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JOHN HART, Esq; Governor.
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1718. |
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CHAP. IX.
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An Act to confirm to Mary Hall, of Talbot County,
Widow, a Tract of Land
called Glade's Addition, in Talbot
County.
Lib. LL. N° 4. fol. 392. PR. |
Passed 10th
May 1718. |
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CHAP. X.
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An Act to limit the Continuance of Actions in several Courts within
this Province,
and ascertaining the Manner of taking the Evidence
of Seafaring Men, and
for granting Appeals from the Chancery Court
to the Governor and Council.
Lib. LL. N° 4. fol. 394.
REP. by 1721, ch. 14. |
Ditto. |
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A Supplementary Act 1720, ch. 20; which was
repealed by the same Act.
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CHAP. XI.
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An Act for supplying Defects in the Conveyance of Land from John
Carey, John
Burridge, and George Cole, to Peregrine
Brown, Merchant, deceased. Lib.
LL. N° 4. fol. 395. PR. |
Ditto. |
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CHAP. XII.
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An Act to enable Benjamin Howard to sell certain Lands in
Ann-Arundel
County;
and for the entailing other Lands belonging to
the said Benjamin, in Baltimore
County. Lib. LL. N° 4. fol.
397. PR. |
Ditto. |
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CHAP. XIII.
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An ACt for the removing the Court-house from Charles-Town
in Prince-George's
County; and for the building a Court-house for
the said County at the Town of
Marlborough in the said County; and for
making Sale of the old Court-house
and Prison. Lib. LL. N° 4. fol.
399. |
Ditto. |
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CHAP. XIV.
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An Act for confirming the Last Will and Testament of Elizabeth
Devegh, late of
Baltimore County, deceased; and for vesting
in
John Devegh, his Heirs and
Assigns for ever, an Estate in Fee-simple, in
all and singular the Lands, Tenements
and Hereditaments, whereof the said Elizabeth
Devegh died seized a aforesaid.
Lib. LL. N° 4. fol. 401.
PR. |
Ditto. |
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CHAP. XV.
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An Act for investing the right Heirs of Edward Day, late
of Somerset County,
with an Estate in Fee-simple of certain Lands
in the said County. Lib. LL.
N° 4. fol. 403. PR. |
Ditto. |
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CHAP. XVI.
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An Act for the better supporting the Magistrates in the Administration
of Justice
within this Province; and for the disabling Thomas
Macnemara, Esq; to
practice the Law therein. Lib. LL. N°
4. fol. 404. OBS. |
Ditto. |
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A new Law made 1719, ch. 4.
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CHAP. XVII.
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An Act for the Relief of Robert High, Bricklayer, a languishing
Prisoner in
Calvert County; and of Philip Eilbeck,
in
Kent County. Lib. LL. N° 4.
fol. 407. PR. |
Ditto. |
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CHAP. XVIII.
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An Act for ascertaining the Bounds of Land within this Province.
Lib. LL. N°
4. fol. 410. DISSENT.
By this Act the Acts of 1715, ch.
45, and 1717, ch. 9, are Repealed, both which would otherwise
have expired on the 1st June 1719. For the Dissent see his
Lordship's Speech to both
Houses communicated by the Governor on the 19th July 1721.
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Ditto. |
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CHAP. XIX.
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An ACT for settling all Disputes concerning the Boundaries of the
several Lots within the City of Annapolis,
and confirming the
same to the respective Takers-up, Improvers and Purchasers
thereof; and for laying out Ten Acres of Land out of
the
Town Pasture, into Twenty Lots more, to be added to
the
said City. Lib. LL. N° 4. fol.
417.
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Ditto. |
WHEREAS the original Plat of Survey of the Town of Annapolis,
now erected into a City, has been destroyed by the Fire of the
Stadt-house; in the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred and Four, |
Preamble. |
