208 Assembly Proceedings, August—September 1681.

Liber W. H.
p. 178

An Act for paym^t & assessing the
publicke charges of this province.

Whereas there hath beene ffiue hundred fforty seauen
Thousand Six hundred & Six pounds of Tobacco, expended
laid out & disbursed by the vpper & Lower houses of this
p^rsent Gen^ll Assembly & by seuerall others the good people
of this Province for the publike good of the same & to the
intent the same may bee satisfied & paid to those persons to
whom the same is due, Bee itt therefore enacted by the Right
Honourable the Lord Prop^ry by & with the advice & Consent
of the vpper & Lower houses of this p^rsent Gen^ll Assembly &
the Authority of the same, that the said ffiue Hundred fforty
Seauen Thousand Six Hundred & Six pds of Tobacco, to bee
paid in manner & forme as is heereafter expressed, (that is to
say) To Howell Powell Three Hundred pounds of Tob, to
John Dickenson Three Hundred pds of Tob, to Benjamin Par-
rott Three hundred pds of Tob, to Walter Dickenson Three
Hundred pounds of Tob, to Tho: Loggins Three Hundred
pounds of Tob, to Andrew Carry, Three Hundred pds of Tob,
to Charles Gorsuch Three Hundred pds of Tob, to Patricke
Mullikin Three Hundred pds of Tob, to Howell Powell Three
Hundred pds of Tob, to Will^m Steeuens att Bartho: Ennalls
house Three Hundred pds of Tob, to Richard Swetnam one
Thousand ffour Hundred sixty & six pds of Tob, to Patricke
Mullikin one hundred Twenty ffiue pounds of Tob, to Richard
Richardson Twenty pds of Tob, to Major Will^m Coursey nine
hundred pds of Tob. to Sam^ll Abbott ffour Hundred & Twenty
pds of Tob, to Thomas Pattison six Thousand pds of Tob,
to Walter Dickenson Three hundred pds of Tob, to Edw^d ffish
Three hundred pds of Tob, to John Clift Three Hundred pds
of Tob, to Nicholas Bellifont Three hundred pds of Tob, to
Edward Williams Three hundred pds of Tob, to Barth⁰ Lepers
Three hundred pds of Tob, to Coll William Burges Three
Thousand one hundred & ffifty pounds of Tob, to Henry
Ridgely Six hundred pds of Tob, to Abraham Child Eighty
pds of Tob, to Robert Proctor Three hundred pds of Tob, to
Edmund Beetenson one hundred pds of Tob, to Stephen
ffrancis one hundred & Twenty pds of Tob, to Christopher
Bridgewater sixty pds of Tob. To Thomas Knighton Eleuen
hundred sixty seauen pds of Tob, to Hen: Kidd ninety pds of
Tob, to Tho: ffeild sixty pds of Tob, to William Reid, to John
Grey, to Peter Bernett, to John Durden, to Richard Chaney
Jun^r to Tho: Beeson, to Tho: Cox, to John ffreclton, to Rob^t
Ward, to John Thrifte to Dan^ll Jones, to Will^m Jackson, & to
Edw^d Carter, each Thirty pds of Tob, to Roger Newman one
Thousand & ffifty pds of Tob, to Hen: Constable ffiue hundred
& Tenn pds of Tob, to Ralfe Hawkins, to Humphrey Boone,