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6 CÆCILIUS Lord BALTIMORE
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1637. |
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At a GENERAL ASSEMBLY, begun and held at
St. Mary's, on the 25th Day of January,
1637,
and ended the 24th Day of March following. |
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The Hon. LEONARD CALVERT, Esq; Lieut. General.
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N. B. In this Assembly
(the First of which any Record appears in this Province) the Freemen,
having rejected a Body of Laws drawn up in England
and transmitted by his Lordship in
order to be passed here, appointed a Committee to prepare
a Draught of Laws to be propounded
to his Lordship for his Assent; and accordingly agreed
to the Bills whose Titles are hereafter expressed:
But they were never Enacted into Laws; nor are any Copies
of them, or of those sent
in by his Lordship, to be found in our Records. |
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A BILL for dividing of the Province. |
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2.
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A Bill for Bounding of Manors. |
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A Bill for Assigning of Manors. |
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4.
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A Bill for the Order to be observed in the Assignments. |
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5.
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A Bill for the Peopling of Manors. |
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6.
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A Bill for the Supporting of Manors. |
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7.
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A Bill for settling of the Glebe. |
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8.
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A Bill against aliening of Manors. |
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9.
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A Bill for Baronies. |
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10.
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A Bill for Assigning of Freeholds. |
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11.
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A Bill for the Demesnes of the Lord Proprietary. |
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12.
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A Bill for the Building of the Town. |
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13.
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A Bill for the Erecting of a Fort. |
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14.
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A Bill for Planting of Corn. |
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15.
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A Bill for Restraint of Liquors. |
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16.
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A Bill for Military Discipline. |
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17.
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A Bill for ordering the Payment of Tobacco. |
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18.
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A Bill for Services to be performed for Manors and Freeholds. |
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19.
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A Bill for Assurance of Titles to Lands. |
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20.
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A Bill for the Liberties of the People. |
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21.
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A Bill for swearing Allegiance to our Sovereign, &c. |
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22.
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A Bill for descending of Land. |
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23.
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A Bill for Succession to the Goods of the deceased Intestate. |
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24.
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A Bill for Public Ports. |
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25.
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A Bill touching General Assemblies. |
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26.
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A Bill for the Probate of Wills. |
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27.
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A Bill for Civil Causes. |
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28.
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A Bill for Payment of Debts contracted out of the Province |
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29.
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A Bill for Punishment of ill Servants. |
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30.
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A Bill for the Attainder of William Cleyborne. |
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31.
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A Bill for the limiting the Times of Service. |
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32.
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A Bill for confirming the Sentence against * Thomas Smith. |
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* This Smith, having committed
Piracy, was Arraigned, Tried, found Guilty, and sentenced
to Death by this Assembly. The reason of which
Proceeding was, that the Lieutenant-General
having no Power by his Commission to punish with Loss
of life or Member, unless by Laws
to be made in the Province, and no such Laws being made,
it was necessary, for the due Execution
of Justice, that the whole Legislative Body should concur
in this Man's Condemnation. |
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33.
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A Bill for Corn Measures. |
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34.
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A Bill for Fees. |
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35.
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A Bill for Payment of Forfeitures. |
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36.
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A Bill for Treasons. |
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37.
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A Bill for Capital Offences. |
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38.
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A Bill allowing Clergy to some Capital Offences. |
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39.
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A Bill for arbitrary Punishment of enormous Offences. |
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40.
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A Bill for Punishment of certain Crimes in the County Court. |
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41.
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A Bill for Punishment of lesser Crimes. |
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42.
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A Bill for Support of the Lord Proprietary. |
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