DORCHESTER COUNTY
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

DOVE, RICHARD
 

DOWER

    The trustees of the Cambridge Academy incorporated,
    A road to be laid out from the Baptist meeting-house
to the Indian Landing on Black Water River,
—From the new meeting House on the road from
Cambridge to Hill's Point, and thence to Casson's
Point, &c.
    Part of the road from Black Water River to the head
of Hungar River to be changed,
    A road to be laid out from a point on the road to
Hill's Point and running down Eccleston's Neck, &c.
—A part of the road from Vienna to Henry's Cross
Roads to be changed
    Additional provisions for the regulation and improvement
of Cambridge,
    Penalty for erecting booths for selling spirituous liquors
within two miles of any Methodist camp or quarterly 
meeting,

    The election districts altered from three to five
—Provisional division of the districts made,
    The act of 1809, ch. 111, for cutting a canal from
Black Water River to Parson's Creek repealed, and
the bond of the managers annulled, except as to past
transactions,
    The sale of lot No. 9 on the Choptank Indian lands
authorised,
    The trustees of the Union School incorporated,
    The allowance to the sheriff increased for keeping
prisoners in gaol, &c.

    Commissioners of the school fund appointed,

    A road to be laid out from Chickone gate through
the Indian-town, down to the Walnut Landing,
    Directions for the preservation of the breed of wild
deer,
—Former acts, where inconsistent, repealed,
    A company incorporated for erecting a bridge over
Nanticoke river, at or near Vienna,
    A company incorporated to make  a wharf at Cambridge,
    The pay of the judges of the orphans court increased
to three dollars for every day's attendance, &c.
    Wears and hedges across Nanticoke river prohibited,
&c.
    The trustees of the New-Market Academy incorporated,
    A company incorporated for building a bridge over
the Northwest Branch of Nanticoke river, at the Rising
Sun,
    Money to be levied for a draw to Little Black Water
River Bridge,
    Retailers, &c. not to sell liquor to any free negro or
mulatto slave, between sunset and sunrise, or on the 
sabbath or to suffer them to be about their houses without
a written order,
—The provisions of the act of 1817, ch. 227, declared
to be in force in Dorchester county, &c.

    Of Prince-George's county—money to be levied for
his support,

    Actions of, not to abate by the death of either party,
    Where a man is convicted of bigamy, his first wife
shall be forthwith endowed of one third of his real estate,
the assignment and recovery to be as in other
cases of dower,
—When a woman is so convicted she shall forfeit
her claim to dower of the estate of her first husband,

  1812       123

  1813       129

  1814          5

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  1815        65

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  1816        25
  1816        35
Confirmed by
  1817        42
  1816      127
 

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  1815      162
 

 1816      270

  1817      161
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  1818      176
  1817      225
  1818        45

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  1812        20

  1801        74  38
 
 

  1809      138    7

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