Acts. 209

Public and County Levies are paid any thing herein contained to the
Contrary Notwithstanding.

Liber R. G.
1773

By the Lower House of
Assembly Dec.^r 14.^th 1773
Read and Assented to
Signed by Order
John Duckett
Clk. Lo. Ho: .

5 Sides

[On behalf of the Right
Honourable the Lord
Proprietary of this Prov-
ince I will this be a Law
Rob^t Eden

The great Seal
in Wax appendant

By the Upper House of
Assembly Dec.r 15.^th 1773
Read and Assented to
Signed by Order
U. Scott Clk. Up. Ho.

No. 10 An Act for the Division of Dorchester and Queen Anns Counties
and for erecting a new one by the Name of Caroline

p. 249

Whereas a Considerable Body of the Inhabitants of Dorchester
and Queen Anns Counties by their Petition to this General Assembly
have prayed that an Act may be passed for a Division of the said
Counties and for erecting a new one out of Parts thereof
And whereas it appears to this General Assembly that the erecting
of a new County out of such Parts of Dorchester and Queen Anns
Counties will conduce greatly to the Ease and Convenience of the
People thereof.

[Preamble. 1

Be it therefore enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Pro-
prietary by and with the Advice and Consent of his Governor and
the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly and the Authority of
the same That after the Monday after the second Tuesday in March
next such Parts of the aforesaid two Counties of Dorchester and
Queen Anns as are contained within the Bounds and Limits follow-
ing to wit Beginning at a Point on the North Side of the Mouth
of Hunting Creek in Dorchester County and from thence running
up and with the said Creek to the Main Road at James Murray's
Mill thence with that Road by Saint Mary's White Chapel Parish
Church to the North West Fork Bridge thence with the Main Road
(that leads to Cannon's Ferry) to Nanticoke River thence with the
said River to and with the exterior Limits of the aforesaid County
of Dorchester to the exterior Limits of Queen Anns County thence
with the Limits of Queen Anns County to intersect the Main Road
that leads from the Beaver Dam Causeway to Dover Town in Kent
County upon Delaware thence with the said Road to the long Marsh
thence with the said Marsh and Stream of the Branch of Tuckahoe
to Tuckahoe Bridge thence with the said Creek to Great Choptank
River and with the said River to the first Beginning at the Mouth of
Hunting Creek shall be and is hereby erected into a new County by

[Bounds of
Caroline
County.]

the Name of Caroline County.
And be it enacted, that the Inhabitants of Caroline County afore-
said shall have hold and enjoy all such Rights and Privileges as
are held and enjoyed by the Inhabitants of any County in this
Province

Inhabitants
to enjoy the
same Privi-
leges as
those of
other
Counties.]