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CHAP.
XXII.
Money received
how
to be applied. |
16 FREDERICK Lord BALTIMORE.
part of them without any assignment thereof, and so much only of such
penalty
shall and may be recovered thereupon, as such ground not covered and made
into
dry ground as aforesaid, shall amount to, at the said rate of twenty pounds
sterling per
acre; and the said money, so recovered, shall be paid to, and received
and applied
by the commissioners aforesaid, or the major part of them, to and for the
use of
the said town, for, and in building convenient wharfs, or to the removing
the said
nuisance, if there should be no purchasers, or to the removing the said
nuisance as
to any part of the said marsh purchased, when the terms of such purchase
shall
not be complied with, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. |
Purchasers,
complying
with the
terms, to
have a good
estate therein. |
XIV. And be
it further enacted, That any person or persons that shall build
or
improve, on any of the said lots to be laid out in virtue of this act,
as by former
laws relating to the said town is directed, and purchase the same from
the said proprietor
or proprietors thereof, by consent and agreement between the purchaser
and
such proprietor, or in the manner before mentioned, of, and from the said
commissioners,
such lot or lots, being wharfed in, secured, covered, and made into dry
ground as aforesaid, shall have an absolute estate of inheritance, in and
to such lot
or lots. |
In case of
bad titles. |
XV. Provided
always, and be it enacted, That if the persons herein before
mentioned to be the proprietors of the said marshy ground, or any, or either
of
them, should not be the true and real proprietors, and have fee-simple
titles in the
said marsh ground respectively as aforesaid, that then, in lieu and stead
of any recovery
of the said marshy ground, or any part thereof, so covered and made into
dry and firm ground, and built and improved on as aforesaid, the person
or persons
who have title thereto, or their heirs, shall and may maintain an act of
debt, or
on the case, against the said person or persons who shall have received
any of the
purchase money aforesaid, not having title as aforesaid, the heirs, devisees,
executors,
or administrators, having assets, and thereby recover the full and real
value of
the ground in its perfect situation, so to be covered and made into dry
and firm
ground, and built and improved on as aforesaid, with the costs of such
suit. |
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CHAP. XXIII.
An ACT concerning the name of John Beale Bordley. PR. |
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CHAP. XXIV.
An ACT for amending and repairing the public roads
in Baltimore county.
This act was to continue until the
last day of October, 1770; at that time it expired, but it was revived
by the act of 1771, ch. 14, for one year. It was afterwards continued
for two years, &c. by the act
of June, 1773, ch. 3, and for three years, &c. by the act of February,
1777, ch. 17, and for one year, &c.
by the act of March, 1780, ch. 21; at length it expired with May session,
1781. |
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CHAP. XXV.
An ACT to oblige infected
ships, and other vessels, coming into
this province, to perform quarantine. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS great mischiefs have arisen from the landing
of goods and
passengers from ships and other vessels coming into this province with
servants and German passengers, by communicating to, and spreading
amongst the inhabitants, dangerous infectious distempers, begun at first
by numbers
of people being closely confined together for long times in a small space: |
Masters of
vessels to be
sworn, that
they have no
infectious
distemper on
board.
The oath. |
II. Be it therefore
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 no ship or vessel
whatsoever, coming
into this province after the first day of May next, and in which ship or
vessel
there shall be imported more than thirty servants or passengers, shall
be admitted
to make her entry, or land or put on shore any goods, passenger, or servant,
before
the master, together with two other credible persons, shall make oath before
the
collector, or naval officer, with whom such ship or vessel shall first
enter, " That
" neither the small-pox, jail fever, yellow-fever, flux, or any such dangerous
infectious
" distemper, is, or hath been on board such ship or vessel, on her passage,
" to the knowledge or belief of such captain, or other persons taking such
oath |
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