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37 CHARLES Lord BALTIMORE.
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CHAP.
VII.
The said Act
hereby made
Perpetual. |
An Act to prevent cutting up Tobacco Plants, destroying of Tobacco
and Tobacco
Houses, and for ascertaining the Punishment of Criminals guilty of the
said Offences,
by Experience has been found useful and beneficial, is near Expiring:
Therefore for continuing the same;
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 the
said recited Act,
and every Article, Clause and Thing therein contained, shall be in full
Force,
and is hereby made Perpetual.
Examined and Compared with the Original Act, REVERDY GHISELIN,
THOMAS BACON.
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CHAP. VIII.
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Passed 8th
June 1751. |
An Act continuing an Act, entitled, d 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. 531. EXP. |
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d 1748, ch. 7,
hereby continued 3 Years, &c.
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CHAP. IX.
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| Ditto. |
An Act to enable the Justices of Charles County to assess
and levy on the Taxable
Inhabitants of that Part of the late Reverend Mr. Donaldson's
Parish, which
lies in the said County, e Fifty-five
Thousand Pounds of Tobacco; and for other
Purposes therein mentioned. Lib. B.L.C.
fol. 531.
e For Building
a Parish Church and Chapel of Ease for Trinity Parish. A Supplementary
Act
1752, ch. 6.
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CHAP. X.
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| Ditto. |
An Act continuing an Act, entitled, f A
Supplementary Act to an Act, entitled,
An Act laying an Imposition on Negroes, and several
Sorts of Liquors imported;
and also on Irish Servants, to prevent the Importing
too great a Number of Irish
Papists into this Province. Lib. B.L.C.
fol. 533. EXP. |
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f 1735, ch. 6,
hereby continued 3 Years, &c.
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CHAP. XI.
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| Ditto. |
An ACT to make the Testimony of Convicted Persons, Legal
against Convicted Persons. Lib. B.L.C.
fol. 534.
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Preamble.
The Testimony
of imported
Convicts
shall be allowed
against
other such
Convicts in
Criminal Prosecutions.
False Swearing
punishable
as Perjury. |
WHEREAS, Murders, Burglaries, and other Felonies and Offences,
have been so frequent of late, that the lives and Properties of
his Majesty's Subjects within this Province, are become precarious;
which Offences have been generally committed by the Convicts imported
into this Province, and such as they Seduce to join with them in their
wicked Practices; and which Crimes the said Convicts are encouraged to
perpetrate, because they know that they are disabled from being Witnesses
against each other, as the Law now stands: For Remedy whereof;
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 in all
Criminal Prosecutions
which shall happen, or be, after the End of this present Session, against
any Convict or Convicts imported into this Province as such, or their Confederates
or Accomplices being such Convicts imported, the Testimony or
Evidence, upon Oath, of any other Convict or Convicts imported as such,
or
of any of the Confederates or Accomplices, being Convicts, in the same
Crime,
committed within this Province, shall be received and allowed as if he,
she,
or they was, or were not under any Conviction or Disability; such Conviction
or Disability notwithstanding.
III. Provided
always, That any Convict imported as such, who shall be
Sworn as a Witness in any such Case, and who shall Swear falsely, and shall
be thereof convicted by due Course of Law, shall suffer as a person convict
of wilful and corrupt Perjury. |
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