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29 and 30 CHARLES Lord BALTIMORE.
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At a Session of ASSEMBLY begun and held at the
City of Annapolis, the 1st Day of May,
in the
29th Year of the Dominion of the Right Honourable
CHARLES, absolute lord and Proprietary of the
Provinces of Maryland and Avalon, Lord
Baron
of Baltimore, &c. and ended the 4th Day of
June
following, in the 30th Year of his Lordship's Dominion,
Annoq; Domini 1744: The following Laws
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THOMAS BLADEN, Esq; Governor.
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CHAP. I.
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Passed 4th
June 1744. |
An ACT to encourage the destroying Bears in Worcester County.
Lib. B.L.C. fol. 283.
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100 lb Tobacco
to be
allowed for
the Head of
every Bear
killed in Worcester
County.
The Ears and
Tongue to be
cut before
granting Certificate.
Oath to be
made that the
Bear was killed
in the
County, &c. |
FORASMUCH as it is represented to his General Assembly, by the Inhabitants
of Worcester County, that the said COunty is much infested
with Bears; 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 every
Person who shall bring to any Justice of the Peace of Worcester
County, the
Head of a Bear that was Killed in the said County, shall be allowed in
the
Levy of the said County One Hundred Pounds of Tobacco; which said Sum
of One Hundred Pounds of Tobacco, for each Bear that shall be so Killed,
the Justices of the said County are hereby required and impowered to levy
upon the taxable Inhabitants of the said County, to be paid in the same
Manner
as the Public and County Levies now are. And to present a double
Allowance
for one Bear, the Justice before whom such Bear's Head shall be
brought, is hereby required to cause the Ears thereof to be cut off, and
it's
Tongue to be cut out, and to give a Certificate thereof to the Party producing
the said Head.
II. Provided
always,
That it shall not be lawful for any of the Justices of
the County aforesaid, to give any Certificate for any Bear's Head (other
than
what shall be Killed by an Indian) before the Party producing the
same shall
make Oath (or Affirmation, if a Quaker) That the Bear, for which the Certificate
is desired, was Killed in the County aforesaid, after the making this
Act: Nor to give a Certificate for the Head of any Bear Killed by
an Indian,
unless the said Head be brought to him whole and entire, and that it
appear
to be green and fresh Killed; any Thing herein contained to the contrary
notwithstanding.
Examined and Compared with the Original Act, REVERDY
GHISELIN,
THOMAS BACON.
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CHAP. II.
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Passed 4th
June 1744. |
An Act for making a Chapel already erected in Prince George's
Parish, in Prince
George's County, a Chapel of Ease. Lib.
B.L.C. fol. 283.
N.B. By
this Act the said Chapel is constituted, &c. a Chapel of Ease to the
said Parish, and
all Tobacco or Money hereafter to be levied, on Application of the Vestry
to the County
Court, &c. shall be as well, for the Repairing of the said Chapel,
as the Parish Church, &c.
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CHAP. III.
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An act for dividing St. Stephen's, alias North-Sassafras
Parish, in Cæcil
County. Lib. B.L.C. fol. 284.
By this Act, (1.) From
the End of this Session, all that Part of St. Stephen's, alias
North-Sassafras
Parish, in Cæcil County, lying within the following Bounds,
viz. Beginning at a certain
Place called Town-Point, situated between Elk and Bohemia
Rivers, and from thence to run
up Bohemia River to Middle-Neck Point; from thence up Augustine-Creek,
alias Little Bohemia, to
Campbell's Branch, including all Middle-Neck, and the Plantation
of Charles Scott, and to the
Cross Paths; and from the Cross Paths by a Line drawn East to the exterior
Bounds of the old |
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