Acts. 613

unto the End of the next Session of Assembly which shall happen
after the End of the said Three Years.

Session
Laws

An Act continuing an Act of Assembly of this Province Entituled,
A Supplementary Act to the Act entituled, An Act for the more
effectual Punishment of Negroes and other Slaves, and for taking
away the Benefit of Clergy from certain Offenders; and to an Act
entituled, An Act to prevent the tumultuous Meeting and other
Irregularities of Negroes and other Slaves, and directing the
Manner of trying of Slaves.

Chapter
XVIII.

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 Assembly, and the Authority of
the same, That the abovementioned Act entituled, An Act continu-
ing an Act of Assembly of this Province Entituled, A Supplementary
Act to the Act entituled, An Act for the more effectual Punishment
of Negroes and other Slaves, and for taking away the Benefit of
Clergy from certain Offenders; and to an Act entituled, An Act to

An Act
continued.

prevent the tumultuous Meeting and other Irregularities of Negroes
and other Slaves, and directing the Manner of trying of Slaves,
made at a Session of Assembly begun and held at the City of An-
napolis, the Twenty-sixth Day of April, Seventeen Hundred and
Thirty-seven, be, and is hereby continued in full Force, for and dur-
ing the Term of Three Years, and unto the End of the next Session
of Assembly that shall happen after the End of the said Three Years.

p. 17

An Act reviving an Act of Assembly entituled, An Act for the Bene-
fit of the Poor, and Encouragement of Industry.

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 Assembly, and the Authority of
the same, That the Act entituled, An Act for the Benefit of the Poor,
and Encouragement of Industry, made at a Session of Assembly
begun and held at the City of Annapolis, the Seventh Day of July,

Chap. XIX.
An Act
revived.

Anno Domini One Thousand Seven Hundred and Forty, be, and is
hereby revived and continued in full Force, from and after the End
of this Session of Assembly, for and during the Term of Three
Years, and to the End of the next Session of Assembly that shall
happen after the End of the said Three Years.

An Act for Punishment of Horse-Stealers, and other Offenders.

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 Assembly, and the Authority of
the same, That all and every Person and Persons, who shall here-
after feloniously take or steal any Horse or Horses, Mare or Mares,

Chap. XX.
Horse-
Stealers,
&c. how

punished.
[Continued
by 1747 Ch.
12, 1751 Ch.
4, 1754 Ch. 2,
1757 Ch. 26,
1762 Ch. 4,
1765 Ch. 25,
1773 Ch. 2,
Oct. 1780 Ch.
12, Nov.
1789 Ch. 38
and 1796 Ch.
66]