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3 ANNE.
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CHAP.
LVI. |
V. And in
case any Minister, having the Charge of such liberty, shall be
removed form his Charge, he shall deliver the said Library to the Vestry
of
the said Parish, and make Satisfaction or Reparation, if any Damage or
Waste
suffered, before his Departure out of the said Parish, (except by Fire,
or
such unavoidable accident:) Or in case of the Death of any such Minister
having the Charge of such Library, the Vestry of such parish shall immediately
take the said Library into their Custody and Keeping, and pass their
Receipt
for the same, except by Fire, or such like Accident, as aforesaid.
VI. And for
the better preserving and Securing the said Libraries, it shall
and may be lawful for his Excellency the Governor of this Province, for
the
Time bring, to appoint one or more Visitors of the said Libraries within
this
Province, to report the true State of them to his Excellency the Governor
and Council, that they may make Orders to cause every one concerned about
the said Libraries, to do their Duties, to the effectual preserving of
them.
Examined and Compared with the Original Act, REVERDY
GHISELIN,
THOMAS BACON.
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CHAP. LVII.
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Passed 3d of
October 1704. |
An Act restraining the Extortions of Sheriffs, Sub-Sheriffs, and
Deputy-Commissaries
Lib. LL. N° 3. fol. 142. REP.
1715, ch. 46.
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CHAP. LVIII.
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An ACT for ascertaining the Bounds of a certain Tract of Land,
to the Use of the Nanticoke Indians, so long
as they shall occupy
and live upon the same. Lib. LL. N°
3. fol. 144.
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Preamble.
The Bounds
of a Tract of
Land in Dorchester
County
(to the Use of
the Nanticoke
Indians) settled:
And the
Lands confirmed
to them,
for ever.
under the
yearly Rent
of one Beaver
Skin. |
It being most just that the Indians, the ancient Inhabitants
of this Province,
should have a convenient Dwelling-Place, in this their native
Country, free from the Incroachments and Oppressions of the English;
more especially the Nanticoke Indians in Dorchester County,
who, for these
many Years have lived in Peace and Concord with the English, and
in all Matters
in Obedience to the Government if this Province: We the Burgesses
and Delegates of this present General Assembly, therefore do pray that
it
may be Enacted,
II. And be it Enacted
by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the
Advice and Consent of her Majesty's Governor, Council and Assembly of this
Province,
and the Authority of the same, That all the Land lying and being in
Dorchester County, and on the North Side of Nanticoke River,
butted and
bounded as followeth; (beginning at the Mouth of Chickawan Creek,
and
running up the said Creek, bounded therewith to the Head of the main
Branch of the same, and from the Head of the said main Branch, with a Line
drawn to the Head of a Branch issuing out of the North West Fork of
Nanticoke, known by the Name of Francis Anderton's Branch,
and from the
Head of the said Branch, down to the said Anderton's Branch, bounded
therewith,
to the Mouth of the same where it falls into the said North West
Fork: And from thence down the aforesaid North West Fork, bounded
therewith,
to the main River: And so down the main River to the Mouth of the
aforesaid Chickawan Creek;) shall be confirmed and assured, and,
by virtue
of this Act, it is confirmed and assured unto Panquash and Annotoughquam,
and
the People under their Government, or Charge, and their Heirs and Successors
for ever; any Law, Usage, Custom, or Grant, to the contrary in any
wise notwithstanding: To be held of the Lord Proprietary, and his Heirs,
Lord Proprietary or Lords Proprietaries of this Province, under the yearly
Rent of one Beaver Skin, to be paid to his said Lordship and his Heirs,
as
other Rents in this Province by the English used to be paid. |
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