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2 FREDERICK Lord BALTIMORE.
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CHAP.
I.
An Attested
Copy to be
Evidence.
This Act to
be given in
Charge to the
Grand Jury,
every March
Court.
Duration. |
VI. And be it
likewise Enacted, That a Copy of such Record, duly attested
under the Seal of such Office, shall, at all Times hereafter, be deemed
to all Intents and Purposes, good Evidence to prove such Freedom.
VII. And to
the End that this Act may be duly observed, the justices of
every County Court within this Province respectively, shall, at their respective
County Courts to be held in March yearly, give in Charge to the
respective
Grand Juries of each respective County, to Enquire into any Breaches made
contrary to this Act,
VIII. This Act to continue for Three Years, and
into the End of the next
Session of Assembly which shall happen after the Expiration of the said
Three
Years.
Examined and Compared with the Original Act, REVERDY
GHISELIN,
THOMAS BACON. |
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Continued by 1755, ch. 5; and 1758, ch.
9, for 7 Years, &c.
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CHAP. II.
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Passed 23d
June 1752. |
An Act directing the Manner of Punishing Fornication and Adultery,
before a single
Justice of the Peace, out of Court. Lib. B.L.C.
fol. 557. EXP.
To continue for 3 Years from the 1st
October next, &c. It was farther continued for 3
Years, &c. by 1756, ch.
10; and expired in April 1760.
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CHAP. III.
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Ditto.
* 1715, ch. 39 |
An Additional and Supplementary ACT to the Act, entitled, * An
Act for the better Administration of Justice in Testamentary
Affairs, Granting Administrations, Recovery of Legacies,
Securing
Filial Portions, and Distribution of Intestates Estates.
Lib. B.L.C. fol. 559.
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Preamble.
Guardians
chosen by Orphans,
shall
give Security
according to
the Directions
of 1715,
ch. 39.
Whereupon
the County
Court shall
give Order
for delivering
the Estate into
their Hands. |
WHEREAS it hath been a Doubt, whether Persons chosen by Orphans
of the Age of Fourteen Years, or upwards, to be Guardians
to such Orphans, are by Law obliged by the said Act to give
Security, upon their Acceptance of the Guardianship, to pay and deliver
unto
such Orphans, their Estates, at their respective Ages, when by Law they
shall be entitled to receive the same: For Removal of which Doubt;
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
several and respective
County Courts within this Province, may and shall, and they are
hereby impowered and directed, upon the Choice of any Guardian or Guardians
by any Orphan or Orphans, who shall be of Age to choose their Guardians,
to cause such Guardian or Guardians, upon their Acceptance of the
Guardianship, to enter into Bond, with two sufficient Sureties, in the
Names
of the Orphans themselves, for the Securing and Delivering the Estates
of such
Orphans which shall come to their Hands and Possession, to the said Orphans,
their Executors or Administrators, when thereunto lawfully called, according
to the Rules and Directions of the said Act.
III. And be it
further Enacted, by the Authority, Advice and Consent aforesaid,
That upon such Security being given, the Court before whom the same
shall be given, shall make an Order for the Delivering and Paying the
Estate
of such Orphan unto the Hands of such Guardian; and that no Executor,
Administrator, or former Guardian, shall pay or deliver unto such Guardian
so chosen, the Estate of such Orphan in his, her, or their Hands being,
until
such Guardian so chosen, shall have entered into Bond, according to the
Directions of this Act, and shall have delivered unto such Executor, Administrator,
or former Guardian, a Copy of such Order, under the Hand of the
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