| 15 FREDERICK Lord BALTIMORE.
At a SESSION of ASSEMBLY, begun and held
at the city of ANNAPOLIS, on Monday
the 23d day
of September, in the 15th year of
the dominion of
the Right Honourable FREDERICK, absolute
lord
and proprietary of the provinces of
Maryland and
Avalon, lord baron of Baltimore, &c.
and ended the
28th day of September, anno domini
1765: The
following law was enacted:
HORATIO SHARPE, Esq; Governor.
An ACT to continue all such acts of assembly of this province, as would
expire
with this session of assembly.
The acts, which were to expire with that session, were
continued until the end of the next session.
At a SESSION of ASSEMBLY, begun and held
at the city of ANNAPOLIS, on Friday
the first day
of November, in the 15th year of the
dominion of
the Right Honourable FREDERICK, absolute
lord
and proprietary of the provinces of
Maryland and
Avalon, lord baron of Baltimore, &c.
and ended the
20th day of December, anno domini
1765: The
following laws were enacted.
HORATIO SHARPE, Esq; Governor. |
1765. |
CHAP. I.
A Supplementary ACT to the act, entitled, An act relating to the
standard of English weights and measures. |
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WHEREAS, by the act, entitled, An act relating to
the standard of English
weights and measures, no penalty is imposed upon persons buying
by any dry measure or measures, without first having the said measure
or measures tried and stamped at the standard, as there is upon the
seller. And
whereas it is represented to this general assembly, that many buyers
of grain, flaxseed,
and other commodities, when the people have carried them a great distance
to market, refuse to buy them unless by measure or measures of their
own, which
have been found, upon trial, to be larger than the standard aforesaid. |
Preamble. |
II. Be it therefore
enacted, by the right honourable the lord proprietary, by and
with the advice and consent of his lordship's governor, and the
upper and lower houses
of assembly, and the authority of the same, That if any person
or persons, shall hereafter
buy by any dry measure or measures, being his, her, or their property,
or
found or provided by him, her or them, contrary to the true intent
and meaning
of the above recited act, he, she, or they, shall forfeit and pay the
sum of five
pounds current money for every offence; one half thereof to the informer,
or him,
her or them that shall sue for the same, and the other half to be paid
into the
hands of the treasurer of the respective shore where such forfeiture
shall happen,
and applied as the general assembly for the time being shall direct
and appoint;
to be recovered in any court of record within this province, by action
on the case,
action of debt, bill of indictment or information, wherein no essoin,
protection, or
wager of law, or more than one imparlance shall be allowed. |
Penalty on
persons buying,
unless the
measures are
agreeable to
act of 1715,
ch. 10. |
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