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3 ANNE.
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CHAP.
LXXIV.
Persons presuming
to exact more, forfeit
2000 lb
of Tobacco. |
Clerks and Officers belonging to the Assembly, for Naturalization and
other
private Laws, be such as shall be allowed and adjudged by the respective
Assemblies
when and where such Persons shall be Naturalized, and such Bill
Passed.
III. And, That
no Person whatsoever, presume to demand or exact any
more Fees of any such Persons naturalized, or for whom such private Act
shall pass, than what are so allowed, and to be allowed; under that Penalty
of
Two Thousand Pounds of Tobacco to every such Person exacting or extorting
more than what is or shall be allowed by such Assembly assessing the Fees
as aforesaid. The said Forfeiture to be recovered in any Court of
Record in
this Province, by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint, or Information, wherein
no
Essoin, Protection, or Wager of Law to be allowed. The one Half to
her
Majesty, for the Support of the Government of this Province, the other
Half
to the Party grieved.
Examined and Compared with the Original Act, REVERDY GHISELIN,
THOMAS BACON.
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CHAP. LXXV.
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Passed 3d of
October 1704. |
An Act for Amercements in the Provincial and County Courts.
Lib. LL. N°3.
fol. 167. OBS. |
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A new Law made 1715, ch. 41.
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CHAP. LXXVI.
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Ditto.
* 1697, ch. 5. |
An ACT confirming Purchases made by the Commissioners of the
respective Counties by virtue of a former Act of Assembly,
entitled, * An Act impowering the Commissioners of
each respective
Counties, to purchase Land for Use of their respective
Courts, &c. Lib. LL. N° 3. fol.
168.
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Preamble reciting
the Act
of 1697, ch.
5.
Purchases of
Lands under
that Act confirmed.
The Lot, &c.
whereon Dorchester
Court-house
stands,
confirmed to
that County. |
WHEREAS, at a General Assembly, held at the Port of Annapolis,
the Twenty-sixth Day of May One Thousand Six Hundred Ninety-seven,
a certain Act of Assembly was made, entitled, An Act
impowering the Commissioners of each respective County to purchase Lands
for the
Use of their respective Courts, which is now executed.
II. 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 what Purchases of Lands the Commissioners
had made according to the said Act, for the Use of the respective
Counties, and recorded within the several and respective County Courts
whereunto
they properly belong, shall be a perpetual Bar against him her, or
them, from whom the Land was purchased, and against all persons claiming
by, from, or under him, her, them, or any of them, for ever.
III. And be it
further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That the Lot
whereon the Court-house of Dorchester now stands, and the Tenement
thereon,
remain to the Use of that County for ever, as by the last paragraph of
the said Act is more at large expressed.
Examined and Compared with the Original Act, REVERDY
GHISELIN,
THOMAS BACON.
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CHAP. LXXVII.
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Passed 3d of
October 1704. |
An ACT repealing all former Acts of Assembly heretofore made,
saving what are hereby excepted. Lib. LL. N°
3. fol. 169.
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A general Repeal
of all
Acts made before
April
Session in this
Year. |
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 and every Act and Acts |
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