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16 FREDERICK Lord BALTIMORE.
CHAP. XVII.
A Supplementary ACT to the act, entitled, An act to prevent the mischiefs
arising
from the multiplicity of useless dogs, and other purposes
therein mentioned.
Expired with the principal act. |
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CHAP. XVIII.
An ACT empowering the justices of Frederick county, to levy on the
taxable inhabitants
of said county, a quantity of tobacco, for building
a stone wall around
the public prison in said county, and for other purposes
therein mentioned.
The quantity of 30,000lb. is to be
assessed at November adjourned court. And, in March or June
following, the justices are to contract for the building of the said wall,
and a house at the gate thereof, to
accommodate the gaoler. |
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CHAP. XIX.
A Supplementary ACT to the act, entitled, An act for amending the staple
of tobacco,
for preventing frauds in his majesty's customs, and
for the limitation of
officers fees.
Expired with its principal act. |
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CHAP. XX.
An ACT for the relief of certain languishing prisoners in the several
gaols therein
mentioned.
Viz. Jonathan Hollings, William
Lancaster, William Cunning, William Gudgeon, Samuel Roberts,
William Douglass, John McCay, William Murdo, and Moses Frampton, of Cæcil
county; Lambert
Wilson, Daniel Norris, James Thompson, James Jackson, Thomas Knock, Murten
Melland, Edward
McCann, and William Lovegrove, of Kent county; James Barron, of Talbot
county; Anthony Denlevey,
James Clarkson, David Clark, Clement Woodward, John Messick, McKiel Howell,
Samuel Alcock,
and Isaac Cullin, of Dorchester county; William Gullet, Edward Fitzgeral,
Eleanor Barklett, Andrew
Hemphill, William Miles, and Aaron Speer, of Somerset
county; David Murry, Gideon Jones, Charles
Collins, John Onions, Joshua Rogers, and Robert Pitts, of Worcester county;
Thomas Goldsmith,
George Bealle, William Askew, Mary Hicks, Joseph Lowman, George Cowin,
and Samuel Creswell, of
Baltimore county; Thomas Mobberley, junior, Henry Warman, John Adams, and
John Seclew, of
Anne-Arundel county; Richard Clark, Richard Scott, Robert Lamar, John Davis,
Erasmus Bekias,
and Adam Wychall, of Frederick county; Solomon Hardy, and William Denune,
of Prince-George's
county; John Fulford, Ignatius Green, Thomas Roberts, and James Alexander,
of Charles county;
John Journey, of Calvert county; and James Smith, of St. Mary's county. |
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CHAP. XXI.
An ACT to aid defective common recoveries. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS many valuable lands are held by the present
possessors, under
common recoveries suffered by tenants in tail, and, in many instances
those recoveries, although now grown common conveyances in this
province, have been so inartificially and defectively drawn, suffered and
executed,
that the same are not aided by the beneficial and useful provisions of
the late statute,
entitled, An act to amend the law concerning common recoveries, and to
explain
and amend an act made in the twenty-ninth year of the reign of king Charles
the second, entitled, An act for prevention of frauds and perjuries, so
far as the
same relates to estates, per auter vire. To remedy therefore
such defective recoveries,
and secure the titles and quiet the possessions of those who do and may
hold
under them; |
All common
recoveries
heretofore
suffered, to
be good in
law.
Proviso. |
II. Be it enacted,
by the right honourable the lord proprietary, 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 common recoveries heretofore
suffered
in the provincial court of this province, by consent and agreement of the
parties
thereto, shall be good and available in law to all intents and purposes
whatsoever,
to dock and cut off any estate tail in any of the parties thereto, and
bar the issue
in tail, who can, could, or might claim, as heir of the body or bodies
of any of
the parties thereto, and also to bar those in reversion or remainder, who
can, could,
or might claim in default of issue of the body or bodies of any of the
parties to
such recoveries, in the same manner as if such recoveries had been legally
and formally
suffered and executed, notwithstanding the tenant to the writ in any such
recovery was not tenant of the freehold at the time of judgment rendered,
or any
other defect in drawing, suffering or executing, any of the said recoveries:
Provided, |
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