230 Assembly Proceedings, November 16-December 23, 1773.

Liber R. G.
1773

said County shall be returned by the Magistrate taking such Recog-
nizance before the Justices aforesaid and shall be lodged by the
said Justice with the Clerk of the said County on the Day before the
Day appointed for the holding of the said Court and the Offenders
and Witnesses shall be obliged to appear by Virtue of such Recog-
nizances accordingly

[Witnesses
making De-
fault to be
fined and
compelled to
attend.]

And be it enacted that every Person summoned as a Witness to
attend the said Court and making Default shall be fined by the
Justices aforesaid in their Discretion a Sum not exceeding one
thousand pounds of Tobacco to be rated and applied as aforesaid
and on Default of any Witness the said Justices may award Process
of Attachment and by Virtue thereof the Sheriff of the said County
shall be obliged to have the Body of such Witness and may compel
his Attendance before the same Justices

[Allowances
to Wit-
nesses for
their At-
tendance.]

And be it enacted That it shall and may be Lawful for the said
Justices to allow to every Person legally summoned to give Evidence
before them Twenty four Pounds of Tobacco for every Days At-
tendance and if such Witness resides out of the said County the
said Justices may allow him for so many Days itinerant Charges as
they shall think reasonable at the Rate of forty Pounds of Tobacco
per Day and the same shall be paid in the same Manner as Allow-
ances to Witnesses in Criminal Cases are by Law directed to be paid.

[Continu-
ance.]

This Act to continue for two Years and unto the End of the
next Session of Assembly which shall happen after the End of the
said two Years.

By the Lower House of
Assembly Dec.^r 18.^th 1773
Read and assented to
Signed by Order
Jn.^o Duckett Cl. Lo. Ho.

10 1/2 Sides

On Behalf of the right
Honble the Lord Pro-
prietary of this Province
I will this be a Law
Robert Eden

The great Seal
in Wax appendant

By the Upper House of
Assembly Dec.^r 18.^th 1773
Read and assented to
Signed by Order
U Scott Clk Up. Ho.

No. 21

p. 273
[Preamble.]

An Act for an Addition to Baltimore Town in Baltimore County —
Whereas John Moale and Andrew Stigar of Baltimore Town
by their humble Petition to this General Assembly have set forth
That the said John Moale is seised in fee simple of a Lot of Land
lying contiguous to the said Town and bounded in the following
Manner Beginning at the East Corner of the Lot of Land Number
Sixty five on Bridge Street in the first Addition to Baltimore Town
on the East Side of Jones's Falls and running thence North forty nine
Degrees East twenty Perches North forty one Degrees West fifty
two Perches South fifty eight Degrees West twenty Perches and
the fourth Part of a Perch unto the North Corner of the Lot of
Land Number seventy one in the aforesaid Addition to Balti-
more Town and then bounding on and with the said Addition