88 Assembly Proceedings, June 3-23, 1752.

Liber B. L. C.

by Fears or Threats of, or ill Usage by her Husband, or Fear of his
Displeasure; and the Mayor or Justice so taking such Adknowlege-
ment as aforesaid, and certifying the said Examination and Ac-
knowlegement, by an Indorsement upon such Deed or Writing, under
his Hand and the Seal of such Corporation, where taken before a
Mayor, or the Seal of the Province or Colony within his Majesty's
Dominions where taken; and a Certificate of such private Examina-
tion and Acknowledgement, so aforesaid to be taken and made, shall
be adjudged and deemed good and available in Law to all Intents,
Constructions, and Purposes whatsoever, to bar such Feme Covert
of her Right of Inheritance or Dower, as the Case may be, to the
said Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, according to the Pur-
port of such Deed or Acknowlegement, as fully and effectually as if,
at the Time of executing and acknowleging such Deed, she had
been residing within this Province, and had here made such Ac-
knowlegement agreeable to the Direction of the aforesaid Act, and
no further or otherwise; any Law, Usage, or Custom, to the contrary
in any wise notwithstanding¹.

22.^d June 1732
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
Benj." Tasker

the great seal in
Wax Appendant

23 June 1752
Read and Assented to
by the/Upper House of
Assembly/
Signed p Order
J. Ross G Up Ho.

No. 9

An Act for the destroying Squirrels and Crows in the several Coun-
ties therein mentioned.

[Additional
Number of
Squirrels
and Crows
Heads re-
quired for
each Tax-
able in the
Counties of
Somerset and
Worcester.]

p. 564

Be it Enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary, by
and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's President, and
the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the Authority of the
same, That from and after the first Day of August next, every
taxable Person or Persons within the Counties of Somerset and
Worcester shall, and they are hereby obliged, for every taxable per-
son they shall pay Levy for that Year, to produce to some Justice
of the Peace within the said Counties respectively, yearly and every
Year, three Scalps of Squirrels, or three Crows Heads, more than
directed by an Act entituled, An Act to encourage the destroying
Wolves, Crows, and Squirrels, under the like Penalty, upon Failure,
as directed by the former Act.

[Of Justices
receiving
such Scalps
or Heads.]

And be it likewise Enacted, That the Justice or Justices, before
whom such Scalps or Heads shall be so produced, shall give a Certi-
ficate of the Number of Scalps or Heads, to the Person or Persons so
producing the same; and also return to the then next November
Court, yearly, a List of the Number of Scalps and Heads to such
Justice or Justices produced, and by whom, and the respective Jus-
tices before whom such Scalps or Heads shall be produced, shall,