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Bear's Head (other than what shall be killed by an Indian) before
the Party producing the same shall make Oath (or Affirmation if a
Quaker) that the Bear, for which the Certificate is desired, was
killed in the County aforesaid, after the making this Act; nor to
give a Certificate for the Head of any Bear killed by an Indian,
unless the said Head be brought to him whole and entire, and that it
appear to be green, and fresh killed; anything herein contained to

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the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding.
III. This Act to continue in Force for Three Years, and from
thence 'til the End of the next Session of Assembly, which shall
happen after the said Three Years.

Chap. XIII
and XIV are
private acts ;
text not
found]

An Act for Erecting a new Parish, out of that Part of St. Paul's
Parish that lies in Anne-Arundel County, and out of All-
Hallow's and St. Anne's Parishes in the said County.

Whereas it is represented to this present General Assembly, by
the Inhabitants in and about Elk-Ridge, in Anne-Arundel County,
That they have been for many Years in a melancholly Condition,
for want of the Gospel, and the Blessed Means thereof, dispenced
among them, the Parish-Church in St. Paul's Parish aforesaid,
wherein they live, lying at such Distance, and the Falls so difficult,
that it is impossible for them and their Families to repair to it :
And therefore the said Inhabitants humbly prayed, that they might
have a new Parish taken out of the several Parishes aforesaid, ac-
cording to the Bounds hereafter expressed.
And whereas, the Rev. Messieurs William Tibbs, John Hum-
phrys, and Joseph Colebatch, the present Incumbents of the several
Parishes aforesaid, having had due Notice hereof, and making no
material Objections against the Passing of an Act as above prayed ;
and forasmuch as the Prayer of the Petitioners aforesaid, is thought
reasonable by the present General Assembly to be granted as prayed,
Be it therefore Enacted, by the Right Honourable the Lord Pro-
prietor, by and with the Advice and Consent of His Lordship's Gov-
ernour, and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the
Authority of the same, That from and after the First Day of De-
cember next ensuing, all the remaining Part heretofore called Elk-
Ridge Hundred, which was not annexed to Westminster Parish, be-
ing now Part of St. Paul's Parish aforesaid, and all that Part of
All-Hallow's Parish bounded by a Line drawn from the Mouth of
Rogues Harbour Branch, on Patuxent River, to the North Branch,
or Snowden's River, on the Southward of Thomas Jones's Planta-
tion; Also all that Part of St. Anne's Parish bounded by a Line
drawn from the Mouth of a small Branch running into Patuxent
River, and lying between the Plantations of John Ryon and Rose
Lee, and running by a streight Line through the Woods, till it inter-
sects the former Divisional Line between Anne-Arundel and Balte-

Chap. XV
p. 25