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prejudice or dam up the Channel, or to obstruct the Passage of Boats,
on Pain of forfeiting Ten Pounds Current Money of Maryland :
To be recovered in the County Court, by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint,
or Information; wherein no Essoyn, Protection, or Wager of Law,
shall be allowed.
And to the End that all Masters, and other Persons, having the
Charge or Command of Ships or Vessels, may have due Notice of
this Act, and not pretend Ignorance, Be it Enacted, by the Authority
aforesaid, That every Naval-Officer within this Province, shall set
up and keep fixed in some publick Place in his Office, a Copy of this
Act; (for which Copy the said Naval-Officers, shall be allowed Ten

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Shillings in the publick Levy,) on Pain of forfeiting Ten Pounds
Current Money of Maryland, to be recovered as aforesaid, to the
Uses aforesaid.
And be it further Enacted, that an Act, intituled, An Act for the
Preservation of the several Harbours within this Province, made
at an Assembly held at Annapolis, the Fifth Day of December, in
the Year of Our Lord Seventeen Hundred and Four, shall be, and is,
by Virtue of this Act, repealed and abrogated. This Act to continue
for Three Years, and until the End of the Session of Assembly which
shall next happen after the End of the said Three Years.

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An Act to supply some Defects in an Act, intituled, An Additional
and Supplementary Act to the several Acts for the Administra-
tion of Justice in Testamentary Affairs.
Whereas, by the above mentioned Supplementary Act, the several
County Courts in this Province are impowered, on the Neglect or
Refusal of Principals, in the Bonds of Executors, Administrators,
or Guardians, to counter-secure their Sureties in those Bonds, to
order the Estate, for the Administration or Payment whereof the
said Sureties shall be bound, or such Part thereof as shall be left in
the Hands of the said Executors, Administrators, or Guardians, to
be delivered into the Hands of their Sureties, or their Representa-
tives, who are impowered, by Process of Attachment and Distress, to
take and possess themselves of the same, which Possession is made a
Discharge to the Executor, Administrator, or Guardian, therefrom ;
and yet the said Sureties, or their Representatives, are not required
to give any Security for the due Payment or Delivery of the same,
according to Law, whereby the Loss of the Estates of Infants, Per-
sons absent, and others, may be greatly indangered: For Remedy
whereof,
Be it Enacted, by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary of
this Province, 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 no Order of a County Court for the

Chap. XVII
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