Assembly Proceedings, Nov. 14-Dec. 8, 1688. 225

fire hearth above and that all the staires and floores where the
same are defectiue be made good & Substantiall and alsoe be
made good folding windowes of halfe Inch good board for all
the windowes of the said house aboue and below Staires for
w^ch said worke so done Compleated & finished, and every
part & parcell thereof substantially and workmanlike Bee It

Lib. W. H,

alsoe ffurther Enacted by the authority aforesaid that Joseph
ffreeman Carpenter who hath vndertaken to doe pforme &
finish all & every the abovesaid particulars according as is
above Expressed, and hath given Security to pforme the same
be paid out of the publick Leavy of this province the summe
of Twenty Thousand pounds of Tobacco to be paid & allowed
in S^t Maries, Calvert, Charles & Ann Arrandell Countyes or
some of them, & alsoe the other payment to Richard Benton
to be made in the same Countyes.

An Act for payment and assessing the
publick Charge of this Province

Whereas there hath been Three hundred ninety seaven
Thousand One hundred twenty and ffive pounds of Tobacco
Expended laid out and disbursed by the vpper and Lower
houses of this p^rsent Generall Assembly and by Severall other
the good people of this province for the publick good of the
same & to the Intent that the same may be Sattisfied & paid
to those psons to whome the same is due Bee It therefore
Enacted by the R^tt Hono^ble the Lord Propry by and with the
advice and Consent of the vpper & Lower houses of this
p^rsent Generall Assembly & the authority of the same that the
said Three hundred ninety Seaven Thousand One hundred
twenty & ffive pounds of Tobacco be paid in manner and
forme as is hereafter Expressed that is to Say to Samuell
Sewall of Sommersett County Two hundred pounds of
Tobacco, To George Burgess of Ann Arrund^ll County one
Thousand & Sixty pounds of Tobacco, to ffrancis Jenckins
High Sherriffe of Sommersett County Nine thousand Nine
hundred & Eighty ffive pounds of Tobacco, to Andrew
Abington ffive thousand ffive hundred & thirty pounds of
Tob^o to Richard Tull nine Thousand ffour hundred and tenn
pounds of Tobacco To Philip Lynes Eight Thousand ffour
hundred & Eighty pounds of Tobacco, To Thomas ffoster of
S^t Maries County Sixteen hundred pounds of Tobacco, to
Doct^r Joseph Sempile sixteen thousand pounds of Tobacco
Devenish Ninety pounds of Tobacco, to Coll: Peter Sayer
Seaven hundred & tenn pounds of Tobacco, to William

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Blankestein of S^t Maries County ffive hundred & fforty pounds

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