364 Assembly Proceedings, August 19-Septembcr 6, 1731.

Session
Laws

as usual, to enable a Trial at Bar, for the Trying any Cause already
awarded to be tried at the Bar, or any other Trial at Bar, which the
said Justices shall think proper to order, at the said next Court, if the
Parties concerned shall agree thereto.

Chap. XXII

An Act impowering a Committee to lay, assess, and apportion the
Pnblick Levy, for this present Year, One Thousand Seven Hun-
dered and Thirty One.

Whereas, this present General Assembly have, for the defraying
the Publick Charge of this Province, to the Thirty First Day of
August last, raised a certain Sum of Tobacco, and Money, amounting
to Two Hundred Ninety Eight Thousand Four Hundred Twenty
Five Pounds of Tobacco, and Eighty Six Pounds Five Shillings.
current Money, as by the Journal of the Committee of Accounts
appears: But by Reason more Publick Charges may arise and grow
due, before the usual and accustomed Time of Paiment which is the
Tenth Day of November, yearly; at which Time, again to call and
convene the whole Assembly for that Occasion only, considering the
great Number of them, and the Remoteness of their Habitation
from the Place appointed, would be very chargeable and troublesome
to the whole Province in general :
Be It Enacted, by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary, by
and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's Governor, and the
Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the Authority of the
same, That the Honourable Charles Calvert, Esq; Col. William
Holland, Philemon Lloyd, Esq; Benjamin Tasker, Esq; and Philip
Lee, Esq; Members of His Lordship's Honourable Upper House
of Assembly; and the Honourable Col. John Mackall, Col. Thomas
Trueman Greenfield, James Harris, Esq; John Beale, Esq; Col.
John Fendal, Col. Levin Gale, James Holliday, Esq; Col. William
Ennalls, Mr. William Hamilton, Mr. Ralph Crabb, Mr. William
Hemsley, and Mr. Joshua George, now of the Honourable Lower
House of Assembly, or the major Part of them, be and appear at
the City of Annapolis, the Fourth Tuesday of October next, then
and there to lay and assess the Publick Levy, already raised :
and also to allow, levy, and assess what further Charges may
accrue, which to them shall justly appear to be due from the publick
not exceeding Two Hundred Thousand Pounds of Tobacco and Two
Hundred Pounds current Money of this Province, more than what is
already raised, and likewise to apportion, order, and pay out of the
Publick Treasury of this Province, the Sum of Eighty Six Pounds
Five Shillings current Money of this Province, to the Several Per-

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sons to whom the same shall be due, as by the Journal of the Com-
mittee of Accounts.appears; and a fair Journal of their Proceedings
to be delivered to the Clerk of the Lower House of Assembly, for
Satisfaction of all Persons therewith concerned, by the Thirtieth Day