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APPENDIX.
pounds of tobacco for each day they already have, or hereafter
shall serve as commissioners, and no more. |
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Allowance to commissioners
of review. |
3. AND forasmuch as by the before recited
act no provision is
made for commissioners of review, BE IT ENACTED, by and with
the authority, advice and consent aforesaid, That there be allowed
to each commissioners of review, the sum of one hundred
pounds of tobacco for each day he shall serve and attend, and no
more, to be paid by such of the contending parties as the said commissioners
shall adjudge.
This act together with the original
act of 1715, ch. 45, were repealed by 1718
ch. 18, which his Lordship dissented to. |
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1718.
Passed 10th May,
1718. |
MARYLAND, sc.
At a Session of Assembly, begun and held at the City of
Annapolis, in the County Anne-Arundel, the twenty-second
day of April, and ended the tenth day of May,
in the third year of the Dominion of the Right Honourable
Charles, Absolute Lord and Proprietary of the Provinces
of Maryland and Avalon, Lord Baron of Baltimore,
&c. Annoque Domini one thousand seven hundred
and
eighteen,
HIS EXCELLENCY
JOHN
HART, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
AMONGST OTHERS THE FOLLOWING LAW WAS ENACTED, TO WIT:
CHAP. XVIII.
An Act ascertaining the Bounds of the Land within this Province.
Lib.
LL. No. 4, fol. 410. |
The reason of the
law. |
Forasmuch as at the first settlement of this province,
the heathen
Indian enemies were so very numerous and barbarous, that both
the persons desirous to purchase lands and to settle and inhabit the
same, and also that surveyors appointed by the right honourable
the lord proprietary to survey and lay out such lands to the said
persons, were deterred from making so strict a scrutiny into the
true situation of the several rivers, creeks and branches of this
bay, so as to prevent the interference of the bounds limited and
appointed by the said surveyors, for each tract, and from settling
off the courses or measuring the true distances of lines directed to
run to the several trees or other bounds there prescribed to limit
and bound the said several tracts of land, and also the said surveyors
themselves so appointed, were too often both very ignorant
and negligent in performing their duty therein; and also forasmuch
as the bounded trees by them formerly bounded, (for very many of
the said former surveyors are dead,) and so far lost and forgotten,
that no remains or memory are left of the same, and the other
boundaries, either of bays, rivers, creeks or branches, as also of
courses and distances, so darkly and unskilfully exprest, that many
great controversies and suits have been and are daily moved
thereupon, and no certain method, as yet, being prescribed for the
speedy determination thereof, but a course at common law, and |
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