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21 CHARLES Lord BALTIMORE.
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CHAP. XVII.
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Passed 6th
May 1736.
* 1732, ch. 17. |
An Explanatory ACT of the Act, entitled, * An Act to encourage
Adventurers in Iron-Works. Lib. B.L.C. fol.
156. |
Preamble.
Abuses committed
under
colour of
1732, ch. 17,
§. 2.
None but
such as are
constantly
employed in
Iron-Works,
shall be exempt
from
clearing
Roads, &c. |
WHEREAS by the said Act it is Enacted, That no White Man or
Slave, who should be employed in any manner about Iron-Works,
or in providing any Materials of any Nature or Kind soever, for
the Furtherance and Carrying on any Iron-Work, or Making of Iron, should
be obliged to clear, or assist in clearing, any Highways or Roads,
or in building
of any Bridge or Bridges; with Proviso, that no White Man or Slave,
who should be employed in making Tobacco, should have any Exemption,
II. And whereas
it
is represented to this General ASsembly, That some
Iron-Works are seated on Main Roads, and that several of the Inhabitants
of
this Province, living contiguous to such Works and Roads by them used,
are
not Makers of Tobacco, and yet occupy and tens Plantations, and that
to
screen themselves from clearing or repairing the Roads contiguous to
Iron-Works,
enter into the Service of the Undertakers of such Iron-Works, for
some short Space of Time, whereby there are not a sufficient Number
of Inhabitants
left to clear the said Roads: For Remedy whereof for the future
it is prayed it be Enacted;
III. And 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
none of the
Inhabitants of this Province, their Servants or Slaves, who are not
in actual
Service, or shall not be g constantly Employed
in carrying on Iron-Works,
shall be exempt from clearing and repairing the said Roads.
Examined and Compared with the Original Act, REVERDY GHISELIN,
THOMAS BACON.
g But by
1750, ch. 14, the Owners, &c. of Iron-Works are obliged to send
One, out of every
Ten labouring
Persons employed in such Works, to assist upon Highways.
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CHAP. XVIII.
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Passed 6th
May 1736. |
An Act for the Relief of Isaac Tunney, a languishing Prisoner
in Talbot County
Goal; William Pratt, in the same Goal;
Richard
Standforth, in Charles
County Goal; and Samuel Steel in Queen-Anne's
County
Goal. Lib. B.L.C.
fol. 157. PR. |
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CHAP. XIX.
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| Ditto. |
An Act for erecting a Town in Cæcil County, on the
North Side of Sassafras
River, at a Place known by the Name of Pennington's
Point, on the Tracts
of Land called Buntington, and Happy
Harbour. Lib. B.L.C. fol. 160.
N.B. By this Act,
(1.) Certain Commissioners are appointed and impowered to purchase,
(by
Agreement with the Owner, or Valuation of a Jury) Thirty
Acres of Land, out of the Tracts
aforesaid, and the same to lay out into 60 equal Lots,
to be erected into a Town. (2.) The Owners
of the Land to have the first Choice, the remaining Lots
to be taken up by others. (3.) No
Person to take up more than one Lot during the first
Four Months, nor any other than Inhabitants
of the County within Six Months after laying out, and
then any others may take up Lots,
paying the Owners of the Land proportionably for the
same, which shall give such Purchasers,
their Heirs, &c. an absolute Estate in Fee-simple
in such Lots, they complying with the Requisites
of this Act. (4.) The Surveyor to return
a Plat of the Town to the County Clerk to
be kept by him among the County Records. (5.)
In case any Takers-up do not build upon such
Lots, within Two Years, a House to cover Four Hundred
square Feet, with a Brick Chimney,
then any other person may enter upon such Lot, so not
built upon, paying such Sum to the
Commissioners, &c. as was first set thereon, for
the Public Use of this Town: And such second
Taker-up, building and finishing within Three Years such
House as is by this Act limited and
appointed, shall thereby acquire as good an Estate to
him and his Heirs, as is by this Act before
settled upon the first Taker-up and Builder. (6.)
In case any Lots remain not taken up within
10 Years from the Publication of this Act, then shall
the Owner of the Land be possessed and
interested in such Lots as in his first and former Estate.
(7.) The Town to be called Frederick-Town.
(8.) The Commissioners to employ a Clerk, who shall
make true Entries of their Proceedings,
on Oath, which Entries to be made up in a bound Book,
and lodged with the Clerk
of Cæcil County Court, for the inspection
of any Person. (9.) A Saving of his Majesty's,
the Proprietary's &c. Rights. (10.) Possessors
of Lots to pay One Penny Sterling per Annum to his
Lordship for ever for each Lot. (11.) The
Land to be laid out with as little Detriment as possible
to such Persons as had already purchases Lots in the
said Land, which former Purchasers to have
as good Title to their several Lots as any After-Purchasers,
by virtue of this Act, may have. |
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