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6 WILLIAM and MARY.
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CHAP. III.
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Passed 18th
October 1694. |
An Act confirming and making valid the last Will and Testament of
Augustine
Herman, late of Cæcil County, Gentleman,
as it now stands recorded in the
Commissary General's Office of this Province.
Lib. LL. N° 2. fol. 56. PR. |
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CHAP. IV.
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| Ditto. |
An Act for the Naturalization of Peter Ferdinando, and his
Children, of Andrew
Imbert, Claudius Dutitree, Gerrardus Weessels, and
James
his
son, Abraham
Ambrose, Lewis de Roch Brune, John de Vagha, Herman
Van
Burkelo, Nicholas de la Montagne, Hendrick Sluyter,
and
Jacob
Sluyter,
junior. Lib. LL. N° 2. fol.
57.
PR. |
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CHAP. V.
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| Ditto. |
An Act touching Coopers and the Gauge of Tobacco Hogshead.
Lib. LL. N° 2.
fol. 58. REP. |
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An Additional Act in 1700, ch. 4, and a new
Act 1704, ch. 53.
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CHAP. VI.
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| Ditto. |
An Act for Confirmation of all Proceedings, Judicial, Military and
Civil, from
the Death of his Excellency Lyonel Copley,
Esq;
their Majesty's late Governor
and Captain General of Maryland, &c.
unto
the Arrival of his present Excellency
Francis Nicholson, Esq; the present Governor
thereof. Lib. LL. N° 2.
fol. 62. |
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See the Act of 1704, ch. 36.
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CHAP. VII.
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| Ditto. |
An Act ascertaining the Expences of the Delegates of Assembly, and
Commissioners
of the Provincial and County Courts. Lib.
LL.
N° 2. fol. 66. REP. |
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A new Act made 1704, ch. 70. This Act
repeals 1692, ch. 18.
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CHAP. VIII.
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| Ditto. |
An ACT for Erecting Ann-Arundel and Oxford Towns, into
Ports and Towns. Lib. LL. N° 2.
fol.
69. |
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An Additional Act made 1695, ch. 7.
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Ann-Arundel
and Oxford
erected into
Ports and
Towns.
A Collector
and Naval
Officer to
reside at each.
Commissioners
for laying
out the
Towns. |
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 from and
after the Publication hereof, the Land
called the Town Land at Severn,
in Ann-Arundel County, where the Town
was formerly; and the land at Oxford
in Talbot County, where the Town
was formerly; shall from henceforth
be Towns and Ports, and Places of Trade,
where all Ships and Vessels may
come to for Entering and Clearing. To
which End, the Collector of that
District, or his lawful Deputies, shall constantly
reside at the said Towns and Ports:
And also some Naval Officer or
Officers, or their Deputies, shall
constantly also reside there, for giving Dispatch
to all Ships or Vessels coming or
trading into them Parts.
II. And,
that
the same Ports and Towns may be capable of being built
upon, and inhabited by Persons desiring
to dwell and inhabit in them, Be
it Enacted by
the Authority aforesaid, That from and after the Proclaiming of
this Act, all and every the Persons
named herein for Commissioners, shall
be Commissioners of and for the
said Two Towns, and each of them, and
they, and every of them, shall and
may execute the Powers and Authorities
hereby given them, according to
the Directions hereafter given and prescribed,
as well for the buying and purchasing
the aforesaid Town Lands, of now
Owners and Possessors of the same,
as for the surveying and laying out the
same, and staking out the several
Lots to be laid out in them, to the End the
Length, Breadth and Extent of each
Lot, in each Town and Port, may be
known and distinguished, (that
is to say) For the said Town, and Port of
Ann-Arundel, in Ann-Arundel
County aforesaid, Major Hammond, Major Edward
Dorsey, Mr. John Bennett,
Mr. John Dorsey, Mr. Andrew Norwood,
Mr. Philip Howard, Mr. James
Sanders, and the Honourable
Nicholas Greenberry,
Esq; And for the Town and Port in
Talbot County, at Oxford
aforesaid, |
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