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JOHN HART, Esq; Governor.
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it shall and may be lawful for any person whatsoever, to shoot, or
otherwise
kill and destroy such Horse or Colt, without being accountable or answerable
to the Owner or Owners of such Horse and Colt, or any other Person
or Persons
whatsoever, in any Action or Suit whatsoever. And in case any person
or
Persons shall at any Time be sued for any such shooting, killing or destroying
as aforesaid, it shall and may be lawful for such person to give this Act
in Evidence upon the General Issue; any Law, Statute or Custom to the contrary
notwithstanding.
XIII. And
be it further Enacted, by
the Authority, Advice and Consent aforesaid,
That after the End of this
present Session of Assembly, it shall not be
lawful for any Person, not having Land of his own, nor renting a Plantation,
to keep any breeding Mare or Mares in the Woods, upon the Penalty
of Six Hundred Pounds of Tobacco for every breeding Mare by such Person
owned and kept; the one Half of which Fines to go to his Majesty, towards
defraying the County Charge where such Offender shall reside, the other
Half
to the Informer, or him or them that shall sue for the same; to be recovered
by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint or Information, wherein no Essoin, Protection
or Wager of Law to be allowed.
Examined and Compared with the Original Act, REVERDY GHISELIN,
THOMAS BACON.
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CHAP.
XXXI.
loose in the
Woods, &c.
may be shot,
&c.
Persons sued,
may plead the
General Issue.
Penalty on
Persons having
no Lands,
and keeping
any breeding
Mare in the
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CHAP. XXXII.
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An ACT for securing Persons Rights to Town Lands. Lib.
LL.
Nº 4. fol. 183.
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Passed 3d
June 1715. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this
General Assembly, that several
Persons of this province, and Others, that have taken up Lots in
several Town Lands, laid out and surveyed for Towns according
to the Directions of several Laws of this Province heretofore made, (That
is to say,) One Law made at a General Assembly, held at the Ridge in
Ann-Arundel
County, the Second Day of October, One Thousand Six Hundred
Eighty-three, entitled, An Act for Advancement of Trade; and One
other
Act made at a General Assembly held at the City of St. Mary's, the
First
Day of April, One Thousand Six Hundred and Eighty-four, entitled,
An
Additional and Supplementary Act to the Act for Advancement of Trade;
and the other Act made at a General Assembly held at the City of St.
Mary's, the
Twenty-seventh Day of October, One Thousand Six Hundred Eighty-six,
entitled, A further Additional Act to the Act for Advancement of Trade,
and
the Supplementary Acts of the same; and one other Act made at a Session
of Assembly
begun and held at the City of St. Mary's, the Twenty-first Day of
September, Anno Domini One Thousand Six Hundred Ninety-four, entitled,
An Act for erecting Ann-Arundel and Oxford Towns, into
Ports and Towns,
as by the several Acts of Assembly remaining upon Record, in the Secretary's
Office of this Province, may appear. And notwithstanding the several
Persons,
who (relying and depending upon the Benefits and Privileges in the
said Laws granted) have taken up Lots in the said Towns, entered them and
paid for them, or were ready to pay for them, as the Law directed, and
have
built and improved thereon; yet
they are now threatened, disquieted and disturbed
by the Persons claiming Right to the said Lands, upon Pretence, that
because the said Acts are since repealed, the Titles of such Takers-up,
Builders
and improvers, are destroyed, and die with the said Acts of Trade, contrary
to the true Sense and rational Construction of the same Laws, or any
other of like Nature: To prevent therefore, and take off all such
unnecessary
Doubts and Scruples thereof;
II. Be
it Enacted, by the King's
most excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and
Consent of his Majesty's Governor,
Council, and Assembly of this Province,
and the Authority of the same, That
all and every Person or Persons,
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Preamble, reciting
several
acts relating
to Town
Lands, on
which, tho'
since repealed,
much
Property, depends,
viz.1683, ch. 5.
1684, ch. 2.
1686, ch. 2.
1694, ch. 8.
The Titles of
all Persons to
Town Lands
taken up,
paid for, &c.
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