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31 CHARLES Lord BALTIMORE.
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CHAP.
IX. |
of what Kind soever, either Wharfs, Houses, or other
Buildings, that have or shall
be made our of the water, or where it usually flows,
shall (as an Encouragement to such Improvers)
be for ever deemed the Right, Title and Inheritance of
such Improvers, their Heirs and
Assigns for ever. (11.) None shall keep or
raise any Swine, Geese, or Sheep, within the said
Town, unless they be well inclosed within same Lot or
Pen. (12.) All Takers-up of Lots,
and former and after Purchasers under this or the former
Laws, complying with the Requisites
therein directed, shall have a sure indefeasible Estate
of Inheritance, in Fee-simple, in the Lots
by them taken up; any Law, Custom, &c. notwithstanding. |
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CHAP. X.
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Passed 28th
Sept. 1745. |
An Act to enable the Commissary-General to enter and record, amongst
the Records
of his Office, the Last Will and Testament of
Henry Staples, deceased, for the
Purposes therein mentioned, Lib. B.L.C.
fol. 328. PR. |
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CHAP. XI.
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| Ditto. |
An Act for Settlement of Lands therein Mentioned, on Francis
Waring, and the
Hers of his Body lawfully begotten, Lib.
B.L.C.
fol. 328. PR. |
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CHAP. XII.
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| Ditto. |
An Act to direct and impower the Clerk of prince George's County,
to enter and
record, among the Records of the said County,
a Deed of Bargain and Sale,
from John Nevil, William Collier, and
Thomas Bond, to John Boyd, of a
Tract of Land therein mentioned. Lib. B.L.C.
fol. 329. PR. |
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CHAP. XIII.
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| Ditto. |
An Act for ascertaining the Allowance of Petit Jurors attending
the Provincial
Court, and to limit Costs with respect to Evidences.
Lib. B.L.C. fol. 330. EXP. |
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To continue in Force 3 Years, &c. A new
Law made 1749, ch, 2.
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CHAP. XIV.
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| Ditto. |
An Act for laying out One Acre of Land convenient to Rock-Creek
Landing,
on
Patowmack River, at the Land George Gordon
now
lives on, and for Building
a g Rolling-house
thereon. Lib. B.L.C. fol. 331. |
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g Made and Inspecting-house
by 1763, ch. 18, §. 36.
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CHAP. XV.
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| Ditto. |
An ACT for the Gauge of Barrels for Pork, Beef, Pitch, Tar,
Turpentine, and Tare of Barrels for Flour or Bread.
Lib.
B.L.C. fol. 332. |
Preamble.
Every such
Barrel for
Exportation,
shall Gauge at
least 31 Gallons
and an
half, Wine
Measure.
Pork and
Beef Barrels
to contain at
least 220 lb.
Tar and Turpentine
Barrels
to be filled,
&c. |
FOR Prevention of Frauds and Abuses frequently practiced by greedy
and
avaricious Traders in Pork, Beef, Tar, Turpentine, and Pitch, who,
for their own private Lucre and Gain, not only make and set up, or
cause to be made and set up, small Barrels, and badly made and hooped,
but
slightly pack, and deceitfully fill the same, to the great Prejudice
of the Trade
of this Province in the said Commodities and Merchandizes; For the
Prevention
of which ill Practices, it is humbly prayed that it may be Enacted;
II. 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 from
and after the
First Day of October, which shall be in the Year of our Lord
One Thousand
Seven Hundred and Forty-six., all and every Barrel or Barrels, which
shall be
set up to put Pork, Beef, Pitch, Tar or Turpentine, into; and also
every
Barrel or Barrels, wherein Pork or Beef shall be packed, or wherein
Pitch,
Tar, or Turpentine, shall be filled, either for Exportation out of,
or Sale
within this Province, shall be of Size and Gauge to contain at least
the Quantity
of Thirty-one and a half Gallons, Wine Measure; and that the Contents
of every Pork Barrel, at Exportation or Sale, shall be at the least
Two
Hundred and Twenty Pounds of good nett Pork; and of every Beef Barrel,
the like Quantity of good nett Beef, well salted and preserved; and
that every
Tar or Turpentine Barrel shall be filled with good clean merchantable
Tar or
Turpentine; and every Pitch-Barrel with good true-made merchantable
Pitch.
III. And
to the End, that all and every Barrel or Barrels to be hereafter
made use of for any of the Purposes aforesaid, may from Time to Time
be |
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