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SAMUEL OGLE, Esq; Governor.
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1732. |
County Courts, and the mayor, Recorder and Aldermen of the City of
Annapolis, for the Time being, as their proper Oath of Office
to be administered,
as hath been heretofore used; and that the same be administered to
the members of the Court of Appeals, as Judges to correct Errors in
Judgments
and other Proceedings at Common Law, the Justices of the Provincial
and County Courts, and the Mayor, Recorder, and Aldermen of the City
of Annapolis, now in being, by Virtue of, and according to the
Directions of
the several Commissions, Writs of Dedimus Potestatem, or the
other Authorities,
that the late Form of their Oath of Office was administered by:
And
that after the last Day of November next, none of the Members
of the Court
of Appeals, as Judges to correct Errors in Judgments and other Proceedings
at Common Law, nor the Justices of the Provincial or County Courts,
no
the Mayor, Recorder, and Aldermen of the City of Annapolis, be
capable of
Acting in their respective Stations, without having first taken the
said Oath,
as their proper Oath of Office, in Manner aforesaid.
IV. Provided,
That
if the Judges in the High Court of Appeals, Provincial
Courts, and Courts of Assize, County Courts, and Mayors Court of
Annapolis, take the said Oath, at any Time before they proceed
to the Judicial
Determination of any Matters of Law, in their respective Courts, the
same shall be taken as a full Compliance with the Directions of this
Act;
any Thing herein before contained to the contrary notwithstanding.
Examined and Compared with the Original Act, REVERDY GHISELIN,
THOMAS BACON.
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CHAP.
V.
To be administered
as
hath been
heretofore
used;
and taken,
before they
shall be capable
of acting
in their respective
Offices.
Proviso. |
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CHAP. VI.
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An Act for erecting a Town on the South Side of Chester River
in Queen-Anne's
County, for laying in Lots Sixty Acres of Land
at the Mouth of the
South-East Branch, in the South Side thereof, on a Point
of Land known by
the Name of Hawkins's Prize-House Point.
Lib. B.L.C. fol. 42.
N.B. By this Act, (1.)
Commissioners were impowered to purchase (by Agreement of Valuation
of a Jury) 60 Acres of Land in the Tract aforesaid, lying most convenient
to the Water,
and to cause the same to be Surveyed and Laid out into 60 Lots, allowing
convenient Space for
Streets, Lanes, &c. to be laid out into a Town. (2.) The
Owner of the Land to have the
first Choice for one Lot, and afterwards the remaining Lots to be taken
up by others, None
to purchase more than one Lot during four Months after laying out, and
the Lots to be purchased
by Inhabitants of the County. But if all the Lots be not taken up
by such Inhabitants
in Six Months, then such Lots may be taken up by any others, paying the
Owners of the Land
proportionably for the same: And in case of Valuation
of the Land by a Jury, the Sum by
such Jury adjudged to be paid the Owners of the land, being paid by Persons
taking up Lots,
proportionably to their Lots, shall give such Purchasers, their Heirs and
Assigns, an absolute
Estate in Fee-simple to such Lots, they complying with the Requisites in
this Act mentioned.
(3.) The Takers up of any Lots refusing or neglecting to build thereon,
within 18 Months,
an House to cover 400 square Feet; any other Person whatsoever may enter
upon such Lot, so
as aforesaid not built on, paying to the Commissioners, or Person by them
appointed to receive
the same, the Sum first set upon such Lots, for the Public Use and Benefit
of the Town; Provided
such second Taker-up build and finish within 18 Months
after such his Entry made, such
House as by this Act is before limited: Which House, so built, shall
give and settle as good an
Estate to such second Taker-up, his Heirs and Assigns, as is by this Act
before settled on the
first Taker-up and Builder. (4.) Lots not taken up in 7 Years
from the publication of this
Act, shall be vested in the first Owner, as in his first and former Estate.
(5.) The Town to
be called Ogle-Town upon Chester. (6.)
The Commissioners to appoint a sufficient Clerk, who
upon Oath shall make true and impartial Entries of their Proceedings, which
Entries, made up
in a well bound Book, they shall cause to be lodged with the Clerk of Queen-Anne's
County
Court, for the Inspection of any PErson requiring it: And the Surveyor
to return a Plat of the
Town, to the County Clerk, to be kept by him among the County Records.
(7.) A saving of
Rights to the Crown, the Lord Proprietor, &c. (8.) Possessors
of Lots to pay to his Lordship,
Yearly, One Penny Current Money of Maryland for each Lot.
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Passed 8th
August 1732. |
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CHAP. VII.
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An Act for the Naturalization of Onorio Rozilini of Annapolis.
Lib. B.L.C.
fol. 44. PR.
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Ditto. |
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CHAP. VIII.
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An Act to prevent cutting up Tobacco Plants, destroying of Tobacco
and Tobacco
Houses, and for ascertaining the Punishment of Criminals
Guilty of the said
Offences. Lib. B.L.C. fol. 44. EXP.
To be in Force for 3 Years,
&c. continued 1736, ch. 5; and 1740, ch. 5; expired in
1744,
when a new Act was made, ch.
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Ditto. |
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