LAWS OF MARYLAND—1734. 79
SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, by the authority, advice
and consent aforesaid. That the several clerks of the several
courts of record, register of the court of chancery, and register
of the commissary's court, within this province, shall be and
they are hereby obliged to deliver to the defendants, if required,
full copies, in a fair legible hand, of all the costs of suit recover-
ed against such defendant; and that if any clerk or register
shall refuse so to do, he shall forfeit and pay the sum of two
thousand pounds of tobacco, to be recovered in the county where
such clerk or register resides, and that one-half be applied to the
use of the public school in such county, and the other half to
the informer that shall sue for the same, to be recovered by
action of debt, bill, plaint or information, wherein no essoin,
protection or wager of law to be allowed.
MARCH, 17.34.—CHAPTER 16.
An ACT lo prevent the Injuring Harbours within this Province, and for
repealing the act therein mentioned.
A supplementary act, 1774, ch, 18. |
Clerks to
deliver
copies, &c. |
WHEREAS notwithstanding the laws heretofore made for the
preservation of harbours and landing places within this pro-
vince, masters of ships and vessels, and others having the
charge or command of ships and vessels, have caused or suf-
fered great quantities of ballast, from on board their ships and
vessels, to be thrown into the rivers and harbours within this
province, whereby many safe and very good harbours are
already spoiled, or rendered dangerous, which practice, if not
timely prevented, will be very hurtful to the trade and naviga-
tion of Great Britain, and entirely destructive to the trade and
navigation of this province: And whereas the said pernicious
practices have been continued and carried on, because, by the
laws heretofore made, masters of ships and vessels, or other
persons who have had the charge and command of ships and
vessels, and who therefore might and ought to have prevented
the said mischievous custom, have not been subject to any
penalty for neglecting their duty therein ; wherefore it is prayed
that it may be enacted, |
Preamble. |
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, by the right honourable, the Lord
Proprietary, by and with the advice and consent of his Lordship's
Governor, and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and
the authority of the same, That from and after the publication of
this act if any ballast shall be taken, unladen, or cast out of any
ship or other vessel, on any pretence whatsoever, within the
limits hereafter mentioned, but in the day time; that is to say,
between the rising and setting of the sun, or if any ballast shall
be unladen, or taken out of any ship or vessel in the bay of
Chesapeake, above Cedar point, below the mouth of Patuxent |
Ballast not
to be unla-
den, &c. |
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