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29 and 30 CHARLES Lord BALTIMORE.
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CHAP.
XX.
Punishment
of Horse-Stealers,
their
Aiders, Abettors,
and Accessaries,
&c.
Death.
Punishment
of wilful
Burners of
Ships, Boats,
&c.
Death.
Continuance. |
this Province, and all Aiders, Abettors, and Accessaries, either before
or
after the Fact, of any such Takers or Stealers, and all and every Person
and
Persons who hall buy, take, or receive any Stolen Horse, Mare, Gelding,
or
Colt, knowing the same to be feloniously Taken or Stolen, and shall
be thereof
convicted, by Confession or Verdict, or be Out-lawed, or will not upon
Arraignment answer directly according to law, or shall wilfully and
of Malice
stand Mute, or shall peremptorily Challenge above Twenty, shall for
every such Offence or Offences as aforesaid, suffer Death as a Felon,
without
Benefit of Clergy.
II. And be it
further Enacted,
That any Person or Persons who shall, after
the Publication of this Act, maliciously, wilfully, and designedly,
Burn
any Ship, or other Vessel, Sloop, Shallop, or Boat, of Seventeen Feet
Keel,
or upwards, whether laden or empty, and the Aiders or Abettors of such
Offender
or Offenders, being thereof convicted or attained by due Course of
Law, shall suffer Death as a Felon or Felons, without Benefit of Clergy.
III. This Act to continue for Three Years next
ensuing, and to the End of
the next Session of Assembly that shall happen after the said Three
Years.
Examined and Compared with the Original Act, REVERDY GHISELIN,
THOMAS BACON.
Farther continued by 1747, ch.
12;
1751, ch. 4; 1754, ch. 2; 1757, ch. 26, and 1762,
ch.
4.
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CHAP. XXI.
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Passed 4th
June 1744. |
An Act to enable the Rector, Vestry-men and Church-wardens
of St. James's Parish,
in Anne-Arundel County, to Lease Lands
belonging to St. James's Church,
in Manner and to the Uses therein mentioned.
Lib.
B.L.C. fol. 298.
N.B. By
this Act, (1.) The Rector, Vestry-men and Church-wardens of
the said Parish, for
the Time being, are impowered to grant, lease, demise,
and to farm let, a Parcel of Land, Part
of a Tract called Wrighton,on the East Side of
Patuxent River, in the said County, hitherto unimproved,
to any person or Persons willing and capable to take
the same, or any Part of it, on
such Conditions, Covenants, Provisoes, and yearly Rents,
as to the said Rector, Vestry-men, &c.
or the major Part of them shall agree upon, and for any
Term not exceeding Twenty-one
Years, in any one Demise. (2.) The yearly
Rents, &c. of the premises to belong to the Incumbent
of the said Parish for the Time being, for his sole and
separate Use and Benefits, and
to no other Uses, &c. whatsoever. (3.)
During a Vacancy, the Vestry-men and Church-wardens
are impowered to be applied on the like Occasion by 1715,
ch. 24. (4.) The Leases so made,
shall, at the Request of the Lessee, be entered within
Three Months from the Date thereof,
verbatim, by the Clerk or Register of the Parish,
on the Register Book of the said Parish; there
to be viewed and perused by any person desiring the same;
and who shall, on paying a reasonable
Fee, have a Copy thereof, or of such Part as such Person
shall think proper: And for
the Entry thereof in the Register Book, the Clerk to
receive Five Shillings Current Money.
(5.) Such Entry, when made, shall be deemed, &.
as good and effectual, &c. as if the same
had been acknowledged, and entered among the County Records. |
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CHAP. XXII.
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A Supplementary ACT to the Act, entitled, * An Act for Laying
out and Erecting a Town, at a place called long
Point,
on
the West side of North-East River, in Cæcil
County.
Lib.
B.L.C. fol. 299. |
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* 1742, ch. 23. See a farther
Supplementary Act 1750, ch. 12.
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Preamble setting?
forth a
voluntary
Contribution
of the Proprietors
of Lots,
at 20 s. per
Lot. |
WHEREAS, the Inhabitants or Takers-up of the Lots in Charles-Town,
in Cæcil County, have, by their Petition to this General
Assembly represented, That they have voluntarily advanced, and
paid into the Hands of the Commissioners appointed for laying out the said
Town, the Sum of Twenty Shillings upon every and respective Lot by them
taken-up, over and above the Price and Purchase thereof, whereby there
is
paid into the Hands of the said Commissioners the Sum of Two Hundred
Pounds Current Money, to be applied towards building a Public Wharf and
Stone-house in the said Town, for the Advancement of the Trade thereof;
and therefore Pray that a Law may pass, for laying out the said Money towards
Building a Public Wharf and Store-house, on the Public Ground laid |
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