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1748.
33 and 34  CHARLES Lord BALTIMORE.
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
    were Enacted.
SAMUEL OGLE, Esq; Governor

 
CHAP. I.
Passed 11th
June 1748.
An ACT to exempt Persons, appearing at Musters, from Arrests
    in Civil Cases.  Lib. B.L.C.  fol. 434.
 




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.

 

CHAP. II.
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
Uses therein mentioned.  Lib.
    B.L.C.  fol. 434.
  Viz.  For finishing a Chapel, for the Convenience of the Upper Inhabitants, the Shell of
        which had been built at their private Expence, &c.

 
CHAP. III.
Ditto. 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.

 
CHAP. IV.
Ditto. 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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