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handle is hein.ssl/ssde0208 and id is 1 raw text is: C H A P. A Supplement to an ad, intituled, An a&c for regulating I770- fences within this government. W HEREAS the a&, intituled, An as for regu- amble. lating fences within this government, paffed in the thirteenth year of the reign of his late Majcfty George the Second, (a) hath made no provifion for inaking ditches, hedges or ftone walls, inclofing lands, lawful fences; For remedying whereof, and for the encouraging of fuch fpecies of inclofures, SECTION i. BE it enaded by the honorable John Penn, efq. with his AlajeJfy's royal approbation, Lieutenant Governor and Commander in Chief of the counties of New-Cafle, Kent and Suffl'x, upon Delaware, and pro- vince of Pennjylvania, by and with the advice and confent of the Reprefentatives of the freemen of the faid counties, in General Agjembly met, and by the au- thority of the fame, That all ditches or drains hav- w'hat ian be , . deemned a lawful ing a poft and rail fence, or a worm fence well.f1ak- fencc. ed and ridered at leaft five feet of a perpendicular height from the top of the upper rail or rider to the bottom of fuch ditch or drain, or a hedge of thorn clofe (a) Chap. 70, a. 13 GCO, II. Digitized from Best Copy Available CXCVIII. a.