4 Assembly Proceedings, 1694-1728.

Public
Record
Office,
London.
C. O 5,
Vol. 731,
Maryland,
From
1694-1702
Acts

to Lymitt or debar his Ex^ncy the Govern^t for the tyme being from
levying or raiseing any greater Force without the advice or Consent
of the Freemen on any Emergent Occasion when & as often as he
shall see just Cause and the Sallary payable to such forces so extraor-
dinaryly raised as aforesaid to levy as aforesaid, alwayes Provided
the same do not exceed the Sume of Sixty Thousand pounds of To-
baccoe by the year, any thing herein conteyned to the contrary not-
withstanding And be it Enacted by the authority aforesaid that all
persons that shall hereafter be pressed by any person or persons what-
soever being thereunto lawfully authorized upon any Publique Service
whatsoever or that have any accompts to put into the publique for
the future, they prove their accompts before the Justices of the County
Courts where they do dwell & reside and do send them downe by one
of the delegates of the said County that then the said accompts shall
be received and taken as sufficiently prooved and shall be allowed
and paid to them out of the Publique.

Acts of 1694,
ch. 15

An Act confirming the Acts of the last Sessions of Assembly of this
Province now remaining upon Record in the Secretaryes Office to
be the Body of Laws untill the same shall arrive from England.

Whereas the Body of Laws or Acts of Assembly of this Province
made the last Sessions of Assembly held at the City of St. Maryes the
Tenth day of May Anno one Thousand six hundred and ninety two
was by some casuall mistake sent into England instead of an authen-
tick copy thereof :
Be it therefore Enacted by the King and Queens most Excellent
Ma^tyes by and with the advice and consent of this present Gen^rall
assembly and the authority of the same that the transcript of the
same Laws now remaining upon Record in the Secretaryes Office in
this Province shall be reputed deemed and taken to be the aforesaid
Body of Laws so made for this Province as aforesaid untill the
arrivall of the same from England.

Acts of 1694,
ch. 16

An Act for Reviveing the Temporary Laws of this Province.

Be it Enacted by the King & Queens most Excellent Ma^tys by and
with the advice and Consent of this present Gen^rall Assembly and the
authority of the same that one Act of Assembly of this Province made
att a Gen^rall Assembly begun and held at the City of St. Maryes the
Tenth day of May in the yeare of our Lord one Thousand six hun-
dred ninety and two Entituled an Act Prohibiting Trade with the
Indians for any Flesh dead or alive except deer and Wildfowle, one
other Act made the same Assembly Entituled An Act for the more
speedy bringing to Tryall and Suppressing Criminals and Lymitting
the punishment of them for certain Offences when prosecuted in the
County Courts, One other Act made the same Assembly Entituled
an Act concerning Negroes and Slaves, One other Act made the same