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Records thereof and all Executions and Process thereon shall be as
good valid and effectual to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever as
if the same had been heard adjudged determined and entered in
usual fform Any Law Usage or Custom to the contrary notwith-
standing

Liber H. S.

No. 1

And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the
Continuance of all such Causes as were not determined in the said
Court at March Court last shall and may by and with the Consent
and Direction of the Justices of the said County in Court sitting
be entered upon Record from March Court aforesaid as the Case
shall happen from Court to Court until March Court now next
ensuing for the said County inclusive and no longer except in Cases
where Evidence may be wanting beyond Sea at the Discretion of
the said Court Any Law Usage or Custom to the contrary notwith-
standing

[Causes not
determined
at March
Court last,
may with
the consent
of the Jus-
tices be en-
tered and
continued
from that
Time]

Provided always that nothing herein before contained shall extend
or be construed to extend to supply or make good any other Defect
or Irregularity than what hath necessarily followed from the Acci-
dent of the Fire aforesaid

[Proviso]

By the Lower House of
Assembly I4.^th June 1768
Read and Assented to
Sign'd p Order
T. Wright Cl: lo: ho:

On Behalf of the right
Honble the Lord Pro-
prietary of this Province
I will this be a Law
Hor:^o Sharpe

By the Upper House of
Assembly 14.^th June 1768
Read and Assented to
Signed by Order
UScott Cl. Up. Ho.

the Great Seal
in Wax Appendant

N.^o 4. An Act for the Preservation of the Breed of Fish

Whereas it is found by Experience that large Quantities of young
Fish unfit for use have been for many Years past killed and de-
stroyed by Wares Dams Pots and other Devices formed and erected
in the Rivers of Susquehannah and Patuxent for the taking of Fish

whereby great Quantities of Fish which were formerly to be found

and taken in said Rivers and other Rivers in this Province are much
diminished to the great Damage and Injury of the Public for Remedy
whereof

[Preamble]

Be it Enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary by
and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordships Governor and
the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly and the Authority of the
same That if any Person or Persons whatsoever from and after
the End of this Session of Assembly shall build set up repair or
maintain or shall be aiding assisting or abetting in building setting

up repairing or maintaining any such Wares Fishing Dams Putts

or any other Devices whatsoever for the taking of Fish within the
Rivers aforesaid by which the Fish may be obstructed from going

[Persons not
to build or
repair wears,
&c. for de-
stroying
Fish]