Acts. 517

May the 23^d 1705 May the 23^d 1705

Read and Assented to by the Read and Assented to by her
house of Delegates Majesties hon^ble Councill.
W Taylard Clk hD. W Bladen Cl Concil.

May the 25^th 1705

On the behalf of her most Sacred Majesty Anne Queen of
England &c^a I will this be a Law.

Jo: Seymour Scale

An Act Impowering a Committee to lay assess and apportion
the publick Leavy of this province for this present year
One thousand Seven hundred and five.

Whereas this present Generall Assembly have for the de-
fraying the Publick charge of this province to the twenty third
day of May one thousand seven hnndred and five raised a
certaine Sume of tobacco and mony amounting to the Sume
of two hundred thirty six thousand Six hundred forty seven

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pounds of tobacco and two hundred Sixty seven pounds
Seventeen Shillings and nine Pence half penny in mony But
by reason more publick charges may arise and grow due
before the tenth day of October next which is the usuall and
accustomed time of Payment at which time againe to call &
convene the whole Assembly for that Occasion only consider-
ing the great Number of them and the remoteness of their
habitations from the place appointed would be very chargea-
ble and troublesom to the whole Province in generall for
prevention whereof —
Be it Enacted by the Queens most Excellent Maj^ty by and
with the advice and consent of her Majesty's Governour
Councill and Assembly of this Province and the Authority
of the same that one Burgess or delegate out of Each county
and one out of the city of Saint Maries be and are hereby
Authorized and appointed a committee to Joyne with some
of her Majesties honble Councill to lay and equally assess the
said Publick Levy of this Province (that is to say) of her
Maj^ties honourable Councill Thomas Tench Esq^r Col^o John
Hammond Liev^t Col William Holland and James Sanders
Esq^rs And of the house of Delegates Col. Thomas Smyth
Speaker M^r George Muschamp M^r William Watts M^r Charles
Greenberry M^r Robert Skinner M^r John Contee M^r Edward
Dorsey M^r John Macclaster M^r Robert Gouldesborough M^r
Thomas Frisby M^r John Taylor and M^r Tho^s Greenfield or

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