490 Assembly Proceedings, Sept. — Oct. 1663.

P. R. O.
Colonial En
try Book
No. 53

An Act for a Prison at S^t Mary's.

Whereas divers Inconveniencies have hapened w^th in this
pvince through the want of places for the Secureing offend^th w^ch
being Seriously thought vppon by the Burgesses of this p^rsent
Assembly they doe pray th^t itt be Enacted And be itt Enacted
by the Lord Proprietary by & w^th the Consent of the vpp^r &
Lower howse of this p^rsent Assembly th^t A Logg howse be built
Twenty foot Square at S^t Mary's vppon the Counteyes Lands
for a Prison in the yeare 1664 & then Two Thousand pounds of
Tobacco to bee payd for the same out of the Country Leavyes
th^t Yeare.
And bee itt furth^r enacted by the Authority aforesaid th^t a Pil-
lory Stockes & Duckinge Stoole be erected by the said Prison at
the Publique Charge of the whole province And th^t the Sherriffe
of S^t Mary's County bee hereby Impow^rd to see this Act per-
formed and vppon defaulte therein shall fforfeite ffive hundred
pounds of Tobacco to be p^d to the Lord Proprietary

The vpp^r howse have Assented
John Gittings Clke
The low^r howse have Assented
W^m Bretton Clke