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2 and 3 CHARLES Lord BALTIMORE.
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CHAP.
II.
Collectors
and Naval
Officers to
put up Tables
of Fees in
their Offices. |
and shall make a fair Table of their Fees, and put up in their several
Offices,
under the Penalty of Fifty Pounds Sterling, the One Half thereof to the
Lord
Proprietary, for the Support of his Lordship's Government, and the other
half to the Informer, or to him or them that shall sue for the same; to
be
recovered in any Court of Record within this Province, 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. III.
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Passed 8th
June 1717. |
An Act for the Relief of George Walls, a languishing Prisoner
in Charles County.
Lib. LL. Nº 4. fol. 355.
PR.
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CHAP. IV.
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| Ditto. |
An Act for the Adjournment of Baltimore and Talbot County
Courts. Lib. LL.
Nº 4. fol. 358.
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CHAP. V.
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| Ditto. |
An Act impowering a Committee to lay, sases and apportion the Public
Levy for
this present Year One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventeen.
Lib. LL. Nº
4. fol. 359.
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CHAP. VI.
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| Ditto. |
An Act for building a Court-House on Long-Point, on Bohemia
Manor, and on
the East Side of a Creek called Broad-Creek,
on Elk River, in Cæcil County.
Lib. LL. Nº 4. fol. 360.
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CHAP. VII.
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| Ditto. |
An Act ascertaining the Gauge and Tare of Tobacco hogsheads, and
to prevent
Cropping, Cutting and Defacing Tobacco taken on board
Ships or Vessels upon
Freight; and for laying Impositions on Tobacco per the
Hogshead, for the Support
of Government, and for the Encouraging Settlements in
this Province by
ascertaining the Manner of paying his Lordship's Alienation
Fines, and Quit-Rents,
for the Term therein proposed, and for taking off the
three pence per
Hogshead formerly raised for the Public Charge,
Lib. LL. Nº 4. fol. 361.
EXP.
To be in Force till the 29th September
1720; continued 1720, ch. 9; 1721, ch. 3; 1723, ch.
2; 1726, ch. 4; 1729, ch. 5; farther continued in PArt
by 1730, ch. 7; and totally expired
29th September 1732.
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CHAP. VIII.
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| Ditto. |
An ACT for Punishment of such as shall Counterfeit the Lord
Proprietary's Greater or Lesser Seal at Arms within
this Province.
Lib. LL. Nº 4. fol. 371.
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Counterfeiting
the Great
Seal, or his
Lordship's
Sign Manual
or Seal at
Arms, or any
Public Seals
of the Province,
or stealing away,
or affixing
the
true Seals
without lawful
Authority
to any Deed,
&c.
Penalty. |
Be it Enacted, by the Right
Honourable the Lord Proprietary, , by and with
the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's Governor, and the Upper and
Lower Houses of Assembly, and by the Authority of the same, That
from
and after the End of this present Session of Assembly, any Person or Persons
whatsoever, that shall presume to Counterfeit the Great Seal of this province,
for the Time being, or the Sign Manual or Seal at Arms of the lord Proprietary
of this Province, or any other the Public Seals of this Province, and
shall within this Province make Use of any such Counterfeit Seal or Sign
Manual of the said Lord Proprietary, his Heirs, or any other the Public
Seals of this Province, or shall steal away any of the said true Seals,
or without
lawful Warrant or Authority, shall falsely or corruptly, or with evil Intent
affix any of them to any Deed, Warrant or Writing, and shall afterwards
within this Province publish or make any Use of any such Deed, Warrant
or
Writing, as if such respective Seals had been affixed thereunto by any
such Lawful
Warrant and Authority as aforesaid, shall forfeit to the Right Honourable
the
Lord Proprietary and his Heirs, all his Goods and Chattels, Lands and Tenements
whereof such Offender shall be posses'd at the Time of committing
the same Offence; the one Half thereof to be applied towards the Support
of
a Public School within the County where the Offence shall be committed, |
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