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10 CHARLES Lord BALTIMORE.
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1724. |
At a Session of ASSEMBLY begun and held at the
City of Annapolis on Tuesday the 6th Day of October,
and ended the 4th Day of November, in the
10th Year of the Dominion of the Right Honourable
CHARLES, absolute Lord and Proprietary of
the Provinces of Maryland and Avalon, Lord Baron
of Baltimore, &c. Annoq; Domini 1724;
were Enacted
the following Laws, viz. |
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CHARLES CALVERT, Esq; Governor.
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CHAP. I
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An Act to prohibit the a Exportation
of Indian Corn for the Time therein limited,
and to suspend b the
Execution of an Act, entitled, An Act prohibiting the
Importation of Bread, Beer, Flour, Malt, Wheat, or other
Indian or English
Grain or Meal, Horses, Mares, Colts or Fillies, from
Pensylvania, and the
Territories thereunto belonging. Lib. L. Nº
5. fol. 1. EXP.
a 'Til
the last of October 1725.
b Viz.
of 1715, ch. 18, hereby suspended till the last of June
1725.
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Passed 29th
October 1724. |
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CHAP. II.
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An Act for the Relief of such Persons as have been convicted of
any Breach of the
Acts of Assembly for c Preventing
the making of trashy Tobacco, and for the
bettering the Staple of this Province, and the d
Explanatory Act thereof, unheard;
or have suffered by the Misconstruction of the said
laws. Lib. L. Nº 5. fol. 3.
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Passed 4th
Nov. 1724.
c 1721, ch. 8
d 1721, ch. 17.
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CHAP. III.
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An Act to cut off the Intail of a certain Tract of Land called
Billingsley's Point,
and to enable John Jordain to make Sale of the
same. Lib. LL. Nº 5. fol. 4.
PR.
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Ditto. |
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CHAP. IV.
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An Act investing an Estate of Inheritance, in Fee-simple, of a Tract
of Land
called Little Bohemia, or Bohemia Middle
Neck, in Ephraim Augustine
Herman, of Cæcil County, Gent.
and his Heirs for ever, and to cut off the
Intail thereof; and to make good and valid any Sale
thereof to be made by the
said Herman, or his Heirs aforesaid. Lib.
L. Nº 5. fol. 6. PR.
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Ditto. |
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CHAP. V.
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An Act declaring what Estate Gabriel Parker, and Anne
his Wife, John Abbington,
and Mary his Wife, William Hutcheson,
and William Pile, and
Elizabeth his Wife, have in the Lands severally
devised to them by William
Hutcheson, Gent. deceased. Lib. L. Nº
5. fol. 8. PR.
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Ditto. |
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CHAP. VI.
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A Supplementary ACT to the Act, entitled, * An Act for the
Relief of Debtors, and ascertaining the Manner of Tenders
in
Tobacco. Lib. L. Nº 5. fol. 10.
N.B. The
Use of this Act is, at present, suspended by the Inspection Law of 1763,
ch. 18.
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Ditto.
* 1713, ch. 3. |
FORASMUCH as the Time limited by the said Act for tendering Tobacco,
is so shone, that honest Debtors intended to be relieved thereby,
have not the Benefit that was intended them by the Assembly: And
for that many of the Inhabitants of this Province have complained that
several
Sheriffs have refused good merchantable Tobacco, for Public and other
Dues, and Officers Fees, with Intent to extort great Prices in Money from
the Debtors, or make some other unjust Profit to themselves; |
Preamble. |
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