298 Assembly Proceedings, Oct. 2-Nov. 17, 1753.

Liber H. S.
No. I

neglect or Refusal shall happen, the other Half to him, her, or them,
that shall inform or sue for the same; to be recovered by Action
of Debt, Bill, Plaint, or Information, in any Court of Record within
this Province, wherein no Essoin, Protection, or Wager of Law,
or more than one Imparlance shall be allowed. Provided, That such
Person or Persons, Owner or Owners, Possessor or Occupier, of
such Mill or Mills, shall not be obliged to send his or their taxable
Persons, who shall reside in the Precinct of such public Road, to
work on any Part of such Road, except such Mill-Dam, Causway,
Race, and Waste, as aforesaid.

[Some Con-
tracts in
Worcester
County made
void.]

And be it further Enacted, That all Contracts heretofore made
by the Justices of Worcester County Court, with the Proprietor or
Proprietors of any such Mill or Mills, for the keeping in good
Repair such Dam or Bridge, and free Passage of Travellers and
Carriages as aforesaid, are by this Act made null and void to all
Intents and Purposes whatsoever; any Thing to the contrary in
any wise notwithstanding.

[Time al-
lowed for
making good
the Mill-
Dams.]

Provided always, and be it Enacted, That no Owner or Owners
of such Mills as aforesaid, over the Dams of which public Roads
now pass, shall be subject to any of the Penalties in this Act, for not
making such Mill-Dams of the Breadth in the said Act directed,
until after the First Day of November, which shall be in the Year
of our Lord Seventeen Hundred and Fifty Four.

[Continu-
ance.]

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

9.^th November 1753.
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 Propry
of this Province I will
this be a Law
Hor.° Sharpe

the great seal in
Wax Appendant

9 Novem.^r 1753
Read and Assented to
by the Upper House of
Assembly
Signed p Order
J. Ross Cl Up Ho.

No. 16

p. 32

[Preamble.]

An Act for regulating Judicial Proceedings.

Whereas in Actions of Trover and Conversion, and Actions of
Detinue, special Bail, by the Order and Course of Law, is not
granted, and for that many Persons commencing such Suits, for
Want of special Bail therein, have often lost the Effects of their
Judgments, the Defendants in such Suits frequently running away :
To avoid the Consequence thereof,

[In Actions
of Trover,
&c. the Jus-
tices may
order special
Bail.]

II. Be it therefore 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 in all Actions of Trover and Conver-
sion, and Actions of Detinue, to be commenced after the First Day