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An Abridgment of the Laws of
III. Every Commissioner that
shall not attend at the
Courts, so appointed in his respective County, shall be
fined 200 l. of Tobacco, to be disposed of as the Court
then sitting shall think fit, unless such Commissioner
make lawful excuse to be allowed by the Court.
IV. Any 2 Commissioners, whereof one of
the Quorum,
meeting as aforesaid, are impowered to adjourn the
Court, as to them shall seem meet, and no Suit for want of
a full Court shall fall or abate, but shall be continued to
the next Court, to be held according to such adjournments
as aforesaid.
V. If the first day appointed by this Act
for holding
the respective Courts, be not time sufficient to dispatch
the business depending, the Justices may adjourn from
day to day, till the business be finished.
VI. The Commissioners of every County Court
may,
and ought to hear, judge, and determine any Business
depending in the June Court between any Persons whatsoever,
as well as Orphans Business.
VII. An. 7. W. & M. 1695.
p. 30. The Justices of
the County Court of Ann-Arundel County, shall at
their next meeting in their County Court adjourn themselves
to the Port of Annapolis, upon the River of Severn
in Ann-Arundel County; and at the Court house
there keep all the County Courts for the said County for
ever hereafter, and the Records of the said County shall
be removed to the said Port, and there kept. Also the
Church to be built for the Parish in which the said Port
is, shall be built within the said Port.
VIII. An. Dom. 1697. p. 44.
The Commissioners of the
several Counties within this Province, shall at or before
the 10th of April next, meet at their usual place of meeting,
and contract and agree with the Owners of such
Lands, whereon their respective Court House or Houses
are erected, whereunto the respective County can lay
no just Title or Claim, for so much Land whereon such
Court House shall stand (not exceeding 3 Acres) and
upon such Agreement take a Conveyance thereof in the
name of the King, to the use of the County. Which
shall be Recorded in the County Court, and the sum
of Tobacco agreed for, levy'd by Assessment on the respective
County.
IX. In case such Owner or Owners shall
refuse to sell,
or be unreasonable in their Demands, or incapacitated
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