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CHARLES CALVERT, Esq; Governor.
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1724. |
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CHAP. XXIII.
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An Act for the Payment and Assessment of the Public Charge of this
Province for
this present Year One Thousand Seven Hundred and Twenty-four.
Lib. L.
Nº 5. fol. 40.
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Passed 4th
Nov. 1724. |
At a Session of ASSEMBLY begun and held at the
City of Annapolis, in the County of Ann-Arundel,
for the Province of Maryland, on Tuesday
the 5th
Day of October, and ended Saturday the 6th Day
of November, in the 11th 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 1725, were Enacted the following Laws. |
1725. |
CHARLES CALVERT, Esq; Governor.
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CHAP. I.
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An Act for ascertaining the Form of the oath of Judge or Justice.
Lib. L.
Nº 5. fol. 41. DISSENT.
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Passed 6th
Nov. 1725. |
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CHAP. II.
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| An Act for destroying Squirrels and Crows.. Lib. L. Nº
5. fol. 42. EXP. |
Ditto. |
To be in Force 3 years, &c. A new Law made
1728, ch. 7.
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CHAP. III.
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An Act for relieving the Inhabitants of this Province from sundry
Aggrievances
they lie under, occasioned by the Scarcity of Tobacco
within this Province in the
Year One Thousand Seven Hundred and Twenty-four.
Lib. L. Nº 5. fol; 44.
OBS.
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Ditto. |
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CHAP. IV.
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An ACT declaring Female Mulattoes born of White Women, and
Free Negro Women, to be Taxables. Lib.
L. Nº 5. fol. 45.
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Ditto. |
FORASMUCH as Female Mulattoes born of White Women, and Free
Negro Women are not mentioned in the Act ascertaining what Persons
are Taxables within this Province,
II. BE it Enacted,
by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary, 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 all
Female Mulattoes born of White Women, and Free Negro Women, of the
Age of Sixteen Years, shall hereafter be accounted Taxable Persons, and
shall
be subject and liable to all the Forfeitures and Penalties other Taxables
are subjected
to by the laws heretofore made concerning them; any Law, Statute,
Usage or Custom to the contrary notwithstanding.
Examined and Compared with the Original Act, REVERDY GHISELIN,
THOMAS BACON.
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Preamble.
Female Mulattoes
born
of White
Women, and
Free Negro
Women, of
the Age of
16, are Taxables. |
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CHAP. V.
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An Act reviving and continuing an Act of Assembly of this Province,
entitled,
a An Act for the better
Relied of poor Debtors. Lib. L. Nº 5. fol. 46.
EXP. |
Passed 6th
Nov. 1725. |
a 1722, ch. 13,
hereby continued 3 Years, &c.
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