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33 and 34 CHARLES Lord BALTIMORE.
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CHAP.
XVI. |
was built on a Tract of Land called Egerton's Manor,
near Piscattaway: And Doubts having
arisen relating to the Title of the Land, &c. the present Act
(1.) Impowers the Justices of
Prince-George's County, to cause the said Three Acres to be laid
out by the County Surveyor,
so as the said Chapel may stand in the Center thereof, and to be securely
Butted and Bounded;
and to cause the same Land to be valued by a Jury according to its Worth,
before Building the
Chapel aforesaid, &c. The Return of the Jury under their Hands
and Seal, and the Hand and
Seal of the Sheriff, together with the Surveyor's Certificate of Survey,
to be entered among the
County Records. (2.) The Vestry to pay the Surveyor, Sheriff,
Jury, &c. and also to pay
the Owner of the Land the Value set thereon by the Jury. (3.)
The said Survey, Valuation,
and Recording, and Payment for the Land as aforesaid, shall vest an absolute
Estate therein,
for the Use of the Parish, in the Vestry, &c. and their Successors
for ever. (4.) The Surveyor's
Certificate to be entered in the Parish Register Book, and in case of Fire;
or Accident
to the County Records, a Copy of the Courses of the said Three Acres from
the said Register
Book shall be deemed the Courses of the said Land.
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CHAP. XVII.
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Passed 11th
June 1748. |
An Act continuing an Act, entitled, d An
Act for raising a Duty of Three Half
Pence Sterling per Hogshead, on all Tobacco exported
out of this Province, for
the Use of the Governor. Lib. B.L.C.
fol. 451. EXP. |
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d 1747, ch. 25;
hereby continued to the 29th September 1749.
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CHAP. XVIII.
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An Act impowering the Justices of Calvert County Court, to
assess and levy on
the Taxable Inhabitants of the said County, a Sum not
exceeding One THousand
Pounds Current Money; and to impower certain Commissioners
therein named,
to appropriate the same towards Building, Finishing
and Compleating a new
County Court House, for the said County. Lib.
B.L.C. fol. 451.
N.B. By
this Act the Commissioners therein appointed, were impowered to receive
the Sum
if 500 l. from the Trustees of the Loan Office, appropriated by
the Paper Money Act of 1733,
ch. 6, for building a convenient Goal in each
County.
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CHAP. XIX
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Ditto.
* 1715, ch. 24. |
An Additional Supplementary ACT to the Act, entitled, * An
Act relating to Servants and Slaves. Lib. B.L.C.
fol. 453.
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Preamble.
Persons harbouring
Slaves or Servants,
to forfeit 100 lb
Tobacco per
Hour. |
WHEREAS by an Act of Assembly of this Province, made at a Session
of Assembly begun and held at the City of Annapolis, the
Twenty-sixth Day of April, Anno Domini, One Thousand Seven
Hundred and Fifteen, entitled, An Act relating to Servants and Slaves,
it is
Enacted, That " any Person or Persons whatsoever, that shall, after the
" Publication of the said Act, wittingly or willingly entertain any Servant
" or Slave unlawfully absenting him, her, or themselves, from their Master,
" Mistress, Dame, or Overseer, shall be fined Five Hundred Pounds of Tobacco,
" for every Night, or Twenty-four Hours, that such Person or persons
" shall give such Entertainment." And whereas it is represented to
this General
Assembly, that many crafty and ill-disposed Persons, knowing that
they are not liable to the payment of the said Fine, unless they entertain
such
Servant or Slave one whole Night, or Twenty-four Hours without Intermission,
do, by frequently entertaining the Servants and Slaves of the good
People of this Province at dead Times of Night, for several hours together,
entice them secretly to make away with, and embezzle, the Goods of their
Masters or Owners, by carrying them to such Entertainments, and to commit
many grievous Disorders and Irregularities against the Peace of his Lordship,
and his good Rule and Government, and to the great Damage and Disquiet
of many of his Majesty's liege Subjects within this Province: For
preventing which Evils for the future;
II. 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 if any
Person or Persons,
after the End of this Session of ASsembly, shall wittingly or willingly
entertain
any Servant or Servants, Slave or Slaves, unlawfully absenting him, her,
or
themselves, from his, her, or their Master, Owner or Overseer, or permit
or
suffer them to be about their Houses or Plantations, during the Space of
one
Hour, or longer, such Person or Persons so entertaining such Servant or
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