322 Assembly Proceedings, May 24-June 24, 1749.

Liber B. L. C.

fences of Adultery and Fornication, as relates to corporal Punish-
ment for Fornication, be and is hereby repealed.

June 23^rd 1749
Read and Assented to
by the Lower House of
Assembly
Signed p Order
M Macnemara Cl lo ho.

On behalf of the Right
Hon^ble the Lord Prop^ry
of this province I will
this be a Law.
Sam: Ogle

The Great Seal in
wax appendant

23 June 1749
Read and Assented to
by the Upper House of
Assembly
Signed p Order
J Ross Cl Up Ho.

No. 13
p. 479

An Act for further altering and establishing certain Warehouses,
and for other Purposes therein mentioned.

[Preamble.]

Whereas many of the Inhabitants of Calvert County, by their
humble Petition to this General Assembly, have prayed that the
House for Inspection of Tobacco on the Lower Side of Hunting-
Creek, near the Place where Benjamin Hance his Warehouse now
stands, is found to be inconvenient to most of the Persons who
are to have Tobacco inspected on that Creek; and for That that the
Place called Hunting-Town is known to be a much more proper
Place for that Purpose.

[Inspecting-
House to be
at Hunting
Town in-
stead of
Hunting
Creek.]

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 one of the public Places for Inspection
of Tobacco in Calvert County, shall be at Hunting-Town, in the
Room and Stead of that appointed by an Act of Assembly of this
Province entituled, an Act for amending the Staple of Tobacco,
for preventing Frauds in his Majesty's Customs, and for the Limi-
tation of Officers Fees, to be on the Lower Side of Hunting-Creek,
near Mr. Hance's Warehouse; any Thing in the said recited Act to
the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.

[Ware-
houses on
Porter's
Land, and
at Wells's
Landing to
be under
separate
Inspections.]

And whereas it is also represented to this General Assembly, by
sundry Inhabitants of Queen Anne's County, that the Houses ap-
pointed for Inspecting Tobacco on the Land of Richard Porter,
junior, and at the Landing of Humphry Wells, junior, are at least
ten Miles distant from each other; and that the Difficulty of attend-
ing them at such a Distance (they being at present appointed to be
under one Inspection) has deterr'd such Persons as have hitherto
been commissioned to be Inspectors at those Houses from serving.
Be it therefore further Enacted by the Authority, Advice, and
Consent aforesaid, That the Warehouses for Inspecting Tobacco
on the Land of the said Richard Porter, junior, and at the Landing
of Humphry Wells, junior, shall be under separate and distinct In-
spections; any Thing in the above recited Act to the contrary not-
withstanding.