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SAMUEL OGLE, Esq; Governor.
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1748. |
same Purpose; and for erecting that part of All-Faith
and King and Queen Parish, lying in Charles
County, into a distinct Parish; which last Commissioners proceed to
perform the Duty in the
last recited Act enjoined, and returned a fair Account of their Proceedings,
which were entered
among the Records of the County Court. But the Vestry-men, &c.
of King and Queen Parish,
having made appear to this General Assembly, that the Line which by the
said Proceedings of
the Commissioners was directed to run from Major Barnes's Mill,
as the dividing Line between
the said King and Queen and All-Faith's Parish, and appears
to be North Forty-two Degrees and
an Half West, to the Extremity of the County, does not leave to the said
King and Queen Parish
a proportionable Number of taxable Inhabitants of the said County, as directed
bu the first Act;
the present Act declares, that from the Death, &c. of the Reverend
Mr. Urquhart, the said Parishes
of King and Queen and All-Faith, shall be divided by a Line
to run from Major Barnes's
Mill, North Thirty-six Degrees West to the Extremity of the said County,
and not by the
Lines mentioned in the Proceedings of the said Commissioners, &c.
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CHAP.
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CHAP. V.
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An Act to impower and direct the Clerk of Anne-Arundel County
Court, to enter
and record among the said 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. 436.
PR.
N.B. An
Act for the same Purpose passed 1745, ch. 7; but they omitted Recording
the Deed
according to that Act, which
made the present Act necessary.
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Passed 11th
June 1748. |
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CHAP. VI.
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An Act impowering the Justices of Worcester County, to levy
on the Taxable Inhabitants
of All-Hallows Parish, in the said County, a
Sum not exceeding Eighty
Thousand Pounds of Tobacco, for the b
Uses therein mentioned. Lib. B.L.C.
fol. 437.
b Viz.
To build a Parish Church of Brick, for All-Hallows Parish, on
Part of the Ground laid
out for Public Use in Snow-Hill
Town. A Supplementary Act 1756, ch. 7.
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Ditto. |
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CHAP. VII.
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An ACT to enable the several and respective County Clerks, within
this Province, to remove some of the County Records
and
Papers from the Public Offices. Lib. B.L.C.
fol. 439.
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Ditto. |
WHEREAS at a Session of Assembly begun and held at the City of
Annapolis, the Sixteenth Day of May, Anno Domini, Seventeen
Hundred Forty and Seven, and Act was made, entitled, An Act
to remedy some Proceedings in the Court of Charles County, and to
prevent the
Removal of the Records form the Public Offices; wherein among other
Things,
It is Enacted, " That for the future no Clerk or Register within this Province,
" (except Parish Registers) shall at any Time hereafter, take, remove,
" or carry out of their respective Public Offices, or cause or suffer any
Person
" or Persons to take, remove, or carry out of their respective Public Offices,
" any Books, Papers, or other Records, to their own Houses, or to any other
" Place, upon any Pretence whatsoever, and the same so keep, or cause or
" suffer to be kept out of their respective Public Offices, at any Time
between
" the Hours of Eleven at Night, and Six in the Morning, under Penalty
" of Ten Pounds Current Money for every Offence; one Moiety thereof
" to the Informer, or to him or her that shall sue for the same, the other
" Moiety to be applied to the Use of the School of the County wherein the
" Offence shall be committed; to be recovered in any Court of Record in
" this Province, by Action of Debt, Bill of Indictment, Plaint or Information
" wherein no Essoin, Protection, or Wager of Law, or more than one
" Imparlance, shall be allowed." And whereas several of the County
Clerks
within this Province, in behalf of themselves and others of the said County
Clerks, have humbly represented to this present General Assembly, that
by
the above recited Act, they and all other the County Clerks aforesaid,
are
laid under such Hardships that it is not practicable for them to execute
that
Duty, inasmuch as a great part of their Business must of necessity
be done in
the Winter Season, and that their Dwellings are at some distance from their
several and respective Court-Houses; this present General Assembly having
taken the said Representation into Consideration, and being well satisfied
of
the Truth of the Facts mentioned therein, are willing and desirous to remove/
the Hardships complained of: |
Preamble.
Recital of the
Act of 1747,
ch. 3, § 10. |
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