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HORATIO SHARPE, Esq; Governor.
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1753. |
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CHAP. XVIII.
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An Act impowering the Justices of Prince George's County
to levy on the Taxable
Inhabitants of St. Paul's Parish, in the said
County, a g Sum of Current Money,
for the Uses therein mentioned. Lib. H.S.
fol. 32.
g Viz.
100 l. for Railing in the Grave Yards, and repairing the Church
and Chapel.
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Passed 17th
Nov. 1753. |
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CHAP. XIX.
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An Act to enable the Parishioners of Part of St. Andrew's Parish,
in St. Mary's
County, to choose Vestry-men and Church-wardens;
and to enable the Visitors of
the County School, in said County, to choose
Visitors. Lib. H.S. fol. 33.
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Ditto. |
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CHAP. XX.
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An Act to impower the Commissioners of Baltimore-Town, to
make an Addition
thereto of Thirty-two Acres of Land, or thereabouts,
to be laid out into Lots.
Lib. H.S. fol. 34.
N.B. By
this Act, (1.) The Commissioners of the said Town are impowered,
any Time
before the 1st April next, to cause 32 Acres of Land or thereabouts,
lying on the West Part of
the Town., to be surveyed and laid out into Lots. (2.) The
said 32 Acres so laid out, is declared
to be part of Baltimore-Town, to all Intents and Purposes, as fully,
&c. as if included
originally therein, and have the same Immunities and privileges as the
rest of the said Town.
(3.) Any Person that shall build or improve on
the said 32 Acres, &c. after the same shall be
laid out into Lots, as by former laws relating to the said town is directed,
and purchase the
same from the Proprietors, shall have an absolute Estate of Inheritance
in any Lot so to be built
on an purchased. (4.) But the Purchases or any part of the
said 32 Acres are hereby left to
agree with the Proprietors thereof, and not otherwise to have nay Title
to any of the said new
Lots. (5.) saving to the Crown, the Lord Proprietor, all Bodies
Politic and Corporate, and
all others not mentioned in this Act, their several and respective Rights.
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Ditto. |
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CHAP. XXI.
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An Act for raising a Duty of Three Half-pence Sterling per Hogshead,
on all Tobacco
exported out of this Province, for the use of the Governor.
Lib. H.S.
fol. 36. EXP. |
Ditto. |
Till the 1st December 1754.
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CHAP. XXII.
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An Act for amending the Staple of Tobacco, for preventing Frauds
in his Majesty's
Customs, and for the Limitation of Officers Fees.
Lib. H.S. fol. 37.
To continue in Force till the 1st
December 1758. Farther continued by 1758, ch. 7, until
the
1st December 1763, at which Time it expired, together with its Supplementary
and other dependent
laws, viz. 1754, ch. 1, and 3; 1755, ch. 31; 1758,
ch. 12; 1760, ch. 7,
and 14; and 1762, ch. 20, and 26. All which are included in
the new Act of 1763, ch. 18.
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Ditto. |
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CHAP. XXIII.
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An Act to cut off the Entail of Part of a tract of Land called Charley,
now
lying in Charles and Prince-George's Counties;
and to entail Lands of equal
Value in lieu thereof. Lib. H.S.
fol. 107. PR.
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Ditto. |
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CHAP. XXIV.
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An Act to repeal an Act, entitled, h An
Act for the Confirmation of the Lands
therein mentioned, to Richard Bennet, Esq;
Lib. H.S. fol. 111. PR.
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Ditto.
h 1720, ch. 8. |
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CHAP. XXV.
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An Act for the vesting and settling an Estate of Inheritance, in
Fee-simple, of and
in a certain parcel or Lot of Ground in the City of
Annapolis, containing One
Hundred and Twenty Feet in length, formerly,
by an i Act of Assembly of this
province, confirmed to Robert Gordon, of the
City of Annapolis, Merchant,
on Horatio Samuel Middleton, and his Heirs
for ever. Lib. H.S. fol. 113.
PR.
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Passed 17th
Nov. 1753.
i 1723, ch. 26. |
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CHAP. XXVI.
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A Supplementary and Explanatory ACT to an Act, entitled, * An
Act for the more effectual Punishment of Negroes and
other
Slaves, and for taking away the Benefit of Clergy from
certain
Offenders; and a Supplementary act to an Act, entitled,
An
Act to prevent the tumultuous Meetings, and other Irregularities
of Negroes and other Slaves. Lib. H.S.
fol. 115.
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Passed 17th
Nov. 1753.
* 1751, ch. 14. |
WHEREAS by an Act of Assembly of this Province, entitled, k
An
Act for the more effectual Punishment of Negroes and other Slaves,
and for taking away the benefit of Clergy from certain Offenders; and |
Preamble.
k 1751, ch.
14, §. 9. |
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