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14 CHARLES Lord BALTIMORE.
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CHAP. IV.
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Passed 19th
October 1728.
* 1715, ch. 44. |
A Supplementary ACT tot he Act, entitled, * An Act relating
to Servants and Slaves. Lib. L. Nº 5. fol.
203.
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Preamble.
Free Mulatto
Women,
are subject to
the same Penalties
with
White Women
and their
Issue for having
Mulatto
Bastards, by
1715, ch. 44.
§. 26, &c.
Free Negro
Women having
Bastards
by White
men, and
their Issue,
are subject to
the same.
Proceedings
hereon, to be
the same as
prescribed in
that Act. |
WHEREAS by the Act of Assembly relating to Servants and Slaves,
there is no Provision made for the Punishment of Free Mulatto
Women, having Bastard Children by Negroes and other Slaves;
nor is there any Provision made in the said Act, for the Punishment of
Free
Negro Women, having Bastard Children by White men: And forasmuch
as
such Copulations are as unnatural and inordinate as between White Women
and Negro Men, or other Slaves;
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 from
and after the End
of this present Session of Assembly, that all such Free Mulatto Women,
having Bastard Children, either within, or after the Time of their Service,
and their Issue, shall be subject to the same Penalties that White Women
and
their Issue are, for having Mulatto Bastards, by the Act entitled, An
Act relating
to Servants and Slaves.
III. BE
And be it further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid,
by and with the
Advice and Consent aforesaid, That from and after the End of this present
Session of Assembly, that all Free Negro Women, having Bastard Children
by White Men, and their Issue, shall be subject to the same Penalties that
White Women are, by the Act aforesaid, for having Bastards by Negro Men.
IV. And be it
further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, by and with
the
Advice and Consent aforesaid, That the same Method of Proceeding to
Judgment,
upon any matter within this Act, be the same as is prescribed by the
Act entitled, An Act relating to Servants and Slaves.
Examined and Compared with the Original Act, REVERDY
GHISELIN,
THOMAS BACON.
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CHAP. V.
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Passed 30th
October 1728. |
A Supplementary Act to the Act, entitled, b
An Act for the Establishment of Religious
Worship in this Province, according to the Church of
England; and for
the Maintainance of Ministers. Lib. L. Nº
5. fol. 205. c DISSENT.
b 1702, ch.
1.
c Proclamation issued for
Publication of the Dissent to this Act the 7th May
1730: Recorded Lib.
P.L. Nº 6. fol. 381.
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CHAP. VI.
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| Ditto. |
An Act reviving and continuing an Act of Assembly of this Province,
entitled,
d An Act for the better
Relief of poor Debtors. Lib. L. Nº 5. fol. 208.
EXP. |
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d 1722, ch. 13,
hereby continued 3 Years, &c.
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CHAP. VII.
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Passed 24th
October 1728. |
An ACT to encourage the Destroying of Wolves, Crows, and
Squirrels. Lib. L. Nº 5. fol.
209.
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Three Squirrels
Scalps,
or Crows
Heads, for
each Taxable,
shall be
produced
yearly, before
laying
the Levies, to
some County
Magistrate,
who shall destroy
the same
and give Certificate. |
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 from
and
after the commencement of this Act, every Master, Mistress, Owner of a
Family, or single Taxable, in the several and respective Counties within
this
Province, shall be, and are by this Act obliged, yearly, (at some Time
before
the laying their County Levies,) to produce to some one of the Justices
of their County, Three Squirrel Scalps, or Crows Heads, for every Taxable
Person they shall pay Levy for that Year; and the Justices of the Peace,
before
whom such Squirrels Scalps, or Crows Heads, shall be brought, shall be,
and is hereby obliged to destroy such Squirrels Scalps, and Crows Heads
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