150 Assembly Proceedings, November 17-December 20, 1769.

Liber R. G.
1769
[and if the
same shall
fall short,
the Com-
missioners to
pay the
Superin-
tendants
Bills of
Credit.]

[Proviso.]

to pay to the said Superintendants for building the said Stadt House
or the major part of Them so many of the said Bills of Credit as
may be sufficient to defray the Expence of Finishing and Corn-
pleating the said House and Enlarging repairing and inclosing the
said Parade in Manner aforesaid Any Thing herein before Con-
tained to the Contrary notwithstanding
Provided always that the Bills of Credit so to be paid for the
Purpose aforesaid together with the Money to be received from the
said Treasurers and their Representatives as aforesaid at the Ex-
change of Thirty Three pounds Six Shillings and eight pence per
Centum and at the rate of four Shillings and Six pence Sterling
per Dollar shall not Exceed the said Sum of Seven Thousand five
Hundred pounds Sterling.

[The Super-
intendants
to keep fair
Accounts.]

And be it further enacted That the Superintendants aforesaid
for building the said Stadt House or the major part of them shall
keep fair and distinct Accounts of all Monies which they shall receive
and expend by Virtue of this Act and the same shall from Time to
Time lay before the general Assembly of this Province for the Time
being for their Inspection. And to the End that the Superintendants
aforesaid may be enabled to cause the said Stadt House to be built
large and commodious enough for the purposes aforesaid

[The present
Stadt-
House to be
pull'd down,
and Re-
positories
provided
for the
Records.]

Be it further enacted That they or the major part of them may
cause the present Stadt House to be pulled down and make use of
any of the Materials thereof in the new Building that may be fit for
such use or otherwise dispose of Them to the best Advantage and
shall and may hire and provide at the Publick charge safe and secure
Rooms for Offices and Repositories for the Records now kept in the
Present Stadt House untill the Offices and Repositories to be built
in the new Stadt House shall be finished and fit to receive the said
Records,

[The House
in which the
Upper
House of
Assembly
usually sits,
vested in the
Justices of
Anne-
Arundel
County, and
the Cor-
poration of
the City of
Annapolis.]

And be it further Enacted That after the said Stadt House shall
be built and finished as aforesaid the House in which the Upper
House of Assembly usually sits and the Room thereto Adjoining
commonly called the Conference Chamber shall be and are hereby
vested in the Justices for the Time being of Ann Arundel County
to and for the use of the same County and the City of Annapolis in
which House the County Court of that County shall from Time to
Time be Held and the same House shall to every Intent and purpose
thenceforth be deemed the County Court House of the said County
and the Records of the same Court shall be hereafter kept in the
said Room called the Conference Chamber and at all Times when
the said County Court shall not be sitting the Mayors Court and the

[The Jus-
tices afore-
said to levy
in 1771 any
Quantity of
Tobacco for

Meetings of the Corporation of the City of Annapolis may be held
in the said House.
And be it further enacted That the Justices of Ann Arundel County
aforesaid at the Time of Laying the Levy of the said County for the