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SAMUEL OGLE, Esq; Governor
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presume to ride a Race on any Horse, Mare, or Gelding, belonging to
any
other Person, on the Days, and within the Distance form the said respective
Meeting-houses aforementioned, shall for every Offence, forfeit and pay
the
Sum of Five Pounds Current Money, to be recovered an applied as aforesaid.
II. And
be it further Enacted and Declared, That the Constables of
the several and respective Hundred of the said Counties of Anne-Arundel
and
Talbot, shall, upon their knowing, or being applied to, during the
Time of
holding the said yearly Meetings, by any other Person or Persons informing
them, that great Numbers or Crowds of Negroes or other Slaves have
met
in a tumultuous and disorderly Manner within the said Counties, immediately
to repair with such Assistance ads he or they shall think necessary, to
such
Place where such Negroes and other Slaves shall be assembled, and require
and command them immediately to disperse and retire tot heir several Dwellings;
which if they, or any of them, shall refuse or delay to do, or shall
behave impudently or turbulently, such Constable or Constables shall seize
and take such Negro or Negroes, or other Slave or Slaves, so refusing,
delaying,
or misbehaving, and give him, her, or them, a due Correction, by
Whipping on the bare Back with any Number of Stripes not exceeding
Thirty-nine.
§. IX,
being Repealed, (see the Note after §. I,) is omitted.
X. This Act to continue from and after the
End of this present Session of
Assembly, for and during the Space of Three Years, and unto the End of
the next Session of Assembly which shall happen after the Expiration of
the
said Three Years.
Examined and Compared with the Original Act, REVERDY GHISELIN,
THOMAS BACON.
Farther
continued by 1751, ch. 19; 1754, ch, 12; 1757, ch. 20;
and 1762, ch. 3.
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CHAP.
XVII.
Duty of Constables
with
regard to
Slaves tulmutuously
assembled
during such
Meetings.
Continuation. |
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CHAP. XVIII.
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An Act impowering certain Commissioners therein mentioned, to lay
out, and set a
Price, or cause a Price to be set on, Two Acres of Land
in St. Margaret's-Westminster
Parish, in Anne-Arundel County, whereon the
Chapel of Ease,
belonging to the said Parish, now stands. Lib.
B.L.C. fol. 415.
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Passed 11th
July 1747. |
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CHAP. XIX.
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An Act for raising Three-pence Sterling per Hogshead on all Tobacco
to be exported,
for purchasing Arms and Ammunition, and for an immediate
Supply of Arms
for the Defence of this Province. Lib. B.L.C.
fol. 416. EXP.
To remain in Force till 29th September
1748. Continued by 1748, ch. 11, till the 29th September
1749,
and then expired.
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Ditto. |
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CHAP. XX.
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An Act to enable Onorio Razolini to convey, in Right of Elizabeth
Calvert an
Infant, to George Plater, Esq; certain Lands
therein mentioned. Lib. B.L.C.
fol. 418. PR.
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Ditto. |
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CHAP. XXI.
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An ACT for the Enlargement of Baltimore Town, in Baltimore
County; and other Purposes therein mentioned.
Lib. B.L.C.
fol. 420.
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Ditto. |
WHEREAS the Inhabitants of Baltimore-Town, in Baltimore
County,
by their humble Petition to this General Assembly, have set forth,
That there is between what was formerly called Jones's-Town and
Baltimore-Town, a Parcel of Land, of about Eighteen Acres, which
is not
included in what was called Jones's-Town, nor in Baltimore-Town,
and which,
by being laid out into Lots, would, by means of a Bridge, which is already
Built, reduce the said Places into One; and that making such Addition,
would
be an Encouragement to People to build and improve; they therefore pray
that the said Eighteen Acres of Land, or thereabouts, may be laid our
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Preamble. |
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