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APPENDIX.
TO THE
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
THE STYLE of the SESSIONS, and the TITLES of all ACTS of ASSEMBLY,
in the order in which they passed, from the first settlement
of the Province down tot eh year 1692; also the ACTS
OF ASSEMBLY commonly called the LAND LAWS, and the several
Acts for QUIETING POSSESSIONS, ENROLLING CONVEYANCES
AND SECURING THE ESTATES OF PURCHASERS; directed
to be inserted by Resolutions passed at December Sessions
1817
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6 CÆCILIUS LORD BALTIMORE.
At a General Assembly, begun and held at St. Mary's, on
the 25th day of January, 1637, and ended the 24th day
of March following,
THE HONOURABLE
LEONARD CALVERT, ESQ. LIEUTENANT GENERAL.
In this Assembly, (the first of which
any record appears in the Province) the
Freemen, having rejected a Body of Laws drawn up in England and
transmitted
by his Lordship in order to be passed here, appointed a Committee to prepare
a
draught of Laws to be propounded to his Lordship for his assent; and accordingly
agreed to the bills whose titles are hereafter expressed: But they
were never enacted
into Laws; nor are any copies of them, or of those sent in by his Lordship,
to be found in our records.
1. A Bill for dividing
of the Province.
2. A Bill for Bounding
of Manors.
3. A Bill for Assigning
of Manors.
4. A Bill for the Order
to be observed in the Assignments.
5. A Bill for the Peopling
of Manors.
6. A Bill for the Supporting
of Manors.
7. A Bill for settling
of the Glebe.
8. A Bill against aliening
of Manors.
9. A Bill for Baronies.
10. A Bill for assigning of Freeholds.
11. A Bill for the Demesnes of the
Lord Proprietary.
12. A Bill for Building of the Town.
13. A Bill for the Erecting of a Fort.
14. A Bill for Planting of Corn.
15. A Bill for Restraint of Liquors.
16. A Bill for Military Discipline.
17. A Bill for ordering the Payment
of Tobacco.
18. A Bill for Services to be performed
for Manors and Freeholds.
19. A Bill for Assurance of Titles
to Lands. |
1637. |
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