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JOHN SEYMOUR, Esq; Governor.
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1704. |
same; to be recovered by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint, or Information,
in
any Court of Record of this Province, wherein no Essoin, Protection,
or
Wager of Law to be allowed.
Examined and Compared with the Original Act, REVERDY GHISELIN,
THOMAS BACON. |
CHAP.
XXXIV. |
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CHAP. XXXV.
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An Act directing the Manner of Electing and Summoning Delegates
and Representatives
to serve in succeeding Assemblies. Lib.
LL. N° 3. fol. 90. REP.
1705, ch. 5. |
Passed 3d of
October 1704. |
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CHAP. XXXVI.
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An Act to make valid, good and effectual in the Law, all Manner
of Process and
Proceedings in the several Courts of the Province,
from the Year 1690, to the
Year 1692; and also from the Death of
Lyonel Copley, Esq; late Governor
of this Province, to the Arrival of Francis
Nicholson, Esq; Governor thereof;
and from the Demise of his late majesty King
William the Third, to this
present Time. Lib. LL. N°
3. fol. 93. |
Ditto. |
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CHAP. XXXVII.
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An Act providing what shall be good Evidence to prove foreign and
other Debts,
and to prevent vexations and unnecessary Suits
at Law, and pleading Discounts
in Bar. Lib. Ll. N° 3. fol.
95. REP. 1715, ch. 49; and 1719,
ch. 16. |
Ditto. |
A new Law made 1715, ch. 29.
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CHAP. XXXVIII.
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An AcT for the confirming Titles of Land give to the Use of
the Churches and several Chapels within this Province,
impowering
the Commissioners of the respective Counties, and
Vestries of the respective Parishes, to take up certain
Parcels of
Land for the Use of the same. Lib. LL.
N°3. fol. 99. |
Ditto. |
See another Act for Confirmation of Church Lands,
1722, ch. 4.
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WHEREAS several pious and well-disposed Persons, have given and
granted unto the respective parishes whereto they do belong, certain
Parcels of Ground, for the use and Benefit of a Church and
Church-Yard; which said land, through the Neglect of the Vestries, who,
by an Act of Assembly of this Province, made at a Session of Assembly,
held
at the Port of Annapolis, the Twentieth Day of July, Anno Domini
One
Thousand Six Hundred Ninety and Six, entitled, An Act for the Service
of
Almighty GOD, and Establishment of the Protestant Religion, were capacitated
and impowered, by the Names of the principal Vestry-man, and the Rest of
his Brethren Vestry-men of such Parish, to take and receive any Deed of
Gift for the same, notwithstanding the Charges of the respective Parishes
in
building Churches or Chapels thereon, is like to be lost, or the Title
thereunto
very disputable, for Want of such Deed of Gift or Conveyance enrolled
and recorded, as by an Act of Assembly is required; the first Donors ot
Grantors thereof being dead, and the Heirs of such Donors or Grantors,
either
refusing to make over such Land as aforesaid, or under Age, not capable
of so doing.
II. Be it therefore Enacted,
by the Queen's most excellent Majesty, by and
with he Advice and Consent of her Majesty's Governor, Council, and Assembly
of this Province, and the Authority of the same, That all such lands
have formerly
been given to the Use of any Church or Chapel, and for which the
Donors or Grantors thereof, in their Life Times have not made a Deed of
Gift for the same, or otherwise refused so to do, and in Confidence of
whose
Promise the Parish have been at the Charge of Erecting and Building their
Churches thereon, be and remain to the Use of the Parish for ever, against
all Claims, and Pretensions of Claims made, or that hereafter shall be
made,
by such Donors or Grantors, or his or their Heirs, Executors or Assigns,
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Preamble.
The Titles of
Lands formerly
given
for the Use of
Churches,
confirmed to
the respective
Parishes,
notwithstanding
the Want of
Deeds and
Enrolment. |
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