Acts. 623

all Respects, and to all Intents and Purposes, as any other Commis-
sioner herein named is authorized to do.

Session
Laws

Be it also Enacted, That the said Commissioners be, and are
hereby directed and impowered to meet at the said Charles-Toim,
on the Tenth of May yearly, and oftener as Occasion shall require,
to view, regulate, and perpetuate the Boundaries of the several and
respective Lots and Town, according to the true Intent and Mean-
ing of the Return of the Survey-Plat, and Certificate thereof; and
from time to time, as they shall see Cause, to inspect and enquire
into the Proceedings and Management of the said Wharf and Store-
house, at said Charles-Town to be built and raised, in order to pre-
vent and restrain all Irregularities and Impositions that may there

Time of
Meeting of
the Commis-
sioners.

happen.
And whereas, the present Inhabitants of Charles-Town aforesaid
have already of their own Accord published a Fair, which was held
at the said Town on the Tenth Day of this present Instant May,
whereat great Numbers of People did meet; and whereas the adja-
cent Country produceth many useful Commodities, which brought
to such Fair or Fairs to be sold, might be of Benefit and Advantage
to the Trade and People of this Province, if the Time and Manner
of keeping such Fair or Fairs were under due Regulations; Be it
therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That it shall and may
be lawful for the said Commissioners to appoint Two Fairs to be
held at the said Town, to wit, to begin on the Twenty-third Day of

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Time of
holding
Fairs.

April, and the Eighteenth Day of October, yearly, not being Sunday,
otherwise to begin on the Day following, and to continue the said
Fairs not more than Three Days each, Sundays exclusive; and that
during such Continuance of the said Fair or Fairs, all Persons within
the Bounds of said Town and Common shall be privileged from all
Arrests, except for Felony and Breach of the Peace; as also all Per-
sons coming to or returning from the said Fair or Fairs, have the
like Privilege for one Day before and after the same. And the said
Commissioners have also hereby Power and Authority, to make and
appoint such good Rules and Orders, to be observed in holding the
same, as may tend to prevent all Disorders and Inconveniencies
that may therein happen.

Privileges
allowed to
Persons who
come to said
Fairs.

And be it also Enacted, That the Commissioners aforesaid may
employ some Person, if Occasion should be, to register their Pro-
ceedings, at their appointed or annual Meetings, at Charles-Town
aforesaid; and that they are hereby impowered to pay the said Regis-
ter, or Person by them employed for that Purpose, out of the Fines

Commis-
sioners may
appoint them
a Register,

and Forfeitures, or other public Money, so as the Expence thereof
do not exceed Five Pounds in any one Year.
And whereas John Veasy, the present Deputy-Surveyor of Caecil
County, has not only been at extraordinary Trouble, in surveying

Allowance
to be made
for the
Deputy-
Surveyors.