Acts. 453

And be it further Enacted that the said Wood Corders shall cord
all such Wood as they shall be requested from Time to Time to cord
under the Penalty of two shillings and six pence Current Money for
every Neglect or Refusal to Cord such Wood as aforesaid
And be it further Enacted That all and every the Penalties and
Forfeitures in and by this Act set and appointed shall be recovered
before a single Magistrate as in Case of small Debts in the Name of
the Commissioners of the said Town and be by them laid out and
expended in mending the publick Wharfs and Streets in the said
Town

Liber H. S.
No. 1
[Wood-
Corders to
forfeit 2 s. 6
for every
Neglect of
Duty]
[Penalties
how recov-
ered and
applied]

And be it further Enacted that the said Commissioners or the
major Part of them shall be and are hereby impowered at any Time
to displace and remove any of the said Officers from their respective
Offices if the said Commissioners or the major Part of them shall
see Cause and shall and may nominate and appoint another fit Person
to such Office during the Residue of the Year who shall have Power
to execute the same Office according to the Directions of this Act
on his taking the said Oath of Office

[Commis-
sioners may
displace any
of the
Officers and
appoint
others]

Provided always and be it enacted That before any of the said
Officers shall enter on the Execution of their respective Offices they
shall take the several Oaths appointed by Law to be taken to the
Government and make repeat and subscribe the Oath of Abjuration
and the Test before some Justice of the Peace. This Act to continue
three Years and unto the End of the next Session of Assembly

[Officers to
take the
Oaths to the
Government,
&c.]

which shall happen after the End of the said three Years

[Continu-
ance]

By the Lower House of
Assembly 18.^th June 1768
Read & Assented to
Sign'd by 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° Sharpe

By the Upper House of
Assembly 18:^th June 1768
Read and Assented to
Signed by Order
UScott Cl. Up. Ho.

the Great Seal
in Wax Appendant

N:^o 16 An Act for the Adjournment and Continuance of Frederick County
Court

Whereas several of the Attorneys practising the Law and some
other persons having Business in the said Court are Members of the
Assembly and obliged to attend their Duty therein

[Preamble]

Be it therefore Enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Pro-
prietary by and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordships Gov-
ernor and the upper and Lower Houses of Assembly and the Author-
ity of the same That all Causes Pleas Process and Proceedings either
Civil or Criminal now depending in or returnable to the said County
Court of Frederick to be held on the third Tuesday of June in this
present Year shall be and are by Virtue of this Act adjourned and
continued from the said third Tuesday of June until the third Tues-
36

[Frederick
County
Court
adjourned]