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33 and 34 CHARLES Lord BALTIMORE.
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At a Session of ASSEMBLY begun and held at the
City of Annapolis, the 10th Day of May,
in the
33d Year of the Dominion of the Right Honourable
CHARLES, absolute Lord and proprietary of the
Provinces of Maryland and Avalon, Lord
Baron of
Baltimore, &c. Annoq; Domini 1748,
and ended
the 11th Day of June following, in the 34th Year
of his Lordship's Dominion: The following Laws
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SAMUEL OGLE, Esq; Governor
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CHAP. I.
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Passed 11th
June 1748. |
An ACT to exempt Persons, appearing at Musters, from Arrests
in Civil Cases. Lib. B.L.C. fol.
434.
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Persons attending
Musters
exempted
from Civil
Arrests during
24
Hours.
Continuance. |
WHEREAS the Service of the Country, in this Time of War, may
require that People be frequently Trained in the Use of Arms; and
that in order thereto it will be requisite for them to meet at certain
Times and Places to Muster and Exercise: It is therefore humbly prayed
that it may be Enacted; 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
all Persons who shall attend at Places of Muster, in order to be Trained
and
Instructed in Military Discipline, shall be, and they are hereby declared
to be,
exempted and freed from all Arrests in Civil Cases, as well going to such
Place of Muster, as at, and coming from the same, for and during the Space
and Term of Twenty-four Hours every such Time of Muster; any Law,
Statute, Usage or Custom to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.
II. This Act to continue for and during the
Term of Three Years, and to
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.
18; 1754, ch. 16; 1757, ch. 27; and 1762, ch. 2.
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CHAP. II.
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Passed 11th
June 1748. |
An Act impowering the Justices of Kent County, to assess
and levy on the Taxable
Inhabitants of Shrewsbury Parish, in the
said County, a Sum not exceeding
Eight Thousand Pounds of Tobacco, for the a
Uses therein mentioned. Lib.
B.L.C. fol. 434.
a Viz. For
finishing a Chapel, for the Convenience of the Upper Inhabitants, the Shell
of
which had been built at their
private Expence, &c.
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CHAP. III.
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An Act to prohibit the raising of Swine in Leonard's-Town, in
St. Mary's
County. Lib. B.L.C. fol. 435.
N.B. By this Act, (1.)
No Inhabitants of the said Town shall keep or support any Swine
belonging to themselves or others, unless within their
own Inclosures. (2.) Persons convicted
before any Magistrate of transgressing this Act, shall pay Five Shillings
Current Money for each
Transgression, to be levied on the Body, Goods, &c. of the Offender,
by way of Execution as
in the case of small Debts; and applied to the Use of the County Free-School.
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CHAP. IV.
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An Act for ascertaining the Bounds of King and Queen Parish,
in St. Mary's
County; and for making the same, and All-Faith's,
compleat Parishes, on the
Death of the Reverend Mr. John Urquhart, present
Incumbent of All-Faith's
Parish, lying in St. Mary's and Charles
Counties. Lib. B.L.C. fol. 435.
N.B. Certain
Commissioners having been impowered by the Act of 1744, ch. 14,
to divide
St. Mary's County into Four several Parishes, which Power was through some
Accident neglected
to be executed, a Supplementary Act was made in 1745, ch. 4, appointing
Commissioners for the |
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