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1 FREDERICK Lord BALTIMORE.
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1751. |
At a Session of ASSEMBLY, begun and held at the
City of Annapolis, the 7th Day of December,
In
the 1st Year of the Dominion of the Right Honourable
FREDERICK, absolute Lord and Proprietary
of the Provinces of Maryland and Avalon,
Lord
Baron of Baltimore, &c. and ended the 14th
Day
of the same Month, Anno Domini 1751: The
following Laws were Enacted. |
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SAMUEL OGLE, Esq; Governor.
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CHAP. XXVI.
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An Act for the dividing of certain Warehouses in Talbot County,
therein named.
Lib. B.L.C. fol. 551. EXP. |
Passed 14th
Dec. 1751. |
To continue in Force toll the 1st December
1753.
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CHAP. XXVII.
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An ACT for the Continuation of Actions, and Securing the
Peace and Good Government of this Province. Lib.
B.L.C.
fol. 552.
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Ditto. |
WHEREAS many Writs, Precepts, Process and Judicial Proceedings
have been issued, had and executed, and several Courts of of Judicature
have been held in the Province, in the Name and Stile of the
late Right Honourable Charles, Lord Proprietary, since his Death
or Demise;
and the several judges, Justices, Magistrates, and Ministers of Justice,
and
also the Officers and other persons within this Province, Commissionated
by the
said late Proprietary, or his Lieutenant-Governor, for the Time being,
not
knowing that the said late Proprietary had departed this Life, have, since
the
Death or Demise of the said late Proprietary, under and in virtue of their
said
respective Commissions, and the Authority of the same, done, acted, and
performed
such Duties and Services, and other Matters and Things, as appertain
and properly belong to their respective Functions, Offices and Stations:
And
for that it is the Intent of this General Assembly, that no Disappointment
or
Inconvenience whatsoever, should happen or arise to any Suitors by Discontinuance,
or other Error or Cause of Exception, by Means or Occasion of
the Death or Demise of the said late Lord Proprietary, or his Name and
Stile
being used, observed, and pursued in such Writs, Precepts, Process, and
Judicial
Proceedings, or any Censure, Damage, Loss, or Inconvenience whatsoever,
should happen or arise to the said Judges, Justices, Magistrates, and
Ministers of Justice, or other Officers or Persons Commissionated by the
said
late proprietary, or his said Lieutenant-Governor, for having exercised,
done,
put in practice, or performed, any Matter, Thing, Act, Service, or Duty
whatsoever, properly belonging or appertaining unto their respective
Functions,
Offices, and Stations, since the aforesaid Death or Demise of the said
late Proprietary. And whereas it is necessary to the Peace and Welfare
of
this Province, that upon any emergent Occasion, some Person or Persons
residing
within this Province, should be sufficiently authorized and impowered
to call and summon the General Assembly of this Province, for the Providing,
Establishing, and Enacting of good and salutary laws, which, by the
undoubted Constitution of this Province, cant' be Made, Ordained, Established,
or Enacted, but by and with the Consent of the Freemen of this Province,
by their several and respective Delegates and Representatives legally
called together and assembled by the Lord Proprietary, for the Time being,
or some other Person or Persons by him for that End and Purpose properly |
Preamble. |
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