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HORATIO SHARPE, Esq; Governor.
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1. To the Expences of Enlisting, Victualling,
&c. Three Hundred Men
£. 5000 : 0 : 0
for the ROYAL-AMERICAN Regiment
, and for Purchasing Wheat, and
conveying it to New-York,
for the Use of his Majesty's Forces under the
Command of the Earl of Loudoun,
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2. To the a Payment
for Scalps of Indian Enemies, or live Enemies, taken
3000 : 0 : 0
or killed within this Province,
&c. (at 50 l. each) by Persons not being
in the Pay of this Province
as Soldiers, ---- ----
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3. To the raising, cloathing, supporting, &c. One
Hundred Men (Officers
3400 : 0 : 0
included) to be incorporated
with the 200 Men already raised by the Act
of 1756, ch. 5, and to
be continued on Foot till the 10th April next: One
Third Part at least, of the
whole 300 Men to be employed as Rangers,
for the Protection of the Frontier
Inhabitants. Which Soldiers were entitled
to 30 l. for every
Indian Scalp or Prisoner by them taken, &c.
4. Towards compleating Fort-Frederick,
and for Payment and Subsistence
2400 : 0 : 0
of the Garrison,
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5. To the purchasing Arms and Ammunition, for
the Maintaining a Magazine 3100
: 0 : 0
for the better Defence of this
Province, and to be distributed as
the Governor should appoint,
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6. To his Excellency Horatio Sharpe, Esq;
to reimburse him the Charge of
620 : 2 : 8
Subsisting and Paying the Rangers
employed last Spring on the Frontier,
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Amounting in the whole, to £.
17530 : 2 : 8
This Act appropriated such Part as remained unapplied
of the 1000 l. appointed by the Act of
1756, ch. 5, for the Payment of 10 l. each for Indian
Scalps and Prisoners, to the Uses of Nº 2,
above mentioned, and repealed that part of the aforesaid Act.
The Agents appointed by that Act, were impowered, on
a written Order from the Governor,
to draw, &c. for the Sums above mentioned (except that of Nº 6,
which was to be paid by the
Commissioners of the Loan-Office to his Excellency) and were allowed a
Commission of Three
per Cent, &c.
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CHAP.
XIX.
a See 1763,
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CHAP. XX.
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An Act impowering the Justices of Somerset County, to levy,
not exceeding Twenty
Thousand Pounds of Tobacco, upon the Taxable Inhabitants
of said County, to
be applied to the b Purpose
therein directed. Lib. H.S. fol. 296.
b Viz.
For the making and compleating a Road and Causeway through Vienna
Marsh in the said
County, from the fast Land down to the Rover Nanticoke, opposite
to Vienna Town in Dorchester
County: The said Causeway to have a sufficient Foundation of
Wood, to be raised to a Height
not to be overflowed by the Water from the said River, and 12 feet Wide
at least at the Top,
well Sanded, with one or more Turning Places thereon. The said Justices
to appoint an Overseer,
with a sufficient Number of the adjacent Inhabitants under his Direction,
to keep the same
in good Repair as other Roads ought to be kept, without any further Tax
upon the County,
under the like Penalties for Neglect or Omission of Duty as other Overseers
and People under
them now are by the Laws in Force relating to Public Roads, &c.
The Act of 1756, ch. 8,
is hereby repealed.
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Passed 9th
Oct. 1756. |
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CHAP. XXI.
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An Act for the c Relief of sundry
of the Inhabitants of Charles County. Lib.
H.S. fol. 298. OBS.
c Viz.
To make good, by a County Levy, to the several Proprietors, the Damage
done to
their Inspected Tobaccoes, lying in Piles's Warehouse in Charles
County, which was blown
down by a most violent Hurricane on the 20th June 1756, &c.
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Ditto. |
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CHAP. XXII.
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A Supplementary ACt to the Act, entitled, d
An Act for the speedy and effectual
Publication of the Laws of this Province, and
for the Encouragement of Jonas
Green, of the City of Annapolis, Printer.
Lib. H.S. fol. 299. EXP. |
Ditto. |
d 1756, ch. 14,
which expired the 20th December 1758.
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CHAP. XXIII.
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A Supplementary Act to an Act, entitled, e
An Act for granting a Supply of
Forty Thousand Pounds for his Majesty's Service, and
striking Thirty-four Thousand
and Fifteen Pounds Six Shillings thereof, in Bills of
Credit; and raising a
Fund for sinking the same. Lib. H.S.
fol. 301. OBS.
N.B. The
Original Act of 1756, ch. 5, having not been published in sundry
Parts of the Province,
timely enough for the people of make due Entry of the Liquors in their
Possession, or
Vestries to meet for making Lists of Batchelors, &c. the present Act
gave farther Time for those
Purposes, and exempted them from the Penalties thereby
incurred, &c.
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Ditto.
e 1756, ch. 5. |
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CHAP. XXIV.
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An Act for further continuing an Act, entitled, f
An Act to prevent the Exportation
or Carrying out of this Province, Ammunition, Warlike
Stores, or Provisions
of any Kind, towards supplying the French, or
their Allies. Lib. H.S.
fol. 303. EXP. |
Passed 9th
Oct. 1756. |
f 1755, ch. 16,
hereby continued till the 10th May 1757.
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