time of such repeal or expiring of each law to be noted in the
margin, as also the continuances of such acts as were originally
passed for a limited time, to be accompanied with a full and complete
index to the whole, compiled in the manner of the last edition
of the laws of Maryland; that the said edition be completed within
the present year so as to be laid before the general assembly at
their next annual meeting.
    RESOLVED, That there be included in the said collection the constitution
of this state as adopted by the convention, together with
the several alterations which have been made thereto by acts of
assembly since that period; and that by way of appendix there shall
be also included the acts of assembly, commonly called the Land
Laws, and the several acts for quieting possessions, enrolling conveyances,
and securing the estates of purchasers, which are not
printed in the last edition of the laws; that is to say, the acts of
1692, ch. 18, ch. 30; 1694, ch. 11; 1699, ch. 18, ch. 42; 1704, ch.
24, ch. 79, ch. 98; 1705, ch. 10; 1706, ch. 1; 1715, ch. 45; 1717,
ch. 9; 1718, ch. 18; 1720, ch. 17; together with such resolutions as
may have passed since the revolution in the opinion of the compilers
proper to be published.
    RESOLVED, That Jonas Green, printer to the state, be directed
to print, and procure to be bound, two hundred copies of the said
edition of the laws, under the direction of the said William Kilty,
Thomas Harris, and John N. Watkins, esquires.
    RESOLVED, That the clerk of the court of appeals for the western
shore be and hereby is directed, to furnish the said William Kilty,
Thomas Harris, and John N. Watkins, esquires, with copies of
such acts not already printed as they may require, and to compare
and examine, under their direction, the acts which they shall direct
to be printed in the said edition, with the records of the said acts
in the office of the court of appeals, and shall note under the title of
each act the liber and folio of the record book in which the same is
recorded.