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the same, or the Value of it: The one Moiety thereof to the Right
Honourable the Lord Proprietary, his Heirs and Successors, for the
Support of Government; and the other Moiety to him or them that
will seize or sue for the same: To be recovered in any Court of
Record within this Province, by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint, or In-
formation; wherein no Essoin, Protection, or Wager of Law, shall
be allowed.
This Act to continue in Force, for and during the Term of Three
Years, and to the End of the next Session of Assembly which shall
happen after the Expiration of Three Years.

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Laws

An Act for Naturalization.

For the easier and speedier Investing Aliens or Foreigners with
all the Rights and Privileges of any His Majesty's Natural free-born
Subjects within this Province: Be it Enacted, by the Right Hon-
ourable the Lord Proprietary, by and with the Advice and Consent of
His Lordship's Governour, and the Upper and Lower Houses of
Assembly, and the Authority of the same, That it shall and may be
lawful for the Governour, or Commander in Chief, of this Province,
for the Time being, by a Publick Instrument, under the Broad Seal
thereof, to declare any Alien or Aliens, Foreigner or Foreigners,
his, her, or their Child or Children, (Negroes and other Slaves ex-
cepted) being already settled, or Inhabitants of this Province, or
such as shall hereafter come to settle, reside, or plant in it, and having
taken the Oaths to the Government, appointed to be taken by Act of
Assembly of this Province, and subscribing the Abjuration and

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Test, according to the Directions of the said Act, before the Gov-
ernour or Commander in Chief, for the Time being, or a Justice of
the Provincial or County Court of this Province, to be, to all Intents
and Purposes, fully and compleatly naturalized: And that the said
Persons so approved of, and named in the said Letters Patent, as
aforesaid, shall, by Virtue of this Act, have and enjoy to them, and
their Heirs, the same Immunities and Rights, of and unto the Laws
and Privileges of this Province, as fully and amply as any of His
Majesty's natural-born Subjects have or enjoy within the same,
as if they themselves had been born within any of His Majesty's
Realms or Dominions; any former Law, Ordinance, Usage, or Cus-
tom to the contrary, in any-wise, notwithstanding.
And to the Intent the said Letters Patent, or Instrument, under
the Broad Seal of this Province, as aforesaid, may be obtained with-
out any great Difficulty or Charge, Be it further Enacted, by the
Authority aforesaid, That the Governour or Commander in Chief,
shall have and receive for the same, the Sum of Forty Shillings
Current Money; and the Clerk of the Council, for Writing it, Ten
Shillings.

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