Acts. 621

County where the Offences shall be committed, or where the Of-
fender or Offenders shall be taken or apprehended.

Liber B. L. C.

And to the End this Act may be known by all Sorts of People, Be
it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the several Sheriffs
within this Province shall read, or cause this Act to be read, at the
Court-House Door, on the second Day of each of the four County
Courts in every Year, during the Continuance of this Act, on Pain
of forfeiting five Pounds Current Money for every Neglect; to be
recovered as aforesaid, with Costs of Suit, by Indictment or Infor-
mation, in the Court of the County where such Neglect shall happen,
and be applied to defray the County Charge.

p. 538
[Sheriffs to
read this Act
at County
Courts.]

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 die 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.]

This Act to continue for three Years, and unto the End of the next
Session of Assembly which shall happen after the End of the said
three Years.

[Continu-
ance of this
Act.]

7^th June 1751
Read and assented to
by the Lower House of
Assembly.
Signed p Order
M. Macnemara Cl. lo. ho.

On behalf of the Right
Honble. the Lord Prop^ry
of this Province I will
this Be a Law
Sam: Ogle

The Great Seal in
Wax append^t

7 June 1751
Read and assented to
by the Upper House of
Assembly
Signed p Order
J Ross, Cl Up. H.

An Act to establish the Special Court Records of Anne Arundel
County.

No. 15

Whereas, by one Act of Assembly of this Province entituled, An
Act for the Relief of Anne Arundel County, and all Persons con-
cerned in the Records thereof lately burnt, made at a Session of
Assembly begun and held at the Town and Port of Annapolis the
fifteenth Day of May, Anno Domini One thousand seven hundred
and five, a Commission issued to several Commissioners therein
named, to hear and determine all Differences, Claims, and Demands
whatsoever, between any the Inhabitants, or other Persons, inter-
ested in the Lands lying within the County aforesaid; and that the
Judgments and Determinations which should be by them made be-
tween Party and Party, by Authority of the same Act, should be
recorded in a fair Book, or Books, to be provided for that Purpose ;
and every such Judgment and Determination should be signed by
three or more of the said Commissioners: Which Book or Books,
when perfected, were by the said Act directed to be placed and in-
trusted with the Clerk of Anne Arundel County, among the Records
of the said County, that all Persons concerned might repair to view

[Preamble.]