Acts. 91

the End of the next Session of Assembly that shall happen after the
End of the said three Years.

Liber B. L. C.

22^d June 1752
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 Cl Up Ho.

No. 12 An Act continuing: an Act entituled, "An Act continuing an Act
entituled, An Act for the speedy and effectual Publication of the
Laws of this Province, and for the Encouragement of Jonas
Green, of the City of Annapolis, Printer."

Bt 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 an Act of Assembly of this Province entituled, An Act
continuing an Act for the speedy and effectual Publication of the
Laws of this Province, and for the Encouragement of Jonas Green,
of the City of Annapolis, Printer, made at a Session of Assembly
begun and held at the City of Annapolis the eighth Day of May,

[An Act
continued.]

One thousand seven hundred and fifty, be and is hereby continued,
and shall be and remain in full Force until the first Day of December,
which shall be in the Year of our Lord Seventeen hundred and
fifty-three.

p. 566

[Continuance
of this Act.]

23.^d June 1752
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 Cl Up Ho.

No. 13 An Act for the Relief of such Persons as cannot find Surety for their
Appearance to testify as a Witness against any Person arrested,
accused, or prosecuted, for any Criminal Matter.

Whereas many indigent Persons, or Strangers, have been neces-
sarily, for Want of Sureties to appear as Witnesses, commuted to
Prison, by Means whereof such Persons have been often sold as
Servants for the Prison Fees arising upon such Commitment, or
otherwise detained in Prison for such Fees, to their great Damage
and Loss to the Public in the Labour of such Person or Persons :
Be it therefore Enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Pro-
prietary, by and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's

[Preamble.]