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JOHN HART, Esq; Governor.
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1719. |
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CHAP. VI.
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An Act to confirm a Tract of Land therein mentioned, to the Rector
or Minister
of St. John's Parish in Baltimore County,
and his Successors for ever.
Lib. LL. Nº 4. fol. 428.
* Viz.
A Tract of Land called Stoakly Manor, alias Stoak Flemmon, containing
550 Acres, more
or less; devised by the Last Will and Testament of Jeremiah Eaton, late
of Baltimore County,
deceased, dated the 10th January 1675, to the first Protestant Minister
that should reside in Baltimore
County, and his Successors for ever.
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Passed 6th
June 1719. |
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CHAP. VII.
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An Act impowering a Committee to lay, asess and apportion the Public
Levy, for
this present Year One Thousand Seven Hundred and Nineteen.
Lib. LL. Nº 4.
fol. 429.
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Ditto. |
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CHAP. VIII.
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An Act to supply certain Defects in the conveying of Lands from
Henry Roberts
to John Ford. Lib. LL. Nº 4.
fol. 430. PR.
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Ditto. |
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CHAP. IX.
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An Act to confirm William Gray of Calvert County,
a small Parcel of Land,
lying in the said County, sold by Robert Brooke
to the said Gray, now in the
Possession of the said Gray. Lib. LL.
Nº 4. fol. 431. PR.
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Ditto. |
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CHAP. X.
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An Act for the Relief of Samuel Little of Calvert County,
of Christopher Bateman,
Robert Gray and John Budd of Kent County,
languishing Prisoners.
Lib. LL. Nº 4. fol. 432.
PR.
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Ditto. |
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CHAP. XI.
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An Act reviving an Act of Assembly of this Province, entitled, d
An Act for
Encouragement of Tillage, and Relief of poor Debtors;
and for supplying some
Defects therein. Lib. LL. Nº 4. fol.
437. EXP.
d 1715,
ch. 17, hereby continued 3 Years; which, together with this Act,
expired in 1722,
when a new Law, ch. 13,
was made.
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Ditto. |
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CHAP. XII.
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A Supplementary ACT to the * Act for Appointment of Constables,
and what relates to their Office, and ascertaining what
Persons are Taxables. Lib. LL. Nº
4. fol. 438.
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Ditto.
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BE it Enacted, by the Right
Honourable the Lord Proprietor, by and with
the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's Governor, and the Upper and
Lower Houses of Assembly, and the Authority of the same, That in case
any Constable shall not pursue the Directions of the Act of Assembly (now
in Force) relating to his Office, and of this Act, in the taking an returning
of Taxables, such Constable shall be fined to the Right Honourable the
Lord
Proprietor, in the Sum of Five Thousand Pounds of Tobacco for each Offence,
one Half thereof to the Informer, or him or them that shall sue for
the same, and the other Half thereof for the Use of Free-Schools in
such
County where the Forfeiture shall happen; to be recovered in such County
Court, by action of Debt, Bill, Plaint or Information, wherein no Essoin,
Protection or Wager of Law to be allowed.
II. And be it
further Enacted, That in case any Master, Mistress, Dame,
or other chief Person of the Family, shall conceal any taxable, or not
give
a true Account thereof to such Constable, pursuant to the Directions of
the
Act aforesaid, that then such person shall for every Taxable so concealed,
or
not given in as aforesaid, forfeit the Sum of Five Hundred Pounds of Tobacco
in Manner aforesaid, to the Uses aforesaid; to be recovered as aforesaid.
III. And it is
hereby Declared, That no Person shall be taken as a Taxable
that shall not be imported into this Province on or before the First Day
of June for that Year.
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Penalty on
Constables
not pursuing
this and the
Original Act,
in the taking
and returning
of Taxables.
Penalty on
Masters, &c.
not giving
true Account
of their Taxables.
Unless imported
by the
1st of June. |
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