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SAMUEL OGLE, Esq; Governor.
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1750. |
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CHAP. VII.
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An Act to enable the Justices of Baltimore County Court,
to assess and levy on the
Taxable Inhabitants of St. George's Parish
in that County, a f Sum on Money
for the Uses therein mentioned. Lib. B.L.C.
fol. 490.
f Viz.
1200 l. Current Money at four equal Assessments, to be paid
to the Order of the Rector,
Vestry and Church-wardens, and by them be applied towards
the purchase of Three Acres
of Land, and building a new Church thereon; and the like
Quantity of Land, and building a
Chapel of Ease thereon, &c. Supplementary Acts
are 1757, ch.
18; and 1758, ch. 2. |
Passed 2d
June 1750. |
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CHAP. VIII.
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An act impowering the Justices of Charles County Court, to
assess and levy a
g Quantity
of Tobacco; and fr other Purposes therein mentioned. Lib. B.L.C.
fol. 491.
g Viz.
27000 lb Tobacco by two equal Assessments, on the Taxables of William
and Mary
Parish, to be applied by the Rector, Vestry, &c.
towards enlarging and repairing their
Parish Church. This Act also impowered the said
Rector, &c. to sell all the Swine and Neat
Cattle belonging to the Glebe of the said Parish, and
to apply the Produce towards repairing the
Glebe, &c. |
Ditto. |
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CHAP. IX.
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An Act impowering the Justices of Prince-George's County,
to levy on the Taxable
Inhabitants of Queen-Anne Parish in the
said County, Fifty Pounds Current
Money, for the h Uses
therein mentioned. Lib. B.L.C. fol. 492.
h Viz.
For Paling in their Chapel Yard, and building a House with a Fire-Place
to accommodate
the Minister
and Parishioners in bad Weather. |
Ditto. |
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CHAP. X.
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An Act continuing an Act, entitled, i An
Act for the Gauge of Barrels for Pork,
Beef, Pitch, Tar, Turpentine, and Tare of Barrels
for Flour or Bread. Lib.
B.L.C. fol. 493. EXP. |
Ditto. |
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i 1745, ch. 15,
hereby continued 3 Years, &c.
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CHAP. XI.
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An Act for the further Enlargement of Baltimore-Town, in
Baltimore
County.
Lib. B.L.C. fol. 493.
N.B. This Act (pursuant
to the Petition of the Inhabitants of the said County) impowered
the Commissioners of Baltimore-Town, to cause
about 25 Acres of Land (on the North and East
Sides of that Part of Baltimore-Town, formerly
called Jones's-Town) to be surveyed and laid out
into Lots and Streets, in such Manner as to them shall
seem convenient; which being done,
the same is hereby declared to be Part of Baltimore-Town
aforesaid, to all Intents and Purposes,
as fully and amply as if included originally therein,
and have the same Immunities and Privileges
as the rest of the said Town, by any former Laws ought
to have. And Persons building or
improving on any of the said Lots, as by former Laws
relating to the said Town is directed,
and purchasing the same from the Proprietor (with who
they are left, by this Act, to agree,
otherwise to have no Title therein) shall have an absolute
Estate of Inheritance in any Lot or
Lots so purchased and built on. |
Ditto. |
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CHAP. XII.
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An Additional Supplementary ACT to the Act, entitled, * An
Act for laying out and Erecting a Town at a Place
called
Long-Point, on the West Side of North-East
River
in Cæcil
County. Lib. B.L.C. fol.
494. |
Ditto.
* 1742, ch. 23. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this General Assembly, by the Commissioners
for Charles-Town in said County, and by the humble Petition
of the Inhabitants thereof, that many Regulations are yet
wanted that would much conduce to the Convenience and Advantage of
the
Inhabitants, and further Settlement of said Town: It is therefore
humbly
prayed it may be Enacted;
II. 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 from
and after the End
of this Session of Assembly, it shall and may be lawful for the Commissioners
for said Town for the Time being, or the major Part of them, to appoint
yearly, one of the Inhabitants, to serve as an Overseer for said Town;
and
which Overseer, so appointed, shall be obliged to serve, on the Penalty
of
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Preamble.
An Overseer
for the Town
to be appointed. |
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