Acts. 413

An Act to continue such Causes now Depending in the Provincial
Court as by Law ought to have been determined October Provin-
cial Court One Thousand Seven Hundred and Forty-two.

Session
Laws
Chap. XII.

Whereas the Provincial Court in course was on the Second Tues-
day of this October, and by means of the Assembly's Continuance
it was impossible to finish such Business in that Court as ought to
have been determined by the Laws now in being.

Preamble.

Be it therefore Enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Pro-
prietary, by and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's
Governor, and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the
Authority of the same, That all such Causes that Depended in the
said Court on the aforesaid Second Tuesday of October, being the
Day to which Writs were returnable, and which would not bear a
further Continuance, be, and are hereby, continued until the Third
Tuesday of May next; any Law, Usage or Custom to the contrary
notwithstanding.

Causes to be
continued
in the
Provincial
Court, &c.

An Act for Laying out and Erecting a Town on the South side of
the Eastern Branch of Potomack River in Prince George's County
near a Place called Garrison Landing.

Chap. XII .

Whereas several Inhabitants of Prince George's County, by their
Petition to this General Assembly, have set forth, that there is a con-
venient Place for a Town at the Head of the Eastern Branch of
Potomack River, and on the South side of the said Branch near the
Forks thereof, and at or near a Place called Garrison Landing, and
prayed that Sixty Acres of Land may be there laid out, and erected
into a Town ;

Preamble.

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 Mr. James Edmunson, Mr. Osborn
Sprigg, Mr. William Mauduit, Mr. Thomas Gaunt junior, and
Mr. Thomas Warren, shall be, and are hereby appointed Commis-
sioners for Prince George's County aforesaid, and are hereby author-
ized and impowered as well to buy and purchase Sixty Acres of
Land, at the Place aforesaid, where it shall appear to them, or the
major Part of them, to be most convenient for a Town, as to survey
and lay out, or cause the same to be surveyed and laid out, in the
best and most convenient Manner, into Sixty Lots, to be erected into
a Town.
And be it further Enacted by the Authority, Advice, and Consent
aforesaid, That the Commissioners aforesaid, before nominated and
appointed, or the major Part of them, are hereby impowered and
required at some Time, by them, or the major Part of them, to be

Names of
the Com-
missioners.

appointed, before the Twentieth Day of December next, after the
End of this present Session of Assembly, to meet together on the

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