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6 CHARLES Lord BALTIMORE.
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CHAP.
XXIV.
General Issue
pleadable. |
III. And be it further Enacted,
as aforesaid, That it shall and may be lawful
for the Defendant or Defendants in such Suits to give this Act and the
Special Matter in Evidence, without Specially Pleading the same; any Law,
Statute, Usage or Custom to the contrary notwithstanding.
Examined and Compared with the Original Act, REVERDY GHISELIN,
THOMAS BACON.
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CHAP. XXV.
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Passed 27th
October 1720. |
An ACT declaring the Punishment for Burning of Court-houses.
Lib. LL. Nº 4. fol. 505.
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Preamble.
Persons convict
of wilfully
burning
Court-houses
shall suffer
Death without
Benefit of
Clergy. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this present General Assembly, That
there remained some Doubt in the Law, whether the Burners of
Court-houses should have the same Judgment as against Clerks
convicts, or to suffer Death; on which Doubt, the last provincial Court,
in
Favour of Life, gave Judgment against the Person convict for Burning Kent
County Court-house, only that he should be burnt in the Hand, &c.
To clear
up which Doubt for the future,
II. 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 any Person
or Persons
whatsoever, that shall hereafter be convict of wilfully Burning any
Court-house
within this Province, wherein any Records actually or usually are kept,
although the same be not a Mansion-house, or such other House, for the
Burning whereof the Offenders might heretofore have had the Benefit of
Clergy, shall have Judgment to suffer Death, in the same Manner as if such
Offender had been convict of maliciously and wilfully Burning a Mansion-house;
any Law, Statute or Usage to the contrary notwithstanding.
Examined and Compared with the Original Act, REVERDY GHISELIN,
THOMAS BACON.
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CHAP. XXVI.
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Passed 27th
October 1720.
* 1715, ch. 36. |
A Supplementary ACT to the Act, entitled, * An Act for laying
an Imposition on Negroes, and on several Sorts of Liquors
and also on Irish Servants, to prevent the Importing
too great a Number of Irish Papists into this
Province. Lib.
LL. Nº 4. fol. 506.
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Preamble.
Resident Owners
of any
Ship or Vessel,
shall
make Oath
before the
Naval Officer. |
WHEREAS there is a certain Clause in the said recited Act, encouraging
Residents of this Province to build and purchase Ships
and Vessels, thereby acquitting them from the Payment of several
Duties on Negroes, Rum, &c. and it being represented to this General
Assembly,
That sundry Abuses have been committed by several Person, Residents
of this Province, by purchasing Vessels, and obtaining Registers, suggesting
themselves to be sole Owners, when perhaps they have suddenly disposed
of great Part of their Interest in the said Vessels to Persons not residing
here, and have still had the Benefit of the said Clause, as if all the
Owners
had actually resided here, after such Sale, to the defrauding of the
Public:
For prevention of which Abuses for the future, it is prayed that it may
be
Enacted,
II. And 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 the Owner or
Owners
of every Ship or Vessel residing in this Province, shall be obliged, either
at
the Time of Entry of such Ship or Vessel, or some Time before her Clearance,
to apply him or themselves to the Naval Officer of the District where
such Ship or Vessel shall load or unload, which Officer aforesaid is hereby |
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