526 Assembly Proceedings, Feb. 23-May 22, 1756.

Liber H. S.

No. 1

Tobacco, exclusive of the Sheriff's Salary of Five per Centum for
collecting the same, to be paid in such Manner as other Public and
County Levies are now paid and discharged, for the making and com-
pleating a good, commodious, and convenient Road and Causeway,
through the said Vienna-Marsh, from the last Land down to the
River Nanticoke, opposite to Vienna-Town, in Dorchester County ;
the said Road or Causeway, to have a good and sufficient Founda-
tion of Wood, raised to an Heighth not to be overflowed by the
Water from the said River, and of twelve Feet wide at the least
upon the Top, well sanded, with one or more turning Places thereon :
And the said Justices are by this Act also impowered and required,
at June or August Court next to contract and agree with some proper
Person, or Persons, for the undertaking and performing the Work,
and to take a Bond from such Contractor or Undertaker, with good
Security, in a sufficient Penalty, at the Direction of the said Justices,
payable unto the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary, and
conditioned for the well and sufficient making the said Road or
Causeway, and compleating and finishing the said Work, in such
Manner as herein before directed.
And be it further Enacted, That when the said Road or Causeway,

[Overseers
to be ap-
pointed, to
keep the said
Road in
good
Repair.]

shall be so made, compleated, and finished as aforesaid, the Justices
aforesaid are directed and required to appoint a proper Person Over-
seer of the same, with a sufficient Number of the Inhabitants next
adjacent, under his Direction, to keep, take care of, and by their own
Labour maintain, support, and keep the said Road or Causeway in
good Repair, in the same Manner that other Roads are or ought to be
kept, without any further Tax upon the said County, under the like
Pains and Penalties of such Overseer, and the People under him,
for' Neglect or Omission of their respective Duties, as directed and
appointed by the Laws now in Force, relating to other Public Roads,
or Highways; any Thing in this, or any other Act, to the contrary,

p. 260

notwithstanding.

19 ^th April 1756 On behalf of the Right 19 April 1756
Read and Assented to Honourable The Lord Read and assented to
By the Lower house of Proprietary of this Prov- by the Upper house of
Assembly ince I will this be a Law Assembly
Signed p order Hor.^o Sharpe Signed p. order
MMacnemara Cl lo ho JRoss Cl Up Ho.

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No. 9

An Act for quieting the Differences that have arisen, and may here-
after arise, between the Inhabitants of this Province and the
several Indian Nations, and for punishing Trespasses committed
on their Lands.

[Preamble.]

Whereas the several Laws of this Province do not sufficiently
provide for quieting the Differences that have arisen, and may here-
after arise, between the Inhabitants of this Province and the several