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THOMAS BLADEN, Esq. Governor.
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N.B. By this Act,
(1.) The Justices of St. Mary's County, together with the
Sheriff and
Surveyor, are appointed Commissioners to execute the several matters, &c.
in this Act directed,
(2.) The said Commissioners to meet at the Court-house at Leonard-Town,
on or before 30th August
1744, in order to divide the County into Four distinct Parishes, first
giving Public Notice
Twenty Days before such Meeting; and then and there agree upon the Time,
Manner, &c. of
making the Division aforesaid. (3.) The Commissioners impowered
to appoint a suitable Clerk,
and to pay their Clerk, and other incident Charges, by a County Levy; and
also to adjourn as
to them shall seem needful. (4.) The Commissioners to lay out,
or cause to be laid out, divided,
and separated, the said County of St. Mary's, into Four different
and distinct Parishes, by suitable,
natural and artificial Lines, Buttments and Boundaries, with regard to
the Conveniency
of the People, and so as the Number of Taxables in the said COunty may
be as equally divided
into the said Four Parishes, as the Nature of the Thing will permit. (5.)
The Commissioners
to cause the Division of the County into Four Parishes by them made, to
be fairly and distinctly
entered in a Book, by natural and artificial Bounds and Courses as aforesaid,
in Four distinct
Certificates, and return the same to the COunty Clerk, by him to be entered
among the County
Records, there to remain as the true and indisputable Bounds of the said
Parishes respectively.
The Commissioners also to return Duplicates of the said Certificates, to
the Vestry of each Parish,
&c. to be entered in their respective Registers. And the Division
so made and recorded in
the County Court Office, and respective Registers of the said Four Parishes,
to be taken and
deemed the true Bounds and Limits of the sad Four Parishes in St. Mary's
County. (6.) The
Commissioners impowered either to alter or continue the Names of the present
Parishes, and to
give Name to what Parish they shall add; which Names shall be entered in
the said respective
Certificates, and by the same shall be called at all
Times hereafter. (7.) All that Part of All-Faith
and King and Queen Parishes, now being within Charles County,
shall hereafter be deemed
and remain a distinct and separate Parish, by the Name of Trinity Parish;
but so as not to affect
the 40 per Poll, until after the Decease or Removal of the present Incumbent
or Incumbents of
the same Parishes of All-Faith, and King and Queen, &c.
(8.) The Free-holders of the said Four
Parishes in St. Mary's County respectively, and of the said Trinity
Parish in Charles County, are
impowered to make Choice of Vestry-men, Church-wardens, &c. And
the said respective
Free-holders and Vestries, to have, hold and enjoy, all and singular the
Rights, Liberties, Privileges,
&c. which any other Parishes or Vestries within this Province have,
or hereafter may
have. (9.) Such Divisions or Alterations of the Parishes aforesaid,
or the erecting the aforesaid
Trinity Parish, in Charles County, not to take Place or Effect,
until the Death or Removal of
the present Incumbent respectively, so as to alter the
yearly Income of any of the said present
Incumbents in the Parishes they now enjoy.
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CHAP.
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CHAP. XV.
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An Act for Building a Prison in Worcester County. Lib.
B.L.C. fol. 295.
The Justices of Worcester impowered
to build a County Prison in Snow-Hill Town; and the
Commissioners of the Loan Office
to pay them 500 l. in Bills of Credit for that Purpose.
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Passed 4th
June 1744. |
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CHAP. XVI.
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An Act to enable Samuel Wilson, Executor of Margaret
Lindow, to convey certain
Lands to David Wilson. Lib. B.L.C.
fol. 295. PR.
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Ditto. |
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CHAP. XVII.
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An Act continuing an Act of Assembly of this Province, entitled,
g An Act for
the more effectual Punishment of certain Offenders;
and for taking from them
the Benefit of Clergy. Lib. B.L.C.
fol. 296. EXP. |
Ditto. |
g 1737, ch. 2,
hereby continued 3 Years, &c.
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CHAP. XVIII.
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An Act continuing an Act of Assembly of this Province, entitled,
h A Supplementary
Act to the Act, entitled, An Act for the more effectual
Punishment of Negroes
and other Slaves; and for taking away the Benefit of
Clergy from certain
Offenders; and to an Act, entitled, An Act to prevent
the tumultuous Meeting
and other Irregularities of Negroes and other Slaves;
and directing the Manner
of Trying Slaves. Lib. B.L.C. fol.
297. EXP. |
Ditto. |
h 1737, ch. 7,
hereby continued 3 Years, &c.
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CHAP. XIX.
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An Act reviving an Act of Assembly, entitled, i
An Act for the Benefit of the
Poor, and Encouragement of Industry. Lib. B.L.C.
fol. 297. EXP. |
Ditto. |
i 1740, ch. 11,
hereby continued 3 Years, &c.
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CHAP. XX.
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An ACT for Punishment of Horse-Stealers, and other Offenders.
Lib. B.L.C. fol. 298.
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Ditto. |
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 all and
every person and Persons, who shall hereafter feloniously Take or Steal
any
Horse or Horses, Mare or Mares, Gelding or Geldings, Colt or Colts, within
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