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7 WILLIAM and MARY.
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CHAP.
II. |
House of the Province, hold and keep the said County
Court, and so all County Courts for the
said County, shall for ever hereafter, be held and kept
at the said Port of Annapolis, at Severn
River aforesaid, in Ann-Arundel County aforesaid,
and at no other Place whatsoever in the said
County. (2.) The Records of the said County
to be removed to the said Port, there to be kept,
&c. (3.) The Parish Church to be built within
the said Port, in such Place as shall be thought
fit and convenient by the present Governor. (4.)
Which Port shall for ever hereafter be
denominated, called and known by the Name of the Port of ANNAPOLIS,
and by no other
Name or Distinction whatsoever. |
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CHAP. III.
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Passed 22d
May 1695. |
An Act for securing Executors and Administrators from double paying
of Debts,
and limiting the Time for Payment of Obligations
within this Province. Lib.
LL. N° 2. fol. 85. REP.
N.B. The
first Part of this Act, relating to Executors, &c. is re-enacted verbatim
in
the
present Testamentary Act of 1715, ch. 39. §.
42. And the latter Part enacted, that Bonds and
other Obligations under Hand and Seal, not renewed within
every five Years, should not be
suable or impleadable in any Court, &c. |
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CHAP. IV.
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| Ditto. |
An Additional Act for better Administration of Justice in Probat
of
Wills, Granting of Administrations, Recovering
of Legacies, and Securing of
Filial Portions. EXP.
For 3 Years or to the End of the next
Session. Continued 1695, ch. 26. The original Law
of 1692, ch.
3, together with this, was re-enacted 1699, ch. 1. |
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CHAP. V.
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| Ditto. |
An Act for regulating of Ordinaries, and limiting the Number of
them within this
Province. REP.
This Act gave the Ordinary
Licence Money to the Secretary. A new Act made 1699, ch. 35.
A Supplementary
Act 1698, ch.
9. |
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CHAP. VI.
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| Ditto. |
An Act restraining the frequent Assembling of Negroes within this
Province. EXP. |
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For 3 Years, or to the end of the next Session.
Continued 1695, ch. 26.
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CHAP. VII.
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| Ditto. |
An Additional ACT to the * Act for Ports. Lib. LL. N°
2.
fol. 88. |
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* Viz. 1694, ch, 8, the Title
of which is here mis-quoted.
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Oxford to be
laid out anew.
Ship-yards to
be reserved in
Oxford and
Ann-Arundel.
Naval Officers
to reside
there.
Ann-Arundel
to be called
Annapolis, and
Oxford by the
Name of
Williamstadt.
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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 the Town
Land at Oxford, in Talbot County,
constituted and appointed a Town
and Port by a former Act of Assembly,
made at a Session of Assembly, begun
and held at the City of St. Mary's,
the
One and twentieth Day of September,
in the Year of our Lord One Thousand
six Hundred ninety four, be again
surveyed and laid out, that is to say, some
Time before the last Day of September
next, before the Commissioners in the
afore recited Act nominated and
appointed, bounding the same at Low-
Water-Mark, including the Island, and so to the old bounded Tree at the
Southernmost Part of the Neck
II And,
That
as well in the said Port and Town, as in the Port and Town
of Ann-Arundel, there be
One or more Places laid out and reserved, as the
Commissioners of the respective
Ports shall think fit, for the Building of
Ships and other Vessels.
III. And,
That the Officers of the Lord
Proprietary, for receiving the
Duties due and payable to his said Lordship, be hereby obliged, by themselves,
or Deputies thereunto authorized and appointed, to reside at the said Ports
and Towns, for the Dispatch of Ships and other Vessels Entering and Clearing
at such Ports and Towns as aforesaid.
IV. And
be it also Enacted by
the Authority aforesaid, That the Two
Ports of Ann-Arundel and Oxford, for the future, shall be
called, known and
distinguished by the Names or Appellations of ANNAPOLIS, and
WILLIAMSTADT; that is to say, the Port of Ann-Arundel
to be
called by the Name of Annapolis, and Oxford by the
Name of Williamstadt. |
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