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2 FREDERICK Lord BALTIMORE.
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CHAP.
VII.
Penalty on
Constables
neglecting to
qualify.
On Death,
&c. of any
Constable,
any two next
County Justices
may appoint
another;
who shall
qualify, &c. |
as aforesaid, or leave the same at his usual Place of abode, under
the Penalty
of Twenty Shillings Current Money, to be recovered in Manner aforesaid,
to the Use aforesaid: And every person so appointed as aforesaid,
that shall
not within Five days after such Notice, qualify himself, by taking
the Oaths
appointed by the said recited Act, shall incur the penalty mentioned
in the
said Act, to be recovered as by the same Act is directed, and applied
to the
Use therein mentioned.
III. And whereas
there is no Provision made by the above recited Act, for
the Appointment of Constables, on the Death or Removal of any Constable,
who shall die or remove before he hath served his due Time in that
Station limited
by Law, or that shall refuse to qualify upon any Appointment, according
to the Directions of this and the above recited Act: For Remedy
whereof;
Be it likewise Enacted, That where
any such Constable shall die, or remove
out of the County in which he shall be appointed, either before or
after his
Qualification in Manner aforesaid, that then, and in such case, it
shall
and may be lawful for any Two of the next Justices of the Peace, in
the
County where such Death, Removal, or Refusal shall happen, and they
are
hereby required, forthwith to appoint another proper Person in the
said
Hundred, to be Constable in the place and Stead of such Constable so
dead,
removed or refusing; which Person, by the Justices aforesaid so appointed,
upon their Certificate of such Appointment to him delivered, shall,
within
the Time aforesaid, and according to the Directions of this and the
above recited
Act, qualify himself, in the same Manner and Form, and be subject to
the same Penalties imposed by this and the above recited Act, on all
Constables
who shall be appointed at the First County Courts which shall be held
after Michaelmas respectively, are.
Examined and Compared with the Original Act, REVERDY GHISELIN,
THOMAS BACON.
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CHAP. VIII.
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Passed 23d
June 1752.
* 1715, ch. 47. |
A Supplementary ACT to an Act, entitled, * An Act for Quieting
Possessions, Enrolling Conveyances, and Securing
the Estates
of Purchasers. Lib. B.L.C. fol.
562. |
Preamble.
The Acknowledgment,
&c.
of a Non-Resident
Femme
Covert before
they Mayor of
any Corporation
in Great-Britain
or
Ireland. |
WHEREAS by the Act of Assembly, entitled, An Act for Quieting Possessions,
Enrolling Conveyances, and Securing the Estates of Purchasers,
or by any other Law of this Province, there is not any express Provision
made, how, or in what Manner, the Acknowledgment of any Femme
Covert named as a Grantor, Bargainor, or Donor, in such Deed
indented,
or mentioned in the said Act, for the Conveying Lands, Tenements, or
Hereditaments.
which lay within this Province, wherein such Femme Covert hath
the Estate of Inheritance, or taken only to bar her of Dower, where
she resides
out of this Province., shall be so taken: For Remedy whereof, and to
direct the Method of taking the Acknowledgment of such Femme Coverts
for
the future, it is humbly prayed that it may be Enacted;
II. And be it
Enacted, by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietor, by and
with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's President, 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, where any Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments,
lying and being within this Province, shall be conveyed by any Deed
whatsoever, wherein any Femme Covert shall be named as a Bargainor
or Vendor,
for transferring her Estate of Inheritance in such Lands, Tenements,
or
Hereditaments as aforesaid, or wherein such Femme Covert may
have Right or
Claim of Dower, only where any such Femme Covert as aforesaid,
shall, at
the Time of her executing such Deed, reside and be out of this Province,
in Great-Britain, Ireland, or within any Province, or Colony,
within his Majesty's |
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