500 Assembly Proceedings, May 1-June 4, 1744.

U. H. J.

14. An Act appointing Commissioners for dividing Saint Marys
County into four Parishes, and to erect that part of All Faith and
King and Queen Parish lying in Charles County into a distinct
Parish
15. An Act for Building a Prison in Worcester County.
16. An Act to enable Samuel Wilson Executor of Margaret
Lindow to Convey certain Lands to David Wilson

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17. An Act continuing an Act of Assembly of this Province
entituled an Act for the more effectual Punishment of certain Of-
fenders and for taking from them the Benefit of Clergy
18. An Act continuing an Act of Assembly of this Province Enti-
tuled an Act for the more effectual Punishment of Negroes and
other slaves, and for taking away the Benefit of Clergy from certain
Offenders and to an Act entituled an Act to prevent the tumultuous
Meetings and other Irregularities of Negroes and other Slaves and
directing the manner of trying Slaves
19. An Act reviving an Act of Assembly entituled an Act for
the Benefit of the Poor and Encouragement of Industry
20. An Act for Punishment of Horse Stealers and other Of-
fenders
21. An Act to enable the Rector Vestrymen and Church War-
dens of Saint James's Parish in Anne Arundel County to Lease
Lands belonging to Saint James's Church in the manner and to the
uses therein mentioned
22. A supplementary Act to the Act entituled an Act for laying
out and erecting a Town at a Place called Long Point on the West
side of North East River in Cecil County
23. An Act to enable certain Commissioners therein named to
lay out forty Acres of Land into Eighty Lots for a Town on Indian
River, in Worcester County, as also forty Acres of Land into Eighty
Lots, at the Head of Asseateague Creek at a Place called the Trap,
for a Town
24. An Act for dividing Allhallows Parish in Worcester County
and for erecting a Parish out of the same by the Name of Worcester
Parish
25. An Act for laying out the Town anew commonly called
Upper Marlborough Town in Prince Georges County
26. An Act empowering the Vestry men and Church Wardens
of King Georges Parish in Prince Georges County to purchase three
Acres of Land in the said Parish to build a Chappell of Ease on, and
to empower the Justices of Prince Georges County to levy on the
Taxable Inhabitants of the said Parish in the said County the sum
of 8oo£ Current Money for the uses therein mentioned
27. An Act impowering Mary Stokes Widow and Executrix of
Humphry Wells Stokes late of Baltimore County Gent deceased to