| 1702. |
1 ANNE.
|
CHAP.
I. |
made in the Seventh and Eighth Years of the Reign of his present majesty,
entitled, An Act that the solemn Affirmation of Declaration of the
People
called Quakers, shall be accepted instead of an Oath in the usual
Form;
shall have
the full Benefit of all Exemptions, Ease and Indulgence, by the said
Acts
granted and allowed, according to the true Intent and Meaning of the
said
Acts; they respectively conforming themselves in their Meeting and
Assembling,
and in all other Things, to the Orders and Rules enjoined by the said
Acts; with this Alteration only, that the several Things required or
appointed
by the said Acts to be done, by or at the General or Quarter Sessions
of the
peace, or any other Court whatsoever, or by two, or to any one single
Justice
of the Peace, shall be done by, to, and at the respective County Courts
of this Province, within whose Jurisdiction the Matter shall fall out,
and before,
to, or by the Justices of the same: And that the several Places,
used
for Religious Worship by any such Dissenting Congregation or Assembly,
shall be certified unto, and register'd at the said County Court, in
the same
Manner as is by the said first mentioned Act appointed to be done to
the
Bishop of the Diocese, the Arch Deacon of the Arch Deaconry, and the
Justices
of the Peace at their General or Quarter Sessions.
XXII. Provided
also, and be it further Enacted, That one Act made at
a General Assembly, begun and held at the Port of Annapolis,
the Twenty-sixth
Day of April 1700, entitled An Act for the Service of Almighty
GOD,
and the Establishment of Religion in this Province, according to
the Church of
England, &c. be, and is hereby repealed and made void.
Examined and Compared with the Record, REVERDY GHISELIN,
THOMAS BACON.
|
|
CHAP. II.
|
Passed 25th
March 1702. |
An Act for Preservation of Orphans Real Estates. Lib. LL.
N° 2. fol. 411. |
|
CHAP. III.
|
| Ditto. |
An Act prohibiting Horse-Racing on Saturday. Lib. LL.
N° 2. fol. 413. EXP. |
|
CHAP. IV.
|
| Ditto. |
An Act for the Relief of Kent and Calvert Counties,
Lib. LL. N° 2. fol. 413. |
|
CHAP. V.
|
| Ditto. |
Petition of John Needles and Elizabeth his Wife, and
John
Sherrard and Lucy
his Wife, and of Mary Mann, Spinster,
all of Talbot County. Lib. LL. N°
2. fol. 415. PR.
Viz. Confirmation
of Edward Mann's Devise of 1140 Acres of Land at Kingston,
to be equally
divided between
his Daughters, which was signed and sealed, but not witnessed and proved. |
|
CHAP. VI.
|
| Ditto. |
An Act for the Naturalization of Hermanus Schee, Gent.
Isaac Vanbibber,
Gent. Matthias Vanbibber, Merchant,
and
Derrick Colieman, Planter, all
of Cæcil County; James Broord,
and
James Broord, John Broord, and
Solomon Broord, his Sons, of Kent County;
and
Sebastian Oley, of Ann-Arundel
County. Lib. LL. N° 2. fol.
417. PR. |
|
CHAP. VII.
|
| Ditto. |
An Act prohibiting the Abuses committed by Wood-Rangers. Lib.
LL.
N° 2. fol. 418. |
|
At a Session of ASSEMBLY, begun and held at the
Town and Port of Annapolis, on the 25th,
and ended
the 27th Day of June, in the first Year
of the
Reign of our Sovereign Lady Queen ANNE, &c.
Annoq; Domini 1702, was Enacted the following
Law. |
|
NATHANIEL BLAKISTON, Esq; Governor.
|
|
CHAP. VIII.
|
Passed 27th
June 1702. |
An Act apportioning the public Levy of this Province. |
|
 |
