Acts. 647

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.

Session Laws

Provided always, That where any Money shall be paid by virtue
of any Act or Acts of this Province, for any Slave or Slaves who
shall dye in Goal after Sentence, or shall be Executed, It is hereby
Declared and Enacted, That such Payment shall be made for such
Slave or Slaves who were actual Inhabitants within this Province,
at the time of such Fact committed, and not otherwise.

Proviso

An Act to prevent certain Evils and Inconveniencies attending the
sale of strong Liquors, and running of Horse-Races, near the
yearly Meetings of the People called Quakers, and to prevent the
tumultuous Concourse of Negroes and other Slaves during the
said Meetings.

Chapter
XVII

Whereas the People called Quakers, have, by their Petition to
this present General Assembly, set forth, and complained, that (not-
withstanding the former Indulgence of the Legislature in restraining
Booths and other Places for selling Liquor, from being set up or

Preamble

kept within Two Miles of their Meeting-House at West-River, and
One Mile of their Meeting-House at Third-Haven Creek in Talbot
County, which Favour they most gratefully acknowledge,) They,
as well as those of other Persuasions who resort to their yearly
Meetings, labour under and suffer many Inconveniencies from the
great Concourse of idle and profligate white People, and great
Crowds of Negroes that assemble together at the usual Times of
their yearly Meetings held at their said Meeting Houses, drinking
to Excess, and behaving in a riotous and turbulent Manner, at
Booths, and other Places, where strong and spirituous Liquor can
be had, at greater Distances than before-mentioned; and that they
have for some Years last past been greatly incommoded and endan-
gered in passing and repassing to and from their said Meeting House
in Talbot County, by Multitudes of rude and disorderly People that
gather together to run Horse Races on the Road between the said
Meeting House at Third-Haven Creek, and a Place near thereto,
called New-Market. For Prevention of which Evils for the future,
they have prayed that it may be Enacted ;

p. 44
[Continued
by 1751, ch.
19; 1754, ch.
12; 1759, ch.
20; 1760, ch.
3; 1765, ch.
23; June,
1773, ch. 2;
Oct. 1780,
ch. 12; Nov.
1787, ch. 38;
1795, ch. 83,
made per-
manent by
1798, chs.
10 and 71,
amended by
1752, ch. 14,
sec. 4]

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 from and after the End of this present
Session of Assembly, if any Person or Persons whatsoever shall set
up or erect any Booth or other Conveniency for selling Liquor, or

No Booths
to be set up
within 3
Miles of the
Quakers
Meetings