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CHARLES CALVERT, Esq; Governor.
1725.
the Mayor's Court Office.  (2.)  Such Purchasers, their Heirs and Assigns, shall hold an absolute
Estate in Fee-simple in such Lots:  And by virtue of such Purchase, and building a Dwelling-house
with 400 Foot of Flooring, besides Garrets or Roofs, shall, for every Quarter of
an Acre so improved, enjoy all the Privileges of Freeholders, or Inhabitants of the said City.
(3.)  The present Owners may sell unto any Purchasers, to hold of them under the like Rents,
&c. as the said Owners hold the same under his Lordship, as in Cases of Lord Mesne and Tenant
in England, in case they make their Deeds accordingly.  (4.)  Provided that convenient
Streets and Alleys be duly regarded.  (5.)  A Saving of Rights to his Lordship, all Bodies Politic
and Corporate, and all others not herein mentioned.
CHAP.
   VII.
CHAP. VIII.
An ACT declaring Probates of Deeds, or other Matters, and Acknowledgment
    of Deeds taken before Two Magistrates of the
    City of Annapolis, to be good and valid in Law, Lib. L. Nº 5. 
    fol. 50.
Passed 6th
Nov. 1725.
BE it Enacted, by  the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietor, by and with
the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's Governor, and the Upper and
Lower Houses of Assembly, and the Authority of the same, That all Probates
of any Deeds, or other Matters, made either in the Mayor's Court, or
before two of the Magistrates of the City of Annapolis, and all Deeds of
Lands lying within the Precincts of the City of Annapolis, acknowledged either
in the Mayor's Court, of before two such Magistrates as aforesaid; shall
be, and are by this Act declared as good and available in Law in all respects, as
if made and acknowledged in the same Manner before any One Justice of the
Provincial Court, or Two Justices of a County Court; any Law, Statute,
usage or Custom to the contrary notwithstanding.
                                    Examined and Compared with the Original Act. REVERDY GHISELIN,
                                                                                                                            THOMAS BACON.
Probates of
Deeds, &c.
in the Mayor's
Court, or
before Two
City Magistrates,
to be
good in Law.
CHAP. IX.
An Act to invest the Vestry of Great Choptank Parish, in Dorchester County,
    with an Estate in Fee-simple to the b Lands therein mentioned.  Lib. L. N º 5.
    fol. 50.
    Viz. Two Acres of Land, Parcel of 15 Acres laid our for Public Uses at the Town of Vienna
in the said County, whereon the Chapel is built.  See 1730, ch. 2, by which the Bounds
of the said Two Acres are established.
Passed 6th
Nov. 1725.
CHAP. X.
An Act for dividing Great Choptank Parish, in Dorchester County, and for
    erecting a Parish out of the same, called by the Name of St. Mary-White-Chapel
    Parish.  Lib. L. Nº 5. fol. 51.
    (1.)  From and after the 10th December 1725, all that Part of Great Choptank Parish, beginning
at the Mouth of Cabbin-Creek, on the South Side of Great Choptank River, and running up the
said Creek, bounded therewith to the Mill; and from thence running across to the North West
Fork of Nanticoke, as the Line runs which divides Great Choptank Hundred from Nanticoke Hundred;
and so binding all round with the said Great Choptank Hundred to the Mouth of the said
Cabbin-Creek; is by this Act separated, constituted, erected and made into a Parish, by the Name
of St. Mary-White-Chapel Parish, divided as aforesaid from Great Choptank parish; and to be adjudged,
deemed and taken, as a separate and distinct Parish.  (2.)  The Freeholders thereof impowered 
to elect Vestry-men, and found a Church, and enjoy all Privileges and Advantages whatsoever,
that are held and enjoyed by any other parish within this Province.
Ditto.
CHAP. XI.
 An Act for removing the Court-house from Battle-Creek in Calvert County,
    and for building a Court-house for the said County, on or near, that Place in
    the said County, commonly called and known by the Name of William's Old
    Field; and for making Sale of the old Court-house and Prison.  Lib. L. Nº 5
    fol. 52.
    By this Act  (1.)  The justices of Calvert County were impowered to make choice of, and
purchase, (by Agreement, or Valuation of a Jury) Three Acres of Land on or near the Place
aforesaid, whereon to build a Court-house.  (2.)  The said Justices to cause the said Three Acres
to be laid our by the County Surveyor, and a Certificate thereof to be returned and recorded in
the County Records, &c.  (3.)  Calvert County Court to be held in such new Court-house when
built, and not elsewhere.  (4.)  All the Records, Books, Rolls, Papers, &c. to the said
County belonging, to be removed from the old to the new Court-house, and a List thereof to
be signed by the County Clerk, and recorded amongst their Proceedings.  (5.)  The said Justices
impowered to make Sale of the old Court-house and Prison, with the Lands thereunto belonging,
and convey the same in Fee-simple, &c.
Ditto.


 
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