398 Assembly Proceedings, June 15-July 3, 1773.

Liber R. G.

1773
[Streets, &c.
already laid
out, not to
be altered.]

It is hereby enacted that the same be confirmed and that nothing
in this Act shall extend or be construed to extend to authorize or
empower the said Commissioners or any of them to alter or change
the same; and that the said Streets, Lanes, and Alleys already laid
out and which shall hereafter be laid out in pursuance of this Act
shall be Highways and be so deemed and taken to all Intents and pur-
poses whatsoever.

[Commis-
sioners to
cause a Sur-
rey and Plat
to be made
and recorded
amongst the
County
Records,
&c.]

And be it further enacted that the Commissioners aforesaid or
the Major part of them shall on or before the first Day of December
next cause a correct and accurate Survey and Plat to be made of
the said Eighty Acres of Land or thereabouts and of all the Lots
Streets Lanes and Alleys which are now laid out on the same and
which shall be hereafter laid out in Virtue of this Act and the said
Plat shall by the order and Direction of the Justices of Baltimore
County cause to be recorded amongst the Records of the said
County on or before the first Day of April next there to remain as
Evidence of the Boundaries Situation and Location of the said Lots
and of the Streets Lanes and Alleys aforesaid and that when the
same shall be done the said Eighty Acres of Land or thereabouts
shall be and are hereby declared to be part of Baltimore Town
aforesaid to all intents and purposes whatsoever as fully and amply
as if included Originally therein and have the same immunities and
privileges as the rest of the said Town has or by former Laws
ought to have
Saving to his most Sacred Majesty his Heirs and Successors and
all Bodies Politick and Corporate and all others not mentioned in
this Act their several and respective Rights.

By the Lower House of
Assembly June 28.^th 1773.
Read and Assented to.
Signed by Order
Jn.^o Duckett Cl. Lo. Ho.

On Behalf of the right
Honourable the Lord
Proprietary of this Prov-
ince I Will this be a Law.
Rob.^t Eden

By the Upper House of
Assembly June the 28.^th
1773 Read and Assented
to
Signed by Order
U Scott Cl. Up. Ho.

the great Seal
in Wax appendant

No. 5

[Preamble.]

An Act to prevent counterfeiting the paper Money of other Colonies

Whereas the want of a sufficient Quantity of circulating Specie to
Answer the Purposes of Commerce or the Exigencies of Govern-
ment hath induced this and most others of the British Colonies in
America to circulate certain Paper Notes as the Representative of
Specie to pass in payments for limited Periods when the Redemption
is provided for the counterfeiting of which is usually made Felony
in the respective Governments where they are emitted but it is sup-
posed that sundry evil minded persons have lately established Presses
in some of the Colonies for preparing Counterfeits of the paper