Acts. 137

seven, be and is hereby continued and shall remain and be in full
Force, until the Twenty ninth Day of September, in the Year One
thousand seven hundred and forty nine, and no longer.
And whereas it is absolutely necessary in these Times of real
Danger, to have a large Quantity of Arms and Ammunition within
this Province, for the common Defence and Security thereof,
Be it also Enacted, That the Money already raised, and hereafter
to be raised by the above recited Act, and to be raised by virtue of
this Act, shall and is hereby required to be forthwith applyed for
the Purchase of Arms and Ammunition, and to no other Use or
Purpose whatsoever, except the Salaries to the Treasurers, Naval-
Officers, and Armourer in the said Act mentioned; and that the

Liber B. L. C.

Governor and Council for the Time being shall dispose of the same
for such Arms and Ammunition accordingly, and direct that the
said Arms and Ammunition be imported into this Province as soon
as possible.

[Governor
and Council
to purchase
Arms imme-
diately.]

June 7^th 1748
Read & Assented to by
the Lower House of As-
sembly
Signed p Order
M. Macnemara Cl lo. ho.

On behalf of the Right
Honourable the Lord
Proprietary of this Prov-
ince I will this be a Law.

Sam: Ogle
The Great Seal in
wax appendant

7^th June 1748
Read and Assented to
by the Upper House of
Assembly.
Signed p Order
J Ross Cl Up. Ho.

An Act granting a further Time for surveying and laying out anew
a Town in Worcester County, called Newport Town, and con-
firming the Privileges granted by the former Act to the said Town.

No. 12
p. 445

Whereas it is represented to this General Assembly, that in Pur-
suance to the Directions and Authority given in an Act made at a
Session of Assembly, begun and held at the City of Annapolis the
First Day of May, Anno Domini, Seventeen hundred and forty
four, entitled, An Act to enable Commissioners therein named to lay
out forty Acres of Land into eighty Lots for a Town on Indian
River in Worcester County: As also forty Acres of Land into
eighty Lots at the Head of Asseteague Creek, at a Place commonly
called the Trap for a Town; the Commissioners therein named, or
the major Part of them, together with the Surveyor of Worcester
County, did proceed and actually lay out forty Acres of Land at
the Head of Asseteague Creek, at the Place in the Act mentioned,
by the Name of Newport Town; but that the Surveyor of the said
County upon performing his Part of Duty as required and directed
by the said Act, refused to stake out and distinguish the several and
respective Lots in the saicl Town, or to pay and satisfy the Chain-
Carriers for their Service. And whereas it is further represented to
this General Assembly, that an Act passed at a Session of Assem-
bly, begun and held at the City of Annapolis the Fifth Day of
August, Anno Domini, Seventeen hundred and forty five, entituled,

[Preamble.]