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CHARLES CALVERT, Esq; Governor.
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III.
And be it further Enacted, by
the Authority, Advice and Consent aforesaid,
That no Pork, Pitch or Tar, upon
which the Duties aforesaid are assess,
shall be Landed or put on Shore
out of any Vessel which shall import the
same, or any other, without due
Entry of the same with the Officer thereby
appointed (upon Oath or Test of
the said Person or Persons importing of any
of the aforesaid Commodities) for
collecting the same, in the Port or Place
where such Commodity shall happen
to be imported as aforesaid, or before
the Duty due and payable for the
same be satisfied, or secured to be satisfied,
and a Warrant for the landing or
vending thereof be signed by the Officer for
that Purpose appointed; upon Pain
and Peril that all such Commodities landed,
vended, or put on Shore, contrary
to the true Intent and Meaning of
this Act, shall be forfeited and
lost, or the full Value thereof, the one Half
to be appropriated towards the Use
of Public Schools in the several Counties,
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
shall be allowed.
Examined and Compared with the Original Act, REVERDY GHISELIN,
THOMAS BACON. |
CHAP.
XI.
Such Pork,
&c. landed
without Entry,
&c. to
be forfeited,
or the value. |
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CHAP. XII.
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An Act for the Advancement of Justice. Lib. LL. Nº
4. fol. 592. EXP.
To be in Force 3 Years. Continued
1727, ch. 5; 1731, ch. 1; and 1735, ch. 18; and with
its Supplementary
Act of 1730,
ch. 10; and Explanatory Act 1732, ch. 6, expired
in 1740. |
Passed 26th
October 1723. |
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CHAP. XIII.
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An Act for the Relief of Elizabeth Major of Prince-George's
County,
by impowering
her, notwithstanding her Coverture, to lease
for her Life the Lands
therein mentioned. Lib. LL. Nº
4. fol. 595. PR. |
Ditto. |
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CHAP. XIV.
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A Supplementary Act to an Act, entitled, cAn
Act declaring the Rights of Three
Lots originally laid out in Annapolis,
for the Uses therein mentioned. Lib. LL.
Nº 4. fol. 596. |
Ditto.
c 1718, ch. 8. |
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CHAP. XV.
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An ACT to prevent the tumultuous Meetings, and other Irregularities
of Negroes and other Slaves. Lib. LL.
Nº 4. fol. 596. |
Passed 26th
October 1723. |
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Supplementary, &c. Acts, are 1751, ch. 14;
and 1753, ch. 26.
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WHEREAS this present Session of Assembly have had under their Consideration,
the evil Consequences that do and may attend the suffering
of Negro and other Slaves, to meet in great Numbers on Sabbath
and other Holy-Days, and keeping of Horses, Cattle or Hogs of their
own.
II.
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
the Justices of the several
and respective County Courts within this Province, be, and they are hereby
impowered and required, immediately after the Publication of this Act,
and
so yearly in November Court, to appoint the Constable of every Hundred,
where the said Justices, at their Discretion, shall think proper and expedient,
to suppress the Assembling and tumultuous Meeting of Negroes and other
Slaves; and that every Constable so to be appointed, shall be obliged to
repair
once a Month, to all suspected Places within his Hundred; and if at any
such Place he shall find any Negroes or other Slaves, besides the Negroes
or
other Slaves, belonging to the Owner of such Place, not having a Licence
under their Owner or Overseer's Hand, that it shall and may be lawful for
the Constable, and he by this ACt required, to whip every such Negro on
the bare Back, at his Discretion, not exceeding Thirty-nine Stripes.
III.
And to
the End that every Constable may be enabled to put this Act
in due Execution; Be it Enacted,
That it may be lawful for the
Constable
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Preamble.
County
Courts may
appoint Constables
to suppress
the tumultuous
Meetings of
Slaves.
The Duty
and Power of
Constables, so
appointed,
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