Acts. 255

Provided always, And be it enacted That before the said Officer
shall enter upon the Execution of his Office he shall take the several
Oaths or Affirmations appointed by Law to be taken to the Govern-
ment & repeat & subscribe the Oath of Abjuration & the Test before
some Justice of the Peace.

Liber R. G.
i77i
[Proviso.]

This Act to continue three Years & unto the End of the next
Session of Assembly which shall happen after the End of the said
three Years.

[Continu-
ance.]
p. 119

By the Lower House of
Assembly November 8.^th
1771. Read & assented to.
Signed by Order,
Jn.^o Duckett Cl. Lo. Ho.

On Behalf of the Right
Honble the Lord Pro-
prietary of this Province
I will this be a Law.
Rob.^t Eden.

By the Upper House of
Assembly Nov.^r 8.^th 1771.
Read & assented to.
Signed by Order,
U Scott Cl. Up. Ho.

The Great Seal

in Wax appendant

No. 16 A Supplementary Act to the Act entitled an Act to enable the Justices
of Dorchester County Court to assess & levy on the Taxable In-
habitants of the said County, a Quantity of Tobacco for the
Purpose of Building a Court House.

Whereas by the said Act it was directed that a new Court House
for the said County should be erected & Built on the most convenient
Part of the Public Ground where the present Court House now
stands.
And Whereas by the said Act the Materials of the old Court
House were not to be sold, nor was the Clerk of the said County
empowered to remove the Records of the said County until the new
Court House was built finished & compleated.

And Whereas it is represented to this General Assembly that the
Publick Ground on which the present Court House stands is too small
to erect the new Court House so as to make it a commodious &
convenient Building, that the said Ground wants an Addition of
thirty Feet in Front & forty five Feet in Depth, that the Lot adjoin-
ing to the said Ground is the Property of Henry Ennalls Son &
Heir of Henry Ennals late of the said County deceased, who is now
a Minor under the Age of twenty one Years, That Part of the said
Lot may be conveniently applied to make up the said Deficiency &
it appearing to this General Assembly, that the Guardian & the
nearest Friends & Relations of the said Henry Ennals have given

[Preamble,
reciting Part
of a former
Act.]

their Assent & Approbation that Part of the said Infant's Lot may
be applied for that Purpose for the Consideration of forty Pounds
Current Money.
Be it therefore enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Pro-
prietary by & with the Advice & Consent of his Lordships Gov-
ernor & the Upper & Lower Houses of Assembly & the Authority
of the same, That the Clerk of the said County shall at some con-
venient Time before the first Day of June next remove or cause to

[Clerk of
Dorchester
County to
remove
Records, &c.
to such
House in
Cambridge
as the
Justices shall
appoint, &c.]