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THOMAS BLADEN, Esq; Governor.
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up, &c. to the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietor
and his heirs for ever. (10.) A saving
to the Crown, the Lord Proprietor, all Bodies Politic and Corporate, and
all others not mentioned
in this Act, their several Rights, &c.
See the Act to aid the Titles of Purchasers of Lots
in this Town, (which appeared to be an
Escheat to the Lord Proprietor) 1751, ch. 16, and its Supplementary
Act of 1753, ch. 33.
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CHAP.
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CHAP. VI.
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An ACt to prohibit raising Swine and Geese, in the Town of Cambridge,
in
Dorchester County. Lib. B.L.C.
fol. 322.
N.B. By
this Act, (1.) No Inhabitant of the Town; shall, on any Pretence
whatsoever,
keep. or support within the same Town, any Swine or Geese, belonging to
themselves, or any
others, unless such Swine or Geese be kept within such Person's own Inclosures.
(2.) Persons
convicted before any Magistrate (on Confession or Proof) of transgressing
this Act, shall pay
Five Shillings Current Money for each transgression; to be levied on the
Offender's Body,
Goods, &c. by Execution, as in case of small Debts; and to be applied
to the Use of the County
Free-School.
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Passed 28th
Sept. 1745. |
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CHAP. VII.
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An Act to impower and direct the Clerk of Ann-Arundel County
Court, to enter
and record, among the sid County Records, a Deed of
Bargain and Sale from
William Mitchel, Edward Mitchel and Grace
his Wife, to Mordecai Moore,
deceased. Lib. B.L.C. fol. 323.
PR.
The Requisites
of this Act not being performed, another was passed to the same Purpose,
1748,
ch. 8.
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CHAP. VIII.
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An ACt to impower and direct the Clerk of Charles County,
to enter and record,
among the said County Records, a Deed of Bargain and
Sale from James Connel
and Anne his Wife, to John Dunbar,
of a Parcel of Land therein mentioned.
Lib. B.L.C. fol. 324. PR.
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CHAP. IX.
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A Supplementary and Additional Act to the Act, entitled, e
An Act for erecting
a Town on the North Side of Patapsco, in Baltimore
County, and for laying
out in Lots Sixty Acres of Land in and about the Place
where John Flemming
now lives; and to an Act, entitled, f
An Act for erecting a Town on a Creek
divided on the East from the Town lately laid
out in Baltimore County, called
Baltimore-Town, on the Land whereon Edward
Fell keeps Store. Lib.
B.L.C. fol. 325.
N.B. On
the joint Petition of the Inhabitants of Baltimore and Jones's
Towns, in the County
of baltimore, it is herein enacted, (1.) That the same
Towns, now called Baltimore and Jones's
Town, be incorporated into one entire Town, and for the future called
and known by the
Name of Baltimore-Town, and by no other Name. (2.) The
Bridge built by the Inhabitants on
the Branch that divided the said Towns, shall for the future be deemed
a Public Bridge, and repaired
and kept, &c. at the Charge of Baltimore County. (3.)
Certain Commissioners (Seven
in Number) appointed to see the present and former Acts, relating to the
Towns before mentioned,
put in Execution, and cause them to be carefully Surveyed by their Out
Lines, therein including
the Branch over which the Bridge is built; and shall, from Time to Time,
(for preventing
Disputes) cause all the Lots taken up and improved, or
that shall hereafter by taken
up, &c. to be regularly surveyed, substantially and
fairly bounded, and numbered. (4.) On the
Death, Removal, or Declining to act of any Commissioners, the major Part
of the remaining
Commissioners shall appoint another to serve in the Stead of such Commissioner
dying, &c.
(5.) Disputes about the Bounds of Lots shall be fully determined
by a Majority of the said Commissioners:
And to prevent Partiality herein, the Commissioners, or major Part, shall
meet at least
once a Year, and see that a Boundary to each Lot be kept up and preserved,
in Manner before
prescribed: And cause other sufficient Boundaries to be fixed in
the Room of any missing or decayed.
(6.) The Commissioners have Power to employ a Clerk, who shall be
under Oath fairly
and honestly to enter in a Book, to be kept for that Purpose, all the Proceedings
of the said
Commissioners relating to the Town: In which Book, among other Things,
shall be kept a fair
Plat of the said Town, describing every Lot by its right Number, and who
the Taker-up was,
or shall be: And to prevent Corruption, all or any of the said Commissioners,
and their Successors,
shall have recourse to the Clerk's Books, as frequently as they please,
without Fee or Reward.
(7.) The Commissioners are impowered to levy, assess, and take by
way of Distress, if
needful, from the Inhabitants of the Town, by even and equal Proportion,
the Sum of 3 l.
yearly, to be paid to their Clerk; and also have Power to place and
displace their Clerk as often
as they shall think fit. (8.) The Commissioners, for the Time
being, may, by due Course of
Law, or any other legal Manner, in the Name of the said Commissioners,
or the major Part of
them, take, demand and recover, any Money which shall be found due to the
first Commissioners
nominated for the said Towns, from any Takers-up of Lots, by virtue of
the Original
Laws for laying out the same; which Money they shall apply to the Uses
intended by the said
Original Acts, and in no other Manner. (9.)
All After-Purchasers of Lots, whether before or
after the making of this ACt, shall be deemed to be within the said Town;
provided their Lots
shall be within the Out Lines thereof: And shall have as good Estate
in their Lots, as if taken
up, improved and paid for under the Original Laws erecting the said Towns.
(10.) All Improvements, |
Ditto.
e 1729, ch. 12.
f 1732, ch. 14. |
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