Laws

An Act for the erecting a Town in Queen- Anne's County, on Chester
River, opposite to Chester Town, in Kent County, on the Land
possessed by John Dempster.

Whereas, several of the Inhabitants of Queen- Anne's County, have,
by their Petition to this General Assembly, set forth, That a Town is
very much wanting on the South Side of Chester River, opposite to
Chester Town, on a Tract of Land now in Possession of John Demp-
ster, and supposed to be the Right of the said Dempster,
Be it therefore Enacted, by the Right Honourable the Lord Pro-
prietary, by and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's Gov-
ernor, and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the
Authority of the same, That M^r William Hemsley, Mr. Solomon
Clayton, Mr. Edward Wright, Mr. Augustine Thompson, and Mr.
James Gold, or any Three of them, shall be and are hereby appointed
Commissioners for Queen-Anne's County aforesaid, and are hereby
authorized and impowered, as well to agree for the buying and
purchasing Thirty Acres of Land out of the Tract aforesaid, and such
Part, not exceeding Thirty Acres, as lies most convenient to the
Water, as for surveying- and laying the same out, in the most con-
venient Manner, into Thirty equal Lots, to be erected into a Town.
And be it further Enacted, That the Commissioners aforesaid
herein before nominated and appointed, or the major Part of them,
are hereby impowered. some Time before the Last Day of December,

Chap.
XVIII

which shall be in the Year of our Lord God, One Thousand Seven
Hundred and Thirty Two, to meet together on the Tract of Land

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