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		An Act Impowering a Committee to Lay Assess and Appor- tion the Publick leavy for this present year Seventeen hundred & three
	p. 427	Forasmuch as it would be a great Charge to this Province in generall for the whole Assembly to Continue Sitting only to Assess and proportion the Publick Charge ior this present year for prevention whereof Bee it Enacted by the Queens Most Excellent Majtie by & with the advice and Concent of this present Generall Assembly and the authority of the Same That one Burgess or Delegate out of each Respective County and one out of the Citty of St. Maries be and are hereby authorized Empowered and appointed a Committee to Joyn with some of her Majties honourable Councill to Lay and equally Assess the said Publick Leavy of this Province that is to say of her Majties honble Councill The honble Robert Smith Esqr Colo John Hammond and James Saunders Esqrs and of the house of Delegates Mr Richard Tilghman for Talbot County Mr George Muschamp for the Citty of St Maries Mr William Watts for the County of St. Maries Majr Thomas Smyth for Kent County Mr Samuell Young for Ann Arundell County Mr William Parker for Calvert County Mr Phillip Lynes for Charles County Mr John Hall for Baltemore Majr William Harris for Cecell County Mr Thomas Greenfield for Prince Georges County Mr Jacob Loockerman for Dor- chester County Mr Peter Dent for Somrsett County or the Majr part of them shall be and appeare at the towne and port of Annapolis on the thirtieth day of October Instant then and there to Lay and Assess the said publick Leavy allready raised and also to allow leavy and Assess what further Charge