562 Assembly Proceedings, July 11-August 8, 1732.

Session
Laws

raised a certain Sum of Tobacco, and Money, amounting to Two
Hundred Fifty Five Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty Six
Pounds of Tobacco, and to One Hundred and Twenty Eight Pounds
Nineteen Shillings and Ten Pence 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 Payment, which is the Tenth 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 Habitations 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, Philemon Lloyd, Ben-
jamin Tasker, Philip Lee, and George Plater, Esqrs; Members of
His Lordship's Upper House of Assembly; and the Honourable
Col. John Mackall, Capt. Thomas Waughop, Capt. Ebenezer Black-
istone, John Beale Esq^r Col. Robert Hanson, Capt. George Dashiel,
M^r John Edmunson, Capt. Henry Hooper, M^r Joshua George, M^r
William Hamilton, M^r Ralph Crabb, and M^r William Hemsley, now
of the Honourable Lower House of Assembly, or the major Part of
them, be and appear at the City of Annapolis, the last Tuesday in
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 and Fifty Thousand
Pounds of Tobacco, and Three Hundred Pounds in Current Money of
this Province, more than what is already raised; and likewise to ap-
portion, order, and pay, out of the Publick Treasury of this Province,
the Sum of One Hundred and Twenty Eight Pounds Nineteen
Shillings and Ten Pence Current Money of this Province, to the
several Persons to whom the same shall be due, as by the Journal
of the Committee of Accounts appears; and a fair Journal of all their
Proceedings to be delivered to the Clerk of the Lower House of
Assembly, for Satisfaction of all Persons therewith concerned, by
the Tenth Day of December next. And if it shall happen, that His
Excellency shall please to convene an Assembly, before the last Tues-
day in October next aforesaid, that then the present Act, and every
Thing therein contained, shall be void, and of no Effect.

Chap.
XXXII

p. 42

An Act for the Relief of Alexander Simms, and Archibald Johnson,
languishing Prisoners, in St. Mary's County Gaol.

Whereas, the said Alexander Simms, and Archibald Johnson, by
their humble Petition to this present General Assembly, have severally
set forth, That they have continued Prisoners for Debt, in the Custody