CHAP.
XVII.
But determined
by a single
Magistrate,
who shall return
a List
thereof to every
November
Court.
to be levied
on Execution
by the Sheriff. |
III. But in
all such Cases, any one Justice of the County Courts, to whom
Complaint shall be made, are hereby fully authorized and impowered,
upon
Complaint made to him against any person for not appearing, or Owners
of
Servants, for not sending their Servants on the Highways, when duly
warned,
to issue his Warrant to the Constable to bring such persons, or Owners
of
Servants, before him, and to summons Witnesses, as Need shall require,
and
upon Appearance before him, fully to hear and determine all such Cases,
and
as he shall see just and reasonable Cause, either to acquit and discharge
such
Persons, or fine them according to the Direction of the aforementioned
Act
of Assembly, to the uses therein mentioned; and to be levied in Manner
as thereby is directed. And every Justice of the Peace, awarding
such Fines
against any Person as aforesaid, are hereby required to keep a fair
Account of
all such Fines, and to return a true List thereof to the Justices of
the County
Courts yearly, at the Time of laying the County Levies, of which Account
the said County Courts shall cause their Clerks to give a fair Copy
to the Sheriff
of the County, in order to collect such Fines and Forfeitures; and
on
Refusal of Payment thereof, the Sheriff is hereby impowered to levy
the
same by way of Execution, in the same Manner as the Public and County
Levies of this province have usually been levied and collected, ad
render
an Account thereof to the Justices of the respective County Courts,
to be applied
to the Uses aforesaid.
Examined and Compared with the Original Act, REVERDY GHISELIN,
THOMAS BACON. |
Preamble.
The Nanticoke
Indians confirmed
in their
possession of
the Tract
bounded by
the Act of
1698, ch. 15,
so long as
they shall not
totally desert
the same:
But shall not
sell or lease
any Part
thereof.
the like Possession
confirmed
to the
Choptank Indians,
of the
tract surveyed,
&c. pursuant
to the
Acts of 1669,
ch. 1; and
1721, ch. 12. |
WHEREAS the Indians inhabiting on Nanticoke and Choptank
Rivers,
have complained to this General Assembly, of several Incroachments
made into the ancient Bounds and Limits of their Lands
heretofore granted them by the Lord Proprietor, and confirmed y several
acts of Assembly of this Province: For Remedy whereof, and to
prevent
Complaints of like Nature for the future,
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
Nanticoke Indians,
and their Descendants, shall have, hold, occupy, possess, and enjoy
a free,
peaceable and uninterrupted Possession, of all that Tract or Parcel
of Land, lying
between the North-west Fork of Nanticoke River and Chicucone
Creek.
for and during such Space of Time as they, or any of them, shall think
fit to
use, and shall not wholly and totally desert and quit Claim to the
same,
according as the same is Butted and Bounded by an Act of ASsembly of
this province, made in the year of our Lord Sixteen Hundred Ninety-eight,
entitled, An Act for ascertaining the Bounds of a certain Tract
of Land,
to the Use of the Nanticoke Indians, so long as they shall
occupy and live upon the
same. And that the said Indians shall not at any
Time hereafter, sell, dispose
of, or lease for Term of Years, any part or Parcel of the aforesaid
Land, to any
person or Persons whatsoever. And that the Choptank Indians,
and their Descendants,
so long as they shall occupy or claim, and shall not totally desert
the
same, shall hold and possess, quietly and peaceably, all that tract
of Land
lying in Dorchester County, on Choptank River, according
to the Metes and
Bounds thereof, surveyed and returned by the Honourable Philemon
Lloyd,
Esq; Colonel Richard Tilghman, and Colonel Matthew Tilghman
Ward, Commissioners
appointed by his Honour the Governor to ascertain and lay out
the same, pursuant to an Act of Assembly of this Province, made in
the Year
of our Lord Seventeen Hundred and Twenty-one, that Survey being found
pursuant and agreeable to the Intent and design of one Act of Assembly, |
