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18.
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An Act for enrolling of Grants. Ibid. fol. 33. |
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19.
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An Act for the Peopling of the Province. Ibid. fol. 34. |
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N.B. By
this Bill, if any Persons (to whom Manors, Lands or Tenements, should be
Granted
by the Lord Proprietary) should not for three whole Years
together, have so many able Persons,
being Christians, settled, &c. in or upon
the same Land, as are mentioned in the original
Grant thereof to be the Consideration of granting the
same, his Lordship was impowered to
Grant or Lease any Part or Parts of such unoccupied Lands,
to any other Person, for a Life,
or Seven Years, and to receive the Fine and first year's
Rent. |
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20.
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An Act for Succession to Goods. Ibid. |
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21.
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An Act for Recovering of Debts. Ibid. fol. 38. |
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22.
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An Act for Treasons. Ibid. fol. 45. |
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N.B. By this Bill the following
Offences were to be adjudged Treasons within this Province,
viz. To compass or conspire the Death of
the King, or the Queen his Wife, or of his
Son and Heir; or to levy War against his Majesty, or
to counterfeit the King's Great or Privy
Seal, or his Coin; or to join or adhere to any foreign
Prince or State, being a professed Enemy
of his Majesty, in any Practice or Attempt against his
said majesty: Or to compass, conspire,
or cause the Death of the Lord Proprietary within this
Province, or of his Lieut. General for
the Time being, (in Absence of his Lordship) or to join,
adhere or confederate with any Indians,
or any foreign Prince or Governor to the invading of
this Province, or disinheriting the Lord
Proprietary of his Seigniory and Dominion therein.
All Offences of Treason to be punished by
Drawing, Hanging and Quartering of a Man, and Burning
of a Woman; the Offender's Blood
to be corrupted, and to forfeit all his Lands, Tenements,
Goods, &c. to his Lordship. But
Punishment of Death to be inflicted on a Lord of a Manor
by Beheading. |
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23.
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An Act for Felonies. Ibid. fol. 46. |
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24.
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An Act allowing Book to certain Felonies. Ibid. fol. 47. |
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25.
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An Act for determining enormous Offenses. Ibid. fol. 48. |
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26.
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An Act what Persons shall be called to every General Assembly. Ibid.
fol. 50. |
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N.B. By this Act (which was
intended to be perpetual) every member of the Council, and
any other Gentlemen of able Judgment and Quality summoned
by his Lordship's Writ, and the
Lord of every Manor within the Province, together with
one, two, or more able and sufficient
Men (as the Freemen should think good) elected for each
Hundred, in pursuance of Writs issued
for calling any General Assembly, and no other, should
have a Voice, Seat and Place in such
General Assembly. And every Act therein made by
Persons so called, elected, &c. or the majority
of them, and assented to by the Lord Proprietary, &c.
or his Lieut. General thereunto Authorized
by special Warrant from his Lordship, &c.
to be of as good Force,
&c. as if his Lordship
and all the Freemen in the Province, had been personally
present at such General Assemblies, and
had consented to and approved of the making and enacting
such laws, &c. Provided that all
acts so approved by the Freemen, and by the Lieut. General
in his Lordship's Name, should be
of Force until the Lord Proprietary should signify his
Dissent to the same under the Great Seal,
and nor further or longer. |
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27.
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An Act concerning the Calling of General Assemblies. Ibid.
fol. 52. |
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N.B. By this Bill (intended
to be perpetual) Assemblies were to be called once in every
three Years at the least, &c. and the Freemen
assembled therein, to have the like Power, Privilege,
Authority and Jurisdiction, in Causes and Matters arising
within this Province, as the
House of Commons in England have had, used or
enjoyed, or of Right ought to have, use or enjoy,
in any Matters &c. which have at any Time
happened or risen within the Realm of England. |
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28.
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An Act for the Building of the Town-House. Ibid. fol.
53. |
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29.
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An Act for the Public Ports. Ibid. |
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N.B. By this Bill, no
Person shall Ship or Unlade Goods, &c. but only at or in such
Creeks
or Ports as shall from Time to Time be appointed by the
Lord Proprietary, or his Lieut. General,
on Forfeiture of the Goods, &c. so shipped
or unladen. |
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30.
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An Act that all Accomptants to the Lord Proprietary shall account upon
Oath. Ibid. fol. 54. |
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31.
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An Act for Military Discipline. Ibid. fol. 55. |
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32.
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An Act for a Ferry upon St. George's River. Ibid. fol.
56. |
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33.
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An Act for Planting of Corn. Ibid. fol. 57. |
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34.
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An Act for Measures and Weights. Ibid. fol. 58. |
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35.
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An Act for limiting the Times of Servants. Ibid. fol. 59. |
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36.
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An Act for a Custom on certain Tobaccoes. Ibid. fol. 60. |
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Viz. Five per Cent on all Tobaccoes
Exported (except to England, Ireland, and Virginia) to the
Lord Proprietary.
This Bill was intended to be perpetual.
All the above Bills [except N°.
1, 26, 27, 28, and 36,] were to be in Force to the end of
the next General
Assembly.
Memorandum. On the 28th
of February, one John Richardson was Tried, found Guilty,
and
Sentenced by the Assembly for Flight, and carrying away
of Goods unlawfully from his Master.
The reason of which mode of Proceeding was the same as
that taken notice of in the note on
N°. 32, in the Year 1637, viz. the want of
Power by the Provincial Laws to punish with Loss
of Life or Member. For the Act ch. 2, of
this Section was not made till the 19th of March following. |
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