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10 CHARLES Lord BALTIMORE.
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CHAP. XV.
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Passed 4th
Nov. 1724. |
An Act for the Relief of James Philips, the Elder, and Anthony
Philips, late of Baltimore County, deceased.
Lib. L. Nº 5. fol. 23. PR.
REP. 1732, ch. 16.
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CHAP. XVI.
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An Act for erecting a Town at Joppa, in Baltimore County,
and for securing
the Land whereon the Court-house and Prisons are built,
to the Use of the said
County. Lib. L. Nº 5. fol. 24.
N. B. A
Public Court-house and Prison having been erected at Joppa, at the
County Expence,
and the Right of the Land being in a Minor, who could not Convey, although
his Father, Col.,
James Maxwell had received full Satisfaction for the same; it is
therefore Enacted, (1.) That the
Land already allotted for the Court-house and Prisons,
(not less than Two acres) and whereon
they are built, shall be to the Use of the County for ever. (2.)
Certain Commissioners impowered
to purchase by Agreement or Valuation of a Jury, 20 Acres of Land at Joppa,
and cause
the same t be surveyed and laid out onto 40 Lots, to be erected into a
Town, so as the Public
Buildings may be included therein, and the Lots so laid out as not to affect
the Improvements of
Colonel James Maxwell and his Son, already made
there, with convenient Streets, &c. and the
Lots to be Numbered from One to Forty. (3.) The Owner of the
Land to have his first
Choice of Two Lots, and then the remaining Lots to be taken up by others,
so that no Person
take up more than one Lot during the first Four months; but if not taken
up all by Inhabitants
of the County within that Time, then any other Persons to have Liberty
of taking
up the same, paying the Owner proportionably. (4.) Takers-up
of Lots not Building
therein within Twelve Months a House to cover 400 square Feet, and no House
to have
any Chimney unless of Brick or Stone, it shall then be lawful for any other
Person to enter
upon the Lot so not built upon, paying the Sum first set thereon to the
Commissioners, or Persons
by them appointed to receive the same, to the Benefit of the Town, to be
called Joppa: And
such second Taker-up building and finishing (within One Year after such
his Entry) such House
as before limited and appointed, shall have as good Estate therein as the
first Taker-up, &c.
(5.) Lots not taken up during Seven Years after Publication of this
Act, shall revert to the Owner
of the Land. (6.) Debtors bringing their Tobaccoes to
the said Town, and paying the
same to their Creditors, or their Receivers, shall be allowed thereout
10 per Cent, to be deducted
out of the Debt, or allowed of in Bar or Discount, of any Action to be
brought against
such Debtors by any Creditors, in any Court within this Province.
See a Supplementary Act, 1737, ch. 11.
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CHAP. XVII.
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A Supplementary Act to the Act, entitled, f
An Act for the Trial of all Facts in
the Counties where they have arisen and shall arise;
the Continuance of Causes
in the Provincial Court, and Adjournment of that Court.
Lib. L. Nº 5. fol.
26. EXP.
f 1723,
ch. 3, which, together with this Act, was farther continued by 1727,
ch. 6. And both
expired in 1731.
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CHAP. XVIII.
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Ditto.
* 1718, ch. 1 |
An ACT for explaining a Paragraph of the * Supplementary Act
to the Act, entitled, An Act directing the Manner of
Electing
and Summoning Delegates. Lib. L. Nº
5. fol. 28.
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Preamble.
Recital of the
Act of 1718,
ch. 1.
Doubts arisen
thereon.
Quakers to
take Affirmation
instead of
the Oaths to
the Government. |
WHEREAS in the Supplementary Act to the Act directing the
Manner of Electing and Summoning Delegates and Representatives
to serve in succeeding Assemblies, it is Provided, That nothing
in that Act should be construed to debar or hinder any of the People
called, and generally reputed, Quakers, from their Votes in Election, they
being otherwise duly qualified, some Questions have arose thereon, Whether
Quakers are intended to be otherwise exempt thereby from all Questions
concerning
their Fidelity to the Government, than by allowing them the Liberty
of taking their Affirmation to his Majesty's Government prescribed
by Law,
instead of the Oaths, as is now used in England: For declaring
thereof,
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 in all Cases
where any
the good People of this Province are obliged or required to take the oaths
to
his majesty's Government, the Quakers be likewise obliged to take their
Affirmation
in the like Cases as allowed and prescribed by Law, instead of such |
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