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

Session Laws

Manner within the said Counties, immediately to repair with such
Assistance as he or they shall think necessary, to such Place where
such Negroes and other Slaves shall be assembled, and require and
command them immediately to disperse and retire to their several
Dwellings; which if they, or any of them, shall refuse or delay to
do, or shall behave impudently or turbulently, such Constable or
Constables shall seize and take such Negro or Negroes, or other
Slave or Slaves, so refusing, delaying, or misbehaving, and give him,
her, or them, a due Correction, by whipping on the bare Back with
any Number of Stripes not exceeding Thirty-Nine.

Proviso

Provided Always, That nothing herein shall extend, or be con-
strued to extend, to prevent, hinder, or preclude any licensed Ordi-
nary-Keeper, whose settled Dwelling shall happen to be within three
Miles of, or a greater Distance from such Meeting-Houses, or either
of them, from erecting or building any Booths, or other Convenien-
cies. for the better accommodating and refreshing Persons going to
or returning from such Meetings, so that the same be at his or her
dwelling House, and subject to the several other Restrictions and
Limitations herein before expressed, or from selling such Liquors
or Accommodations in such dwelling House.

Continua-
tion of this
Act

This Act to continue from and after the End of this present Ses-
sion of Assembly, for and during the space of three Years, and unto
the End of the next Session of Assembly which shall happen after
the Expiration of the said three Years.

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Chapter
XVIII

An Act empowering certain Commissioners therein mentioned, to
lay out and set a Price, or cause a Price to be set, on two Acres
of Land in St. Margaret's Westminster Parish, in Anne-Arundel
County, whereon the Chapel of Ease belonging to the said Parish
now stands.

Preamble

Whereas the Rector, Vestrymen, and Church-Wardens of St.
Margaret's Westminster Parish, in Anne-Arundel County, have, by
their humble Petition to this present General Assembly, set forth,
That the Chapel erected at the upper End of the said Parish hath
for some Years been out of Repair, and that the Vestrymen have
forborn to repair the same, by Reason that the Land whereon it
stands hath not been purchased for that Use, the Owner thereof
refusing to sell any Part less than the whole Tract, which contains
One Hundred Acres; by which Means, unless remedied by the Legis-
lature of this Province, the Inhabitants at the upper End of said
Parish will be destitute of a Place of Public Worship: For removing
of which Inconvenience, it is humbly prayed that it may be Enacted ;
And 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 Colonel Charles Hammond, Capt. John Meriken,