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Public
Record
Office,
London.
C. O. S,
Vol. 731,
Maryland.
From
1694-1702.
Acts
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upon any person or persons Plantacon or plantacons to drive away
any Stock of Catle or horses unless it be their own proper goods &
Chatles without lycense first had & obtained from the true owner
or possessor of such lands or plantacons under the penalty of five
thousand pounds of Tobacco, for every person soe offending being
thereof legally convict to be recovered in the County Court where
such offence shall be committed by action of debt, bill, plaint or Infor-
macon wherein no Essoyne protection or wager of law to be allowed,
one halfe thereof to the use of the vestry of such Parrishes wherein
such offence shall be committed & the other halfe to the informer or
him or them that shall sue for the same & in case such persons soe
offending being legally convict thereof & not haveing sufficient goods
& Chatles wherewith to pay the said sum of five thousand pounds
of Tobacco that then & in such case the said offender or offenders
shall have & receive such corporall punishment as the Court before
whome he or they shall be legally convicted shall think fitt to inflict
not extending to life & member. And be it further Enacted by the
Authority aforesaid, by & with the advice & consent aforesaid, that
no person or persons whatsoever shall dureing the continueance of this
act range in the woods after wilde horses or Catle unless lycensed by
the Governeur of this Province for the time being under the penalty
herein before in this Act menconed to be recovered as is herein before
expressed. This Act to endure for three years or to the end of the
next Gennerall Assembly which shall first happen.
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Acts of
April, 1696,
ch. 4
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An Act for Reviveing the Temporary laws of this Province.
Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by & with the
advice & consent of this present Gennerall Assembly & the Authority
of the same that one act of Assembly of this Province made at a
Session of Assembly begun & held at the Citty of St. Maryes the
tenth day of May in the year of our Lord 1692 Intituled an Act pro-
hibiting Trade with the Indians for any flesh dead or alive (except
deer & wilde fowle), One other Act made at the same Assembly in-
tituled an act for the more speedy bringing to tryall & suppressing
crimminals & limmitting their punishments for certaine offences when
prosecuted in the County Courts, One other act made at the same
Assembly Intituled an Act relateing to Servants & Slaves, One
other act made at the same Assembly intituled an Act relateing to
Negroes & Slaves, One other act made at the same Assembly in-
tituled an act declareing what shall be done by the Sheriff ex officio,
one other act made at the same Assembly intituled an act for secureing
Merchants & others Tobacco after they have received it, One other
Act made at the same Assembly intituled an act for limmitation of
officers fees, One other Act made at the same Assembly Intituled an
Act limmitting the County Clarkes fees within this Province, One
other Act made at the same Assembly intituled an Act for the order-
ing & regulateing the Militia of this Province for the better defence
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