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4 FREDERICK Lord BALTIMORE.
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At a Session of ASSEMBLY begun and held at the
City of Annapolis, the 12th, and ended
the 24th
Day of December, in the Fourth 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.
Annoq; Domini 1754: The following Law was
Enacted. |
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HORATIO SHARPE, Esq; Governor.
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CHAP. XXI.
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Passed 24th
Dec. 1754. |
An Act for taking and detaining able bodied Men for his Majesty's
Service. Lib.
H.S. fol. 165.
So much of this Act as relates
to the raising and levying Men, to be in Force for One Year,
and no longer.
In §. III, of this Act, which is still in Force,
it is Enacted, That " if any Person or Persons
" enlisted by Virtue of this Act, or otherwise, within this Province, shall
be so maimed or
" wounded in his Majesty's Service, as to be rendered incapable of maintaining
themselves; he
" or they shall, upon his or their Return, be supported at the Public Expence:
Provided such
" Persons, at the Time of their Enlisting, were Residents within this Province."
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| 1755. |
At a Session of ASSEMBLY begun and held at
the City of Annapolis, the 22d Day of February,
and ended the 26th Day of March, in the 4th
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. Annoq; Domini 1755:
The following
Laws were Enacted. |
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HORATIO SHARPE, Esq; Governor.
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CHAP. I
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Passed 26th
March 1755. |
An Act directing the Commissioners of the Currency Office, speedily
to call in the
Interest due on Bonds and other Securities, and all
Monies due on Funds payable
into the said Office. Lib. H.S. fol. 168.
OBS.
N.B. By
this Act, the Commissioners were directed to give public Notice in the
MARYLAND
GAZETTE, " That the several Debtors to the Office, whether for Money
collected
" upon Funds, or for Interest upon Bonds, &c. should pay the Sums so
due into the said Office,
" by the 1st of June next ensuing;" and if not then paid in, immediately
to proceed to the
Recovery of Principal and Interest due on such Bonds, according to the
Act of 1747, ch. 23,
and of other Securities, and Money collected upon Funds as aforesaid, according
to Law. A
Modus of Proceeding was likewise prescribed for the Sale of Goods, Chattels,
Lands or Tenements,
taken in Execution at the Instance of the Commissioners, by Fieri facias
or Attachment,
viz. The Sheriff or Coroner (after Ten Days Notice thereof,
by Advertisement set up in the
most Public Places in the County, for the Sale of Goods and Chattels; and
Thirty Days Notice
as aforesaid, and Publication thereof in the MARYLAND GAZETTE, for
the Sale of Lands
and Tenements) should proceed to set the same to Sale in the most public
Manner to the highest
Bidder, for Bills of Credit; and, after discharging the Office Claims and
Costs of Suit out of the
Money arising by the Sale, to return the Overplus to the Defendant or Debtor.
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CHAP. II
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An Act for the Continuance of Process in Baltimore County
Court. Lib. H.S.
fol. 170. OBS. |
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