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CHAP.
XV.
Proviso. |
21 FREDERICK Lord BALTIMORE.
XVIII. Provided
always, and be it enacted, That before the said officer shall
enter upon the execution of his office, he shall take the several oaths,
or affirmations,
appointed by law to be taken to the government, and repeat and subscribe
the
oath of abjuration and the test before some justice of the peace. |
| Continuance. |
XIX. This act to continue three years, and
unto the end of the next session
of assembly which shall happen after the end of the said three years.
Continued for seven years, &c.
by the act of February, 1777, ch. 17, and for two years, &c. by the
act of 1784, ch. 83. |
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CHAP. XVI.
A Supplementary ACT to the act, entitled, An act to enable the justices
of Dorchester
county court, to assess and levy on the taxable inhabitants
of the said
county, a quantity of tobacco for the purpose of building
a court-house.
The county clerk is directed, before
the first day of June next, to remove the books, papers and records,
of the court, from the old house to some house in Cambridge, to be provided
by the justices, who
are authorised to pull down the old court-house, to sell its materials,
and to agree for a convenient place
to hold their courts, until the new house shall be completed. As
the public ground, on which the old house
stands, is too small, they are to assess the quantity of 18,000lb. of tobacco,
to be paid to the order of the
commissioners under the act of September, 1770, ch. 13. These commissioners
are empowered to cause the
surveyor to lay off, by boundaries, 30 feet in front and 45 feet in depth
of a lot adjoining the public ground,
belonging to Henry Ennalls, an infant, and the certificate thereof is to
be entered along the county records.
The said commissioners are further authorised to draw on the sheriff, in
favour of Mr. Ennalls's
guardian, for £. 40; the sheriff is directed to pay the money, taking
a receipt, and such payment shall invest
the justices of the county with a fee-simple of the ground so laid off. |
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CHAP. XVII.
An ACT to empower Frank Leeke and George Digges, administrators of
Charles
Digges, late of Prince-George's county, deceased, with
the last will of the same
Charles to their letters of administration annexed,
to sell a lot of ground of the
same Charles, situate and being in the town of Upper-Marlborough,
in Prince-George's
county aforesaid, for the payment of the debts of the
said Charles
Digges. PR. |
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CHAP. XVIII.
An additional supplementary ACT to the act, entitled, An act for the
relief of the
poor within the several counties therein mentioned.
For want of timely notification of
the act of November, 1770, ch. 7, no part of the 10 per poll, having
been that year assessed, the county court is directed, instead of the assessments
ordered by that act, to
assess, in November next, a quantity of tobacco, not exceeding 20lb. per
poll. |
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CHAP. XIX.
An ACT to enable the commissioners for emitting bills of credit, to
pay to William
Mills, John Peacock, Peter Payne, executor of Ralph
Price, and Anne
Gaither, the sums of money therein mentioned.
Viz. to William Mills 83 dollars, to
John Peacock 40 dollars, to Peter Payne 6 dollars, and to Anne
Gaither 66 2/3 dollars. |
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CHAP. XX.
An ACT to prevent the exportation of flour, staves and shingles,
not merchantable, from the town of Baltimore, in Baltimore
county, and to regulate the weight of hay and measure
of grain,
salt, flax-seed and fire-wood, within the said town,
and to prevent
the exportation of flour, not merchantable, from Fell's-point,
in the said county. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
that discoveries
have lately been made of certain deceits practised by millers and others
in the manufacture of flour, large quantities whereof are brought to
and sold in the said town of Baltimore and Fell's-point, and from thence
exported;
and that frequent disputes, and false weight and short measure, happen,
as well in
the weight of hay, measure of grain, salt and flax-seed, as in the cording
and measuring
of wood, and advantages are taken of the ignorant and unwary by the deceitful
practices of skippers, masters of vessels and boats, the like whereof also |
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