CHAP.
V.
Dorchester
County
Court-House. |
within the Angles aforesaid, as may be discovered from one to the other.
Which Posts, when and as often as they shall decay, the Commissioners shall
cause new Ones to be affixed in their Place, at the County Charge for ever.
And the respective Surveyors return two Certificates of such Survey, by
them
made as aforesaid, with fair Plats of the same, one whereof to his Excellency
the Governor and Council as aforesaid, the other to be Recorded and kept
in the
County Court as aforesaid; any Law, Statute, Custom, or Usage to the contrary
notwithstanding.
V. And be it
Enacted, by the Authority
aforesaid, by and with the Advice and
Consent aforesaid, That the
Lot whereon the Court-House of Dorchester
County now stands, together with the Tenements thereon, being formerly
taken up and purchased as Town-Land, but the Records of these Lots taken
up, being either embezzled, or casually lost, be and remain to the Use
of the
County for ever, as firmly and absolutely
as if the same had been actually
Conveyed by the true owner or Owners thereof; any Thing herein contained
to the contrary notwithstanding.
Examined and Compared with the Original Act, REVERDY
GHISELIN,
THOMAS BACON.
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Passed 11th
June 1697.
Preamble.
The several
Rooms in the
State-House,
how appropriated. |
An ACT directing and appointing to what Use the several Rooms
in the State-House, in the Town or Port of Annapolis,
shall
be applied to. Lib. LL. N° 2.
fol. 153.
WHEREAS this Province hath been at great Charge and Expences in
the Building a State-House, or Public House of Judicature, at this
Port of Annapolis, which is now almost finished and compleated;
and to the End that the said House and the several Rooms and Apartments
therein, may in Time present and to come, be applied and appropriated to
the Uses and Purposes the same was designed for, and no other;
II. Be it Enacted,
by the King's most excellent
Majesty, by and with the Advice
and Consent of this present General Assembly, and the Authority of the
same, That
the said State-House, and the several Rooms and Apartments therein, for
the
Time present and to come, be, and
is hereby appointed and appropriated to
the Uses and Purposes hereafter mentioned, and no other, That is to
say,
III. The
Great Room below Stairs, for Courts and Assemblies to sit in:
The Little Room below the Stairs, to be for a Magazine for every thing
but
Powder to lie in: The two Rooms on the Right hand above Stairs, for
Jury
and Committee Rooms: The two Rooms on the Left Hand, to be for Provincial
and Land-Office Records to be kept: And the Fore-Porch to be for
the Commissary's Office, and Records of Probat of Wills and Granting
Administrations, &c. to be kept in: The two Rooms on the Right Hand, in
the upper Lofts, One for the County Clerk to keep the County Court Records
in, and the Other for Annapolis Town Clerk to keep his papers in;
and
the other two Rooms on the Left Hand, One of them for keeping the Records
of the Chancery Court, and the other for keeping the Records of the Governor
and Council in one Part of it, and another part of the same Room, for
lodging of all Bonds, Bills, Certificates, Cockets, and other Naval Papers,
transmitted from the Collectors and Naval Officers of this Province:
To
which End and Purpose, all Naval Officers and Collectors, are by this Act,
bound and obliged to return to the Governor and Council, once in the Year,
That is to say, on the Tenth Day of June yearly, and in every
Year, all Cockets,
Bonds, Papers, and other Certificates lodged with them, or any of
them, by any persons as aforesaid, under Penalty of being proceeded against,
and punished, for such their Contempt. The Room above the Back-Porch
to be for the Clerk of the House of Delegates, to keep the Journals and
Papers |
