Acts. 375

And be it Enacted, by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprie-
tary, by and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's Gover-
nor, and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the
Authority of the same, That from and after the End of this
present Session of Assembly, it shall not be lawful for any Per-
son or Persons, to put or lay; or to permit or allow, his or their
Servants or Slaves, or any Servants or Slaves under his or their
Direction, to carry, put, or throw, into the said River, or any of,
the navigable Branches thereof, any Earth, Sand, or Dirt, or to lay
or put on the Beach or Shore of the said River, below common
High- Water Mark, any Earth, Sand, or Dirt, unless such Earth,
Sand, or Dirt, be first well secured by Stone- Walls, Dove-Tailed Log
Pens, or other Ways, so that no such Earth, Sand, or Dirt, may wash
into the said River, or navigable Branches thereof, to fill up the
Channel, or any way injure the Navigation of the said River, or
navigable Branches thereof, as aforesaid: And that every Person or
Persons so offending, shall, for every such Offence, forfeit and pay

Liber H. S.
No. I

[Earth,
Sand, or
Dirt, not to
be laid be-
low High
Water
Mark on
Patapsco.]

the Sum of Five Pounds Current Money; to be recovered before
One Magistrate, as in Case of small Debts; one Moiety of such For-
feiture to the Use of his Lordship the Lord Proprietary, for the
support of Government, the other to him, her, or them, that will sue
for the same.

[Penalty.]

16^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
Honourable the Lord
Proprietary of this Prov-
ince I will this be a Law
Hor.° Sharpe

the great seal in
Wax Appendant

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

No. 27 An Act continuing an Act entituled, An additional Supplementary
Act to the Act entituled, An Act for laying out and erecting a
Town at a Place called Long-Point, on the West Side of North-
East River in Caecil County.

p. 118

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 an Act of Assembly of this Province entituled, An addi-
tional Supplementary Act to the Act entituled, An Act for laying out
and erecting a Town at a Place called Long-Point, on the West Side
of North-East River, in Caecil County; made at a Session of Assem-
bly, begun and held, at the City of Annapolis, the Eighth Day of May,
Anno Domini One Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty, be, and is
hereby made perpetual.
And to the End that Proprietors of Water-Lots may be encour-
aged to build Wharfs, and other Conveniencies, for the better carry-
ing on and promoting of Trade in the said Town: Be it further
Enacted, by and with the Authority, Advice and Consent aforesaid,

[Preamble.]