Passed 16th
Sept. 1731. |
An Act for Relief of Richard Smith, William Nimmo, George Clagget,
William
Burston, James Mason, John Brooke, and Benjamin
Hilliard,
languishing
Prisoners in Prince George's County Goal;
William Robertson, Richard
Roper, John Norwood, and Richard Simpson,
languishing Prisoners in Ann-Arundel
County Goal; Thomas Taylor, a languishing
Prisoner in Baltimore
County Goal; Edward Hyatt, and Robert
Lynch,
languishing Prisoners in
Kent County Goal; Richard Barrow,
Thomas Brown, John Clarke, William
Austin, and Robert Cardiff, languishing
Prisoners in St. Mary's County Goal;
and Daniel Hall, a languishing Prisoner
in Cæcil County Goal. Lib. B.L.C.
fol. 10. PR.
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Preamble.
An Oath before
a County
Magistrate
where the
Owners reside,
agreeable
to 1720,
ch. 26, §. 2,
and a Certificate
thereof,
to be as effectual
as if
made before
the Naval
Officer.
Provided the
Certificate be
delivered before
Clearance.
Such Owners
residing in
different
Counties may
make separate
Oaths.
The Form. |
FORASMUCH as it appears to this General Assembly, That the Owner
or Owners of any Vessel belonging to this Province, may, by the Act
of ASsembly aforesaid, be put to very great Inconveniencies, where
they live remote from any Naval Officer, or have Occasion to make Entry
of
such Vessel in any other Port of this Province, than where such Owner or
Owners reside, by their being obliged to go to the naval Officer of the
port
where such Entry is made, to prove their Property in said Vessel:
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 and
Oath made by the
Owner or Owners of any Vessel, before a magistrate, in any County where
any such Owner or Owners shall reside, agreeable to the Form of the Oath
prescribed by the before mentioned Act, and a Certificate thereof,
under the
hand and Seal of the Magistrate who shall administer the same, shall
be taken
and allowed to be as good and effectual, to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever,
and shall entitle the Owner or Owners of such Vessel, and all others
concerned, tot he same Privileges and Allowances, as if the said Oath had
been taken before the Naval Officer of the Port where such Vessel hath
or
shall be Entered.
III. Provided
always,
That a Certificate of the taking such Oath, under
the Hand and Seal of the magistrate who shall take the same, shall be delivered
to the Naval Officer where any Entry is or shall be made, some Time
before the Clearing such Vessel.
IV. And whereas
it may happen, that the Owners of a Vessel may reside
in different Counties in this province, so that they cannot conveniently
meet
together, to make Oath to their Property, before one magistrate; Be
it Enacted,
by the Authority, Advice and Consent aforesaid, That
where any person,
who, by the Register of any Vessel, appears to be Part Owner of her, shall,
before some Magistrate, make Oath, " That he or she is Part Owner of
the
" said Vessel; and that the Persons who appear by the Register of the said
Vessel to
" be Owners of her, are to the best of his or her Knowledge, sole Owners
of such
" Vessel; and that he or she verily believes, that no Person whatsoever,
that is not
" an actual Resident within this Province, both any Share or Part of the
said Vessel;" |
