Commissioners
impowered
to build
a Public Goal
at Annapolis,
to remain in
Custody of
the Sheriff of
Ann-Arundel
County.
Power of the
Provincial
Court to commit
Persons to
the Custody of
the said Sheriff.
But not contrary
to 1715,
ch. 28.
Money to be
paid by the
Commissioners
of the
Loan Office
for Building
the Goal. |
WHEREAS it is necessary to build a Public Goal in the City of Annapolis,
with such Conveniencies as may render Confinement less
grievous, as well as secure Prisoners: Be
it therefore 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 the Honourable Col. Charles
Hammond, of the
Upper House. Mr. Philip Hammond, Mr. Vachel Denton, Daniel
Dulany,
Esq;
and Mr. Richard Warfield, or the Major Part of them, shall be
Commissioners,
and are authorized and impowered by virtue of this Act, to purchase,
for the Use of the Public, a convenient Piece of Ground within the
City of
Annapolis, whereon to build a Public Goal; and to agree for
Materials, and
with Workmen to completed an finish the said Prison; which Prison,
when
so built and finished, shall be the said Commissioners, be put into
the Possession
and Custody of the Sheriff of Ann-Arundel County, for the Time
being;
and so shall remain and continue in he Custody and Possession of such
Sheriff, and his Successors.
II. Provided
always, That it shall and may be lawful for the Provincial
Court, to commit any Prisoners for Debt, or any other Cause whatsoever,
to the Custody of the said Sheriff of Ann-Arundel County, to
be by him in
the said Prison detained, according to such Commitment; or to be remanded
to any other Prison, as the Law or Nature of the case may require.
III. Provided
always, That this Act, or any Thing herein contained,
shall not be construed to give the said Provincial Court any Power
or Jurisdiction,
contrary to the true Intent and Meaning of an Act, entitled, An
Act
for taking Special Bail in the several Counties of this Province,
upon Actions or
Suits depending in this Majesty's Provincial Court, and in the several
County Courts
of this Province; against which Sheriff or Sheriffs, Actions
or Prosecutions
for the Escape of such Prisoners, may be brought or commenced, as in
any other
Case of commitment and Escape, according to Law.
IV. And be it
further Enacted, That besides the Sum of Five Hundred
Pounds Current Money, already appointed to be expended for Building
a
Prison, for Ann-Arundel County, in and by the Act entitled,
An Act for emitting
and making current Ninety Thousand Pounds Current Money of Maryland,
in Bills of Credit, a further Sum not exceeding One Thousand
Pounds Current
Money, shall be laid out to purchase convenient Ground as aforesaid,
and to build a Goal thereon; which Sum of One Thousand Pounds, or so |
