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SAMUEL OGLE, Esq; Governor.
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" of each other, contrary to, and after such Admonition given, shall
" be sufficient Evidence in any Court of this Province, to convict the
Persons
" so cohabiting or frequenting each others Company after Admonition given
" as aforesaid, of Fornication or Adultery, as the case shall happen,
and subject
" them to the Penalties aforementioned respectively." And
be it Enacted,
That if any Person or Persons do not appear, according to such Notice,
on Affidavit of such Notice being given, it shall be taken for Proof of
a Cohabitation
of the parties, to whom such Notice shall be given, of their Lewdness
or Incontinency, and a Confession of their Guilt; and shall be sufficient
Evidence in any Court in this Province, to convict the Person or Persons,
so
cohabiting or frequenting each others Company, in the same Manner, to all
Intents and Purposes, as if such Person or Persons did appear before
the Vestry
and Church-wardens as aforesaid, and were by them actually admonished.
VI. And be it
further Enacted, by the Authority, Advice and Consent aforesaid,
That so much of an Act of Assembly of this Province, made at a Session
of Assembly begun and held at the City of Annapolis, on the Twenty-sixth
Day of April in the Year Seventeen Hundred and Fifteen, entitled,
An
Act for punishing the Offences of Adultery and Fornication, as relates
to Corporal
Punishment for Fornication, be, and is hereby Repealed.
Examined and Compared with the Original Act, REVERDY
GHISELIN,
THOMAS BACON.
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CHAP.
XII.
Persons not
appearing on
such Notice,
to stand convict.
So much of
1715, ch. 27,
as relates to
Corporal Punishment,
Repealed. |
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CHAP. XIII.
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An Act for further altering and establishing certain Ware-houses;
and for other
Purposes therein mentioned, Lib. B.L.C.
fol. 479. EXP. |
Passed 24th
June 1749. |
To continue in Force during the Inspection Law of
1747, ch. 1
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CHAP. XIV.
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An Act for the cutting off the Entail of Part of a Tract of Land,
called Holland's
Choice, lying in Anne-Arundel County, to enable
Jacob Holland to
sell and convey the same in Fee-simple, and to entail
other Lands in lieu thereof.
Lib. B.L.C. fol. 482. PR.
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Ditto. |
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CHAP. XV.
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An Act impowering certain Persons to vend and dispose of Lands in
Somerset County,
whereof Woney McClemey died seized in Fee for
the Purposes therein
mentioned. Lib. B.L.C. fol. 484.
PR.
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Ditto. |
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CHAP. XVI.
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An Act to continue such Actions now depending in the Provincial
Court as by Law
ought to have been determined in May Provincial
Court, One Thousand Seven
Hundred and Forty-nine. Lib. B.L.C. fol.
485.
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Ditto. |
At a Session of ASSEMBLY, begun and held at the
City of Annapolis, the 8th Day of May,
in the
35th 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. and ended the 2d Day of June, in
the
36th Year of his Lordship's Dominion, Annoq; Domini
1750: The following Laws were Enacted. |
1750. |
SAMUEL OGLE, Esq; Governor.
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CHAP. I.
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An act to prevent the Exporting of Trash or bad Tobacco. Lib.
B.L.C. fol.
487. EXP. |
Passed 15th
May 1750. |
To be in Force till the 1st December 1753.
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