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35 and 36 CHARLES Lord BALTIMORE.
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CHAP.
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Mile above a Place called The Burnt-house Woods;
and running thence up the said Road to a
bounded White Oak standing on the East side thereof at
the Head of a Draught of Sam's Creek;
thence N. 55º E. to a Spanish Oak standing
on a Ridge near William Roberts's, and opposite to the
Head of a Branch called the Beaver-Dam; and running
thence N. 20º E. to the Temporary Line
between the Provinces of Maryland and Pennsylvania,
being near the Head of a Draught of Conwago,
at a rocky Hill called Rattle-Snake Hill:
Which said Lines are hereby established as the
Boundaries between the said Counties; and all the Lands
on the South-East side of the said
Lines to be deemed to be in Baltimore County,
&c. and all the Lands on the West-North-West
sides, to be Part of Frederick County, &c.
(2.) The Branch running up to the Widow Owens,
late the Wife of William Owens, and from thence
up the main Branch, between John Marriot's
and Edward Burris's, shall be the Division between
the Two Counties of Dorchester and Worcester:
And all the Lands on the North side of the said Branch shall be deemed
to be in Dorchester County;
and all the Lands to the Southward thereof to be deemed to be in Worcester
County.
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CHAP. XIV.
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Passed 2d
June 1750 |
An ACT to oblige Owners, Overseers, and Managers of Iron-Works
to assist in repairing Public Roads. Lib.
B.L.C. fol.
497.
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Owners of
Iron-Works,
to send one,
out of every
10 labouring
Persons, to
assist in clearing,
&c.
Highways. |
BE it 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
the Owner
or Owners, Overseer or Overseers, or Mangers, of any Iron-Work or
Works within this Province, shall, from Time to Time, and at all Times
hereafter, permit and suffer One Labourer out of every Ten labouring Persons,
belonging to, or employed in working at such Work or Works, to observe
the Orders of the respective Overseers of the highways, where such
Work or Works are, or may be, in assisting in or about the Clearing, Mending
and Repairing the Highways or Public Roads and Bridges, in such Manner
as other Labourers, and male Taxable Persons are compelled to do, by an
Act of Assembly of this Province, entitled, k An
Act for the marking of
Highways, and making the Heads of Rivers, Creeks, Branches, and Swamps,
passable
for Horse and Foot, made at a Session of Assembly begun and
held at the
Town and Port of Annapolis, the Fifth Day of September, in
the Year of our
Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Four, and subject to the like Pains
and Penalties as are by the said recited Act directed; to be recovered
and applied
according to the Directions of any Act of Assembly, entitled, l
An Act
directing the Manner of the Recovery of Fines, for not appearing
at the Clearing
of the Highways; any Law, Usage or Custom heretofore to the
contrary notwithstanding.
Examined and Compared with the Original Act, REVERDY GHISELIN,
THOMAS BACON.
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CHAP. XV.
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Passed 2d
June 1750. |
An Act to impower the Justices of Prince-George's County
Court, for the Time
being, to treat and agree with an Undertaker or Undertakers,
to stop a Breach
now made from the North-West Branch of Patuxent
River, in said County, across
the main Road in Queen-Anne Town in said County;
and to levy on the
Taxable inhabitants thereof, a Sum of Money for the
Purposes therein mentioned.
Lib. B.L.C. fol. 497.
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CHAP. XVI.
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A Supplementary Act to the Act, entitled, m
An Act to impower the Justices of
Queen-Anne's County Court, to sell the Materials
of the old Prison of that
County, and the Produce thereof to apply as therein
directed. Lib. B.L.C. fol. 498.
m 1749,
ch. 10, Which was not carried into Execution, the materials of the
old Prison being
of small Value to any Purchaser who should be obliged to pull down and
remove the same; therefore
the present Act impowered the Justices to sell the old Prison, together
with One fourth Part
of an Acre of the public Land whereon it stood, &c.
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CHAP. XVII.
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| Ditto. |
An Act to enable the Vestry-men and Church-wardens of King and
Queen Parish,
in St. Mary's County, for the Time being, to
sell a certain Tract of Land
therein mentioned, and to apply the Produce Money or
Tobacco arising by such
Sale towards the Purchase of another Piece of Land,
to be made a Glebe, for the
Use of the Incumbent of that Parish, and his Successors.
Lib. B.L.C. fol. 499. |
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