594 Assembly Proceedings, May 26-June 11, 1697.

Lib. L, L. 2
p. 152

appointed as aforesaid then and there to Survey & lay out in
the presence of the Jury aforesaid such Lands by them taken
up for the use of the County aforesaid and the same att the
end of each Angle shall bound with a good and substantiall
Locust Post or other durable wood to be six foot under
Ground att the least and five foot above as also such and so
many Posts within the Angles afores^d as may be discovered
from one to the other which posts when and as often as they
shall decay the Comissioners shall Cause new ones to be
affixed in theire places att the County Charge forever and the
respective Surveyors return two Certificates of such Surveys
by them made as aforesaid with faire platts of the same one
whereof to his Excell^cy the Governor and Councill as afores^d
and the other to be Recorded and kept in the County Court
as afores^d any Law Statute usage or Custom to the Contrary
notwithstanding And be it Enacted by the Authority afores^d
by and with the Advice and Consent afores^d That the Lott
whereon the Court house of Dorchester County now stands
together w^th the Tenements thereon being formerly Taken up
being either Imbezled or Casually Lost be and remain to the
use of the County for ever as firmly and absolutly as if the
same had been Actually Conveyed by the true Owner or
Owners thereof any thing herein Conteined to the Contrary
notwithstanding.

p. 153

An Act Directing and appointing to what use the severall
Rooms in the State house in the Town and Porte of Annapolis
shall be Applyed to.

Whereas this Province hath been att a great Charge and
Expences in the building of a State house or a Publick house
of Judicature att this Porte of Annapolis which is now allmost
finished and Compleated and to the end that the said house
and the Severall rooms and appartments therein may in time
present and to Come be applyed and appropriated to the uses
and purposes the same was Designed for and no other
Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Maty by and
with the Advice and Consent of this present Generall Assem-
bly and the Authority of the Same That the said State house
and the Severall Rooms and appartments therein for the time
present and to Come be and is hereby Appointed and Appro-
priated to the uses and purposes hereafter mentioned and no
other that is to say the great Room below staires for Courts
and Assemblys to sitt in the little Room below the staires to
be for a Magazine for every thing but powder to lye in the
two Rooms on the Right hand above Stairs for Jury and
Comittee rooms the two rooms on the left hand to be for Pro-
vinciall and Land Office Records to be kept in and the fore '