Acts. 549

An Act reviving and continuing an Act of Assembly of this Province,
intituled, An Act for the better Relief of poor Debtors.

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 this present General Assembly, and
the Authority of the same, That the above-mentioned Act, intituled,
An Act for the better Relief of poor Debtors, made at a Session of
Assembly, begun and held at the City of Annapolis, the Ninth Day of
October, Anno Domini Seventeen Hundred and Twenty Two, be
and is hereby revived and continued, to be and remain in full Force,
for and during the Term of Three Years, from the End of this Session
of Assembly, and to the End of the next Session of Assembly which
shall happen after the said Three Years.

Session
Laws
Chap. XX
[Continues
1722, ch. 13]

An Act for laying out a-new Fifteen Acres of Land, Part of the One
Hundred Acres of Land, formerly erected into a Town, commonly
called Benedict-Leonard Town, upon Patuxent River, in Charles
County, besides the Lots which have been already taken up, pur-
suant to the Directions of former Laws: And to refrain the In-
habitants from keeping any Stock, except within their Inclosure,
in the said Town.

Chap. XXI

Whereas, formerly there was laid out in Charles County, on
Patuxent River, a Town commonly called Benedict-Leonard Town,
containing One Hundred Acres of Land, the Bounds whereof, are
very uncertain, and the Improvements very much hindred, by
Reason all the Lots were not taken up and improved in Time: And
whereas, it is represented to this General Assembly, That the said
Place is very convenient for a Town, and several People desirous
to settle in the same, could they be well secured in their Lots; and
there being no Provision made, by any Act in Force, for the taking
up and building on Lots in the same Place. And whereas also, the
said One Hundred Acres, by this General Assembly, is thought to be
by far too much for that Place,
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 Col. Robert Hanson, M^r Samuel Han-
son, Col. John Fendall, Mr. Henry Holland Hawkins, and Col.
Thomas Trueman Greenfield, or any Three of them, are hereby ap-
pointed Commissioners for Charles County aforesaid, and are hereby
Authorized and impowered, as well to agree for the buying and
purchasing Fifteen Acres of Land, out of the Tract aforesaid; to be
added to such Lots, as have already been taken up; and such Parts
not exceeding Fifteen Acres, as lies most convenient to the Water,
adjoyning to the Lots formerly taken up, as for surveying and laying

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