FOR the better ordering and regulating the Inhabitants of Annapolis,
as
well in seating and building the same, as otherwise:
II. Be it Enacted,
by the King's most excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice
and Consent of this present General Assembly, and the Authority
of the same, That
the several Persons in this Act mentioned, and their Successors, shall,
and are
hereby impowered and authorised to be Commissioners and Trustees, for
the
well ordering, and regulating and propagating the said Port of Annapolis,
as
well to the Building and Inhabiting the same, as to the peaceable and
quiet
Living and Residing therein; as also restrain and prevent all Disorders
and Disturbances,
and also all Inconveniences and Annoyances, with the Town and
Port aforesaid, by any Trades, or Employments, or Callings, that may
cause
Annoyance or Inconveniency to the Inhabitants, That is to say, viz.
His Excellency
Francis Nicholson, Esq; the Honourable Sir Thomas Lawrence,
the
Honourable Nicholas Greenberry, Esq; the Honourable Thomas
Tench,
Esq;
Major John Hammond, Major Edward Dorsey, Mr. James
Saunders, and Capt.
Richard Hill, or any Five of them, who are by this Act constituted,
authorized
and incorporated into a Body-Corporate, in Deed and in Name, by the
Name of the Commissioners and Trustees for the Port and Town of Annapolis,
to sue and be sued, to answer unto and be answered, in any Court of
Record within this Province, touching or concerning any Lands, Tenements
or Hereditaments, Goods, Chattels, Debts, Dues or Demands, accruing
or
being the Right or growing due to or from the said Commissioners and
Trustees
of the said Port and Town of Annapolis, and Appurtenances in
Right of
the said Town and Port, and not otherwise. To which End, they
are hereby
impowered and required to meet together, within the said Port and Town,
at such convenient Place and Time, as to them shall seem meet and convenient.
III. And
to perpetuate the Succession of such Commissioners and Trustees,
Be it Enacted by the Authority
aforesaid, by and with the Advice and Consent |
Commissioners
appointed,
and incorporated,
by perpetual
Succession.
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