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CHAP.
V.
Deemed a
public act. |
18 FREDERICK Lord BALTIMORE.
V. And be it
also enacted, That this act shall be deemed a public act, and the
same shall and may be given in evidence, in justification of or for any
matter or
thing done by virtue thereof, on the general issue, without specially pleading
the
same. |
| Proviso. |
VI. Provided
always, That this act, or any thing therein contained, shall not
hinder, or be construed to hinder or prevent, the erecting, or causing
to be erected,
any bridge or bridges over the said river Monocacy, with convenient
arches for
admitting of boats and other vessels of burthen pulling through the same,
with
the least obstruction that may be. |
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CHAP. VI.
An ACT appointing new visitors for the public school in Frederick county,
and
for other purposes therein mentioned.
This act appoints seven new visitors,
viz. Jonathan Wilson, Thomas Bowles, George Murdock, Major
Joseph Wood, Thomas Price, Caspar Shaaff, and Charles Beatty. These
visitors are empowered to
purchase half an acre of ground in Frederick-town, and thereon to build
a school-house; and the treasurers
of the province are directed to pay them a dividend of county school duties,
hereafter to be collected,
or which may have been collected since September 29, 1763. |
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CHAP. VII.
An ACT for granting to the
Nanticoke Indians a compensation
for the lands therein mentioned. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS the greatest part of the tribe of the Nanticoke
Indians,
have some years ago, left and deserted the lands in this province, appropriated
by former acts of assembly for their use, so long as they
should occupy the same; and the few that remain have, by their petition
to this
general assembly, prayed that they might have liberty to dispose of their
right to
the said lands, or that some compensation should be made them for quitting
claim thereto, as they are desirous of totally leaving this province, and
going to
live with their brethren, who have incorporated themselves with the Six
Nations;
and that they have given a power of attorney to a certain Amos Ogden, to
dispose
of the said lands for them, and to execute a release and acquittance therefor,
which
power appears to be confirmed and approved by Sir William Johnson, his
majesty's superintendant of Indian affairs for the northern department.
And
whereas Robert Darnall and Sarah his wife, Henry Steele and Anne his wife,
and
John Henry and Dorothy his wife, (which said Sarah, Anne, and Dorothy,
are the
co-heiresses of col. John Rider, deceased) have, by their petition, set
forth to this
general assembly, That one tract of land, called The Reserve, originally,
on the
fifteenth day of May, one thousand six hundred and sixty-five, granted
to a certain
John Anderton, for eight hundred acres; another tract called Handsell,
on the
thirteenth day of July in the same year, granted to a certain Thomas Taylor,
for
seven hundred acres; and one other tract called Bartholemew's Close, on
the
tenth day of November, one thousand six hundred and ninety-five, granted
to a
certain Thomas Hicks, for one hundred and sixty-four acres, lie within
the boundaries
of a large tract of land laid out for the said Indians, by virtue of an
act of
assembly, made in the year of our lord one thousand seven hundred and four,
entitled,
An act for ascertaining the bounds of a certain tract of land, to the use
of
the Nanticoke Indians, so long as they shall occupy and live on the same,
and
that the said three small tracts of land, became, by purchase and devise,
the right
od the said col. John Rider, and the reversion thereof is now in the said
petitioners;
and prayed, as the said lands had been heretofore taken from their ancestors
for the public account, that the public money might be now applied to purchase
a release of the Indians claim to the same for their use, which this general
assembly have thought reasonable to grant. And whereas the said Amos
Ogden
hath, in behalf of the said Indians, offered to take the sum of six hundred
and
sixty-six dollars and two thirds of a dollar, for a release of right, and
full acquittal
of claim of the said Nanticoke Indians, as well to the aforesaid three
tracts of
land, as to three thousand acres lying on Broad creek, in Somerset county,
by an
act made in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and eleven, entitled,
An act
to empower commissioners to appoint and cause to be laid out, three thousand
acres of land on Broad creek, in Somerset county, for the use of the Nanticoke |
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