646 Assembly Proceedings, May 16-July 11, 1747.

Session Laws

more effectual Punishment of certain Offenders, and for taking from
them the Benefit of Clergy, made at a Session of Assembly, begun
and held at the City of Annapolis, the Twenty sixth Day of April,
Seventeen hundred thirty and seven, be, and is hereby Continued,
and shall remain and be in full Force for and during the Term of
Three Years next ensuing, and to the End of the next Session of
Assembly which shall happen after the End of the said three Years.

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Chapter
XV

An Act continuing an Act, entituled, A Supplementary Act to an
Act, entituled, An Act laying an Imposition on Negroes, and
several sorts of Liquors Imported, and also on Irish Servants, to
prevent the Importing too great a Number of Irish Papists into
this Province.

Continua-
tion of an
Act

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 above mentioned Act, entituled, A Supplemen-
tary Act to an Act, entituled, An Act laying an Imposition on Ne-
groes, and several sorts of Liquors Imported, and also on Irish
Servants, to prevent the Importing too great a Number of Irish
Papists into this Province, made at a Session of Assembly, begun
and held at the City of Annapolis, the Twentieth Day of March,
Anno Domini, One thousand seven hundred and thirty four, be, and
is hereby Continued, and shall remain and be in full Force for and
during the Term of three Years next Ensuing, and to the End of
the next Session of Assembly which shall happen after the End of
the said three Years.

Chapter

XVI

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 man-
ner of Trying Slaves.

Continua-
tion of an
Act

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 above mentioned 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
prevent the tumultuous Meeting and other Irregularities of Negroes
and other Slaves, and directing the manner of Trying Slaves, made