Acts. 473

and his Successors Provided always That it shall and may be lawfull
for the Provincial Court to committ any Prisoners for Debt or for
any other Cause whatsoever to the Custody of the said Sheriff of
Ann Arundell County to be by him in the said Prison Detained ac-
cording to such Committment or to be remanded to any other Prison
as the Law or Nature of the case may require.
Provided always That this Act, or any herein Contained shall not
be Construed to give the said Provincial Court any Power or Juris-
diction Contrary to the true intent and meaning of An Act Entituled,
an Act for taking Special Bail in the severall Counties of this Prov-
ince upon Actions or Suites depending in his Majestys Provincial
Court and in the several County Courts of this Province against
which Sheriff or Sheriffs Actions or Prosecutions for the escape of
such Prisoners may be brought or Commenced as in any other
Case of Commitment and Escape according to Law.
And be it further Enacted That besides the Sum of five hundred
Pounds Current Money already appointed to be Expended for
Building a Prison for Ann Arundell County in and by the Act En-
titled, An Act for Emitting and making Current Ninety Thousand
Pounds Current Money of Maryland in Bills of Creditt a further
Sum not exceeding One thousand Pounds Current money shall be
laid out to purchase Convenient Ground as aforesaid and to build a
Goal thereon which Sum of One thousand Pounds or so much
thereof as shall be necessary for the Purposes aforesaid shall be paid
by the Commissioners or Trustees for Emitting the Bills of Credit
and their Successors and as well the said Sum of five hundred Pounds
as the said further Sum of one thousand Pounds shall be paid to the
Orders of the Commissioners aforesaid or the Majority of them.

Lib. B. L. C

An Act relateing to the Planeing and Building a Prison in
Somerset County.
Whereas by an Act of Assembly Entituled an Act for Emitting
and making Current Ninety Thousand Pounds Current money of
Maryland in Bills of Credit amongst other things it was Enacted that
five hundred Pounds shall be laid out in Each respective County
within this Province for Building Goals near and Convenient to the
severall Court houses And Whereas it is made appear to this Generall
Assembly that Princess Ann Town in Somerset County will be a
much more Convenient Place for a Goal in the said County than at
the Present Court house of the said County Be it Enacted by the
Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary by and with the Advice
and Consent of his Lordships Governour and the Upper and Lower
houses of Assembly and the Authority of the same that the Goal
to be erected or built in Somerset County shall be erected or built
at Princes Ann Town in the said County as the Members of the
Lower house of Assembly for that County for the time being or the

Chap. VII
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