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2 CHARLES Lord BALTIMORE.
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CHAP.
III.
And such Alteration
in
name, Stile
or Title shall
not be assignable
for Error. |
expressly mentioned in such Acts, instead of the Name or Title of our
Sovereign
Lord the King, his Heirs or Successors; any Thing therein, or in any
other Law to the contrary notwithstanding,
V. And be it
further Enacted, by the Authority, Advice and Consent aforesaid,
That for any Suits, Indictments or other Prosecutions, in the Name
of
his Lordship, or of his heirs or Successors, where, according to the
present
Form of those Laws, such Suits, Indictments, or other Prosecutions
ought
to have been made or prosecuted in the Name of his present Majesty,
his
Heirs or Successors, such Alteration or Difference of Name, Stile or
Title in
such Suits, Indictments or other Prosecutions, from what is express'd
in the
said Laws, shall be no way assigned or assignable for Error therein,
or be any
ways allowed or allowable as any Fault, Defect or Cause of Exception
thereto,
but that all such Exceptions or pretended Faults, or Causes of Error,
shall be and are hereby aided; any Law, Statute, Usage or Custom to
the
contrary notwithstanding.
Examined and Compared with the Original Act, REVERDY GHISELIN,
THOMAS BACON.
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CHAP. IV.
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Passed 10th
August 1716. |
An Act for confirming and making valid in Law, a Conveyance of Land
made by
Anthony Ivy, and Anne his Wife,
lately deceased, to Richard Moore, and Edith
his Wife, of Queen-Anne's County.
Lib. LL. Nº 4. fol. 291. PR.
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CHAP. V.
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An ACT for the better Security of the Peace and Safety of his
Lordship's Government, and the Protestant Interest,
within this
Province. Lib. LL. Nº 4. fol.
295.
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| Preamble. |
WHEREAS it appears to have been the just Sense of the Legislature
of Great-Britain, for some Years past, that the Safety of his Majesty's
Royal Person and Government, the Continuance of the
Monarchy of Great-Britain, the Preservation of the Protestant Religion,
the
Maintainance of the Church, the Security of the ancient and undoubted
Rights and Liberties, and the future Peace and Tranquility of the Kingdom,
do, (under GOD,) entirely depend upon the good and wholesome Laws heretofore
made for the Limitation and Succession of the Crown in the Protestant
Line, and the securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject. And
whereas the excluding all Persons from a Share in the Judicial and Ministerial
Offices in that Government, which they would not oblige themselves to defend,
by taking the several Oaths therein directed, has been thought an effectual
Step towards the obtaining the aforesaid happy Ends:
II. And whereas
this present General Assembly think themselves indispensably
obliged to do their Part in securing to his Lordship, (the Right Honourable
the Lord Proprietary) and the good People of this Province, their
Share in these inestimable Benefits, which are so vastly advantageous to
Great-Britain, and consequently agreeable to all the Dominions
thereto belonging,
but especially to us who are under the immediate Government of a
Protestant Lord Proprietor. And that nothing can be more effectual
to secure
to his Lordship the quiet and peaceable Enjoyment of his Government,
than the easing the Minds of the People, by having their Religion,
Liberty
and Property secured, which has of late been daringly threatened by Persons
disaffected ti the Protestant Succession, who have openly in Treasonable
Manner
taken upon them to give the pretended Prince of Wales, the Title
of King
of Great-Britain, and drunk his Health as such. And that no
better Expedient
can be found to obviate the wicked Designs and Expectations of such
disaffected Persons to our present happy Establishment, than to act (as
near
as may be,) to the great Pattern which the British Legislature has
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