54 LAWS OF MARYLAND.—1719.
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which writ, in case the person or persons who by the said
inquest shall be found to be the true owners and possessors of
the land fit to build a forge-mill, and other conveniencies neces-
sary for carrying on an iron-work, shall refuse to build such
forge-mill, and other conveniencies for such iron-work thereon,
within six months from that date to be computed and reckoned,
and give security the same building to prosecute and finish
within four years after the beginning and laying the foundation
of such forge-mill, it shall and may be lawful for his said lord-
ship, his heirs and successors, or for the governor here for the
time being, from time to time, to grant any such one hundred
acres of land fit to build a forge-mill, and conveniencies for an
iron-work as aforesaid, together with free egress and regress to
the said mill, through any man's land next adjoining, by the
virtue of the writ aforesaid returned, to be paid to the owner of
the said land so found and returned as aforesaid; which said
grant to be made as aforesaid, shall be good and available in
law to the grantee or grantees as aforesaid, against all persons
whatsoever, any law, custom or usage to the contrary notwith-
standing. |
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Proviso. |
SEC. 3. Provided always, That before any person or persons
whatsoever shall have such grant to build a forge-mill, and
other conveniencies for an iron-work as aforesaid, he or they
shall enter into bond to his said lordship, with two sufficient
sureties, in the sum of one hundred pounds stalling, with con-
dition to begin to build the said forge-mill, and conveniencies
for the iron-work as aforesaid, within six months then next to
come, and the same building to prosecute and finish within
four years after such beginning. |
Workmen
to be levy
free. |
SEC. 4. And, forasmuch as for the carrying on so consi-
derable a work, it will be absolutely necessary for the under-
takers to import, or otherwise retain in their service, great num-
bers of experienced workmen, and that they must unavoidably
be at vast expenses before they can bring such work to any
tolerable perfection, so as to reap any benefit therefrom; for
their better encouragement, Be it enacted, That all such work-
men or labourers as shall be by such undertakers constantly
employed in the carrying on such useful and beneficial works,
shall be exempt from the paying of levies for the first four
years after their being employed in such work as aforesaid, pro-
vided that the number of such workmen as shall be levy free
exceed not eighty for any one iron-work.
Inapplicable, as there is no poll tax. |
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Proviso. |
SEC. 6. Provided nevertheless, That in case such under-
takers shall not prosecute such ironwork to the running of
pigs fit for transportation, within seven years next after their
being seized of such lands, by virtue of such writ, in manner
aforesaid, that then it shall and may be lawful for the person or |
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