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1683.
Passed 6th of Nov.
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APPENDIX.
At a Session of Assembly, begun and holden at the Ridge,
Anne-Arundel County, on Tuesday the 2d of October, in
the 8th year of the Dominion of Charles, &c. Annoq.
Domini 1683, and ended Tuesday the 6th November following,
HIS LORDSHIP IN PERSON.
THE FOLLOWING LAWS WERE ENACTED.
CHAP. I.
An act for Naturalizing John Cosins, Peter Maise de Moisne, and
Andrew Matson. A Private Act. |
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Ditto. |
CHAP. II.
An act limiting the Extent of Attachments, and providing what
shall be levied on Attachments and Executions.
Lib. WH. fol.
248.
To endure 3 years, or to the end of
the next session, &c. Continued 1684, ch.
6, 1686, ch. 3, and 1688, ch. 2. A new law 1692, ch. 62. |
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Ditto. |
CHAP. III.
An act for regulating the Tares and Abuses of Tobacco Hogsheads.
Lib. WH. fol. 247.
To endure 3 years, or to the end of
the next session, &c. Continued 1684, ch.
6. 1686, ch. 3, and 1688, ch. 2. Expired. |
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Ditto. |
CHAP. IV.
An act for Naturalizing Andrew Poulson, alias Mullock, Simon
Johnson, Peter Anleton, and Matthias Peterson, and their
Children.
A Private Act. |
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Ditto. |
CHAP. V.
An act for Advancement of Trade. Lib. WH. fol. 250.
This being the first attempt to establish
towns, ports, and places of trade, within
the province; and the property gained under this and the supplementary,
and
other subsequent acts to the same end (though repealed or dissented to)
being confirmed
by the act of 1715, ch. 32, the following abstract of it is given.
(1.) From and after the 8th August 1685, the towns,
ports and places hereafter
mentioned, shall be the ports and places where all ships and vessels, trading
into
this province, shall unlade, and put on shore, and sell, barter and traffic
away,
all goods, &, imported into this province. And all tobacco, goods,
&c. of the
growth, production or manufacture of this province, intended to be sold
here, or
exported, shall be for that intent brought to the said ports and places,
viz.
St. Mary's County, at
The city of St. Mary's.
Britton's Bay, at John Bailey's, or Taunt's.
The Indian Town.
Choptico, his Lordship's Manor.
Kent County, at
Shipping, alias Coxe's Creek.
New-Yarmouth, in Grey's Inn Creek.
Anne Arundel County, at
The Town at Proctor's.
South River, on Col. Burgess his Land.
Herring-Creek, on the Town Land.
Calvert County, at
St. Leonard's creek, on Richard Smith's land.
Rolling-Point, on his Lordship's Manor.
* John Bowling's land, near Gaunt's
land.
Warrington on the Clifts, town land.
* Discharged from being a town by 1684, ch. 2, s. 2. |
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