154 Assembly Proceedings, November 17-December 20, 1769.

Liber R. G.
1769

That the funds appropriated for the use of the said School are
insufficient to purchase Ground and make the necessary Buildings
thereon and that there is a Convenient Vacancy for erecting the
said Buildings on the Lots Laid off for Public Uses in Frederick
Town and have prayed that an Act may pass to appropriate one half
Acre of the said Lots on the North West Corner of the Court House
for the Purpose aforesaid and the Justices of the said County have
Certified the Truth of the Facts set forth in the said Petition and
that the Prayer thereof might be granted with much Advantage to
the County in general and without Injury to any Individual.

p. 32

[Half an
Acre of
Ground in
Frederick-
Town, vested
in the Visit-
ors of Fred-
erick County
School, on
which a
House and
other Con-
veniencies to
be built.]

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 Au-
thority of the same That the Justices for the Time being of Fred-
erick County aforesaid shall during the Sitting of the County Court
cause to be Laid out and butted and bounded with Stones or good
Locust posts one half Acre of the said Lots laid off for Public Uses
in Frederick Town on the North West Corner of the said Court
House and a Certificate of the Lines and Boundaries of the said
half Acre of Ground shall cause to be entered on Record amongst the
Land Records of the said County which said one Half Acre of
Ground shall be and is hereby Vested in the Visitors of Frederick
County School and their Successors for ever to and for the use of

the said School And on the same half Acre of Ground shall be erected
and Built a House and other Conveniences for a County School of
the said County any former Act or Acts to the Contrary notwith-
standing —

By the Lower House of
Assembly Dec.^r 18.^th 1769.
Read & assented to.
Signed by order.
T. Wright Cl. lo: ho:

On behalf of the Right
Honourable the Lord Pro-
prietary of this Province.
I Will this be a Law
Rob.t Eden

By the Upper House of
Assembly Dec.^r 19.^th 1769.
Read & assented to
Signed by order.
U Scott Cl. Up: Ho:

Great Seal in
Wax Appendant

No. 18

A Supplementary Act to the Act entitled An Act ascertaining the
Height of Fences to prevent the Evil occasioned by the Multitude
of Horses and restraining Horse Rangers within this Province
and to redress the great Evil accruing to this Province by the
Multiplicity of useless Horses, Mares and Colts that run in the
Woods —

[Preamble,
reciting Part
of a former
Act.]

Whereas it is enacted by the above recited Act That whenever any
Horse Mare or Gelding shall break into any Corn Field or other
Inclosure and the owner be not known that then and in all such
Cases it shall and may be Lawful for the party grieved to take up