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4 WILLIAM and MARY.
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CHAP. IV.
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Passed 9th of
June 1692. |
An Act for Settlement of an annual Revenue upon their Majesty's
Governor within
this Province, for the Time being. Lib. LL.
fol. 21. Lib. WH and L*.
fol. 117. and Lib. LL. N° 2. fol.
30. REP.
N.B. The
new Act of 1704, ch. 42, is (mutatis mutandis) copied from
this Act. The material
Differences, and which seem to be chiefly owing to the Fault of the Transcribers,
or Ingrossers
of the Bill, are pointed out in the Note upon that Act. See a Supplementary
Act below,
ch. 7.
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CHAP. V.
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| Ditto. |
An Act against Divulgers of false News. Lib. LL. fol.
24. and Lib. WH and
L*. fol. 140. REP.
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CHAP. VI.
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| Ditto. |
An Act for Naturalization. Lib. LL. fol. 46. and Lib. WH and
L*. fol. 141.
EXP.
N.B. By
this Act, the present Governor, during the Time of his continuing Governor,
was
enabled to declare (by a Public Instrument under the Great Seal) any Aliens
already settled, or
hereafter coming to settle within the Province, having taken the Oath of
Allegiance before him,
to be to all Intents and Purposes, fully and compleatly Naturalized.
The Governor to have a Fee
of 3 l. and 10 s. to the Clerk for drawing the Patent.
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CHAP. VII.
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| Ditto. |
A Supplementary Act to the * Act for Settlement of an annual Revenue
upon their
Majesty's Governor, within this Province, for the Time
being. Lib. LL. fol.
27. and Lib. WH and L*. fol. 142.
EXP.
* Ch. 4, above.
This Act gave 3 d. per Hogshead on all Tobaccoes exported, for 3
Years certain.
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CHAP. VIII.
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| Ditto. |
An Act for securing the Rights of several Persons. Lib. LL.
fol. 28. Lib. WH and L*.
fol. 12. and Lib. LL. N° 2. fol.
6. PR.
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| Preamble |
WHEREAS many and frequent Complaints have been made, by divers
good People of this Province, who of late Years have procured,
of the Lord proprietary of this Province, Warrants for
the Laying out and Taking up several Quantities of Land within the same,
and
have passed their Bond to his Lordship, according to his late Conditions
of
Plantations for the same: And by Virtue of their Warrants, the several
Surveyors
of this Province, had, before the Revolution of Affairs within the
same, surveyed and laid out, pursuant to the said Warrants, several Tracts
and Parcels of Land for them or to their Assigns; and either had returned
the
Certificate of the same unto the Examiner, or had it in their Hands ready
to
return, before the Revolution as aforesaid. But the same Certificate
either
not arrived in the Land-Office of this Province, or if the same was, no
Patents
as yet for the same granted; and his Lordship having shut up the Land-Office
of this Province, and no Person being qualified to grant Patents for the
same; they, and others in the like Condition, are in great Danger of losing
the Benefit and Estate of and in their said Lands so laid out and surveyed
as
aforesaid: In tender Consideration whereof, and for the Prevention
of such
Evils and Inconveniences within this Province, your Majesty's most dutiful
and loyal Subjects, the Burgesses and Delegates of this present General
Assembly,
on the behalf of the good People of this Province, do humbly pray
that it may be Enacted: And,
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Lands surveyed
by any
lawful Surveyor
within,
&c. and not
yet Patented,
shall on Proof
thereof, &c.
be held by the
Person to
whom such
Warrants
were granted. |
II. Be it Enacted by
the King and Queen's most Excellent Majesties, by and
with the Advice and Consent of this present General Assembly, and the Authority
of the same, That any person
or Persons whatsoever, being free Denizens and
Subjects to the Crown of England, that at any Time heretofore, within
the
Space of Five Years last past, had obtained of his Lordship the Lord Proprietary
of this Province, from himself, or from any Person by, from or under
him, any Warrant or Warrants, for any parcel or Parcels of Land, either
of Re-survey, or to be taken up within this Province, and by Virtue of
which any Parcel or parcels of Land whatsoever, was, by any lawful Surveyor |
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