Acts and Orders of a Generall
Assembly for the Province of Maryland
At Patuxent the 24^th of September 1657.

By Commission from his Highness the Lord Protector of
England, Scotland, Ireland with the Dominions Thereunto
belonging

L. O. R.

No. 3
Liber B
p. 441

Present

Cap^t Richard Ewens Speaker

Cap^t Robert Vaughan
Cap^t Robert Slye
Cap^t Joseph Weekes
Mr Robert Taylor

Cap^t Tho: Besson
m^r. Peter Sharpe
Cap^t Phillip Morgin
m^r. Mich Brooks
m^r. James Johnson

The Acts of Recognition owned
and Assented unto

It is Enacted & Declared in the name of his highness the
Lord Protector of England with the Dominions thereunto
belonging and the Authority of this present Generall Assembly

that the Act of Recognition is acknowledged by this Assembly
and fully and freely Assented unto, and that after Publication
of this Act, All the Inhabitants of this Province are required to
owne, and faithfully to Suhmitt themselves thereunto

Acts Repealed viz^t

An Act concerning pub Levies upon the visible Estate of
the Inhabitants
An Act concerning Theft
An Act concerning births Marriages and Burialls
An Act concerning Sheriffs and Clarks ffees

Concerning Pub: Charge

It is ordered Enacted & Declared in the Name of his High-
ness the Lord Protector of England &c. and by the Authority
of this present Generall Assembly that all publick Charges of
this province shall this present year be Levied upon all person
taxable p pole and all men Servants that are or shall be brought
into this Province for the future of what age soever they be
shall be Taxable p pole as aforesaid.

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