None subject to it, except the army, navy, and the
militia when in actual service.  Decl. 29.

                            LEGISLATURE.

    The places of its meeting ought to be fixed.  Decl. 9.
    To be frequently convened.  Decl. 10.
    Freedom of speech therein preserved.  Decl. 8.
    May be petitioned by any person.  Dec. 11.
    Has the sole power of imposing taxes.  Decl. 12.
    Consists of two branches.  Const. 1.
    The time of its annual meeting.  Const. 23.
    The time and place of its first meeting prescribed.
Const. 61.
    To appoint all officers of the government at that
meeting.  Ibid.
    Its members compellable by a temporary provision to
attend their duty.  March, 1780, ch. 4.

            LEONARD-TOWN.  St. Mary's county.

    Swine and geese, not to be raised.  November, 1782,
ch. 4.

                                LIGHT-HOUSE.

    Directed to be built on Cape Henry by a law which
the revolution hath rendered a dead letter.  November,
1773, ch. 29.

                    LIMITATION of ACTIONS.

    Defendant shall not avail himself of his own absence
at the time of the action accruing.  November, 1765,
ch. 12.
    From July 26, 1775, to July 1, 1777, the time is
not to be reckoned so as to give operation to any act of
limitation against any action whatsoever.  February,
1777, ch. 15, sec. 7.
    Nor the time from the latter period until the passage of
this act, so as to bar any debt.  October, 1780, ch. 5,
sec. 14.
    Where one of the parties in a cause referred dies before
award, or an arbitrator dies or refuses to act, or the
award be set aside, the time from commencing the action,
until such death, refusal, or setting aside, shall not be
reckoned.  June, 1778, ch. 21, sec. 10.

                        LITERARY PROPERTY.

Secured by an act to take place conditionally.  April,
1783, ch. 34.

                          LOANS, PRIVATE.

    Private persons may mortgage to aliens for money lent.
1784, ch. 58.

                           LOANS, PUBLIC.

    Loans in paper money, tobacco and specie, on which
certificates issued.  June, 1780, ch. 2.
    Loans directed to be procured on confiscated property.
October, 1780, ch. 51.

        LOWER-MARLBOROUGH ACADEMY.

    Instituted.  October, 1778, ch. 16.

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                              MAGAZINES.

    PROTECTED by a law making it a capital crime to
destroy them.  October, 1777, ch. 1.

                              MARRIAGES.

    Regulated and restrained.  February, 1777, ch. 12.

                                  MILITIA.

    The proper defence of the state.  Decl. 25.

                                   MILLS.

    Part of the act of 1704, ch. 16, respecting water-mills,
repealed.  November, 1766, ch. 10.

    Nonjurors of that sect permitted to preach the gospel.
November, 1782, ch. 13.

                              MISDEMEANORS.

    Punishable by house of delegates.  Const. 10.
    An act for the punishment of crimes and misdemeanors.
February, 1777, ch. 20.

                                        MONEY.

    Current money regulated.  November, 1781, ch. 16.

                                    MONOPOLY.

    Not to be permitted.  Dec. 39.

                        MONTGOMERY COUNTY.

    Created by the division of Frederick county into three
parts.  See the resolve of the convention for that purpose.
September 6, 1776.
    Provisions for collecting the levy.  June, 1777, ch. 2.
    Court directed to levy money to defray the expence of 
dividing Frederick county.  November 1779, ch. 19.
    Court adjourned.  October, 1780, ch. 2.
    Money to be raised for building a court-house and a
prison.  1784, ch. 17.

                                    MORTGAGES.

    To secure money lent by foreigners.  1784, ch. 58.

                                      MUSTERS.

    The act of 1748, ch. 1, continued for seven years by
the act of October, 1780, ch. 12.  November, 1765,
ch. 24.

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                                    NANTICOKE.

    A COMPENSATION granted to the Indians for
their Nanticoke lands.  1768, ch. 7.

                              NATURALIZATION.

    An act in favour of foreign protestants becoming naturalized.
1771, ch. 1.
    A general provision.  July, 1779, ch. 6.

                                NAVAL OFFICES.

    Registers to be granted.  October, 1780, ch. 28.
    A supplement to that act.  April, 1782, ch. 12.
    Registers changed.  April, 1783, ch. 1.
    Tunnage to be ascertained.  November, 1783, ch. 25.
    A duty laid on British bottoms.  November, 1783,
ch. 29.
    Commerce regulated.  November, 1783, ch. 36.
    Commerce regulated, naval officers directed, and the
conduct of masters and mariners regulated.  1784,
ch. 79.
                                    NAVIGATION.

    Our delegates in congress empowered to agree to a
navigation act.  November, 1782, ch. 29, sec. 5.
    The conduct of masters and mariners regulated.  1784,
ch. 79.
    Ship-building encouraged.  1784, ch. 84, sec. 16, 17.

                            NEGROES and SLAVES.

    Charges of prosecuting them to be defrayed by the respective
counties.  May, 1766, ch. 6.
    The act of 1735, ch. 6, respecting a duty on the
importation of negroes, and the act of 1751, ch. 14, for
their more effectual punishment, and for preventing their
tumultuous meetings and other irregularities, are both
continued for twenty-one years by the act of June, 1773,
ch. 2.  November, 1765, ch. 17, 18.
    The bringing of slaves into the state restrained, and
manumitted slaves declared not to be entitled to suffrage
at elections.  April, 1783, ch. 23.

                                        NICOLITES.

    Privileged from oaths.  November, 1783, ch. 18.

                                         NOBILITY.

    No title to be allowed in this state.  Decl. 40.