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in any such Action or Suit, shall be by the Court absolutely dis-
charged therefrom.
And to the End the said Bills of Credit may be the more useful
to the Inhabitants of this Province, and the Circulation of them
as speedy and diffusive as possible,
Be it Enacted by the Authority, Advice, and Consent aforesaid,
That there shall be Thirty Shillings, in the said Bills of Credit,
issued, for every Taxable Person, in each respective County, within
this Province; and also Ten Pounds, over and above the said Thirty
Shillings, for each respective County, at the County Court to be held
next after the said Bills of Credit shall be signed, and ready to be
emitted, to the Justices of the several County Courts, to be dis-
tributed and disposed of as followeth, viz. Thirty Shillings thereof
to be paid to every Master or Mistress of a Family, or his or her
Order, for such Master, and every Taxable Person to him belong-
ing; and the like Sum for every Taxable Person belonging to any
Mistress of a Family, or Mistress of any Servant or Servants, or
Slave or Slaves, being a Taxable or Taxables; and also to every
other Free Man, being a Taxable, or his Order, the like Sum of
Thirty Shillings, in the said Bills of Credit; for which the several
and respective County Clerks shall take Receipts, in a Paper Book
for that Purpose, to be by them transmitted to the Commissioners
or Trustees; for which each respective Clerk shall have and receive
Ten Pounds, in the said Bills of Credit.
And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, by and with the
Advice and .Consent aforesaid, That any Person, who shall claim
and receive any of the said Bills, for more Taxables than he or
she shall really have, or shall give in any Servant or Slave, or other
Person, as a Taxable, who shall not then be really a Taxable, accord-
ing to the Laws of this Province, shall, for every Servant, Slave,
or other Person, so given in, or for whom the Bounty intended by
this Act of Thirty Shillings per Taxable, shall be claimed, and
received, shall forfeit Five Pounds current Money of Maryland; to
be recovered by any Person who will sue for the same, by Action of
Debt, Bill, Plaint, or Information; wherein no Essoyn, Protection,
or Wager of Law, shall be allowed.
And be it further Enacted, That a Sum in the said Bills of Credit,
not exceeding Three Thousand Pounds, shall be applyed to purchase
convenient Ground for the Use of the Publick, and building a
Dwelling House, and other Conveniencies thereon, for the Gov-
ernor of this Province, for the Time being, to reside in: And Five
Hundred Pounds, in each respective County within this Province,
shall be laid out in building convenient Goals in the respective
Counties, near and convenient to the several Court-Houses; under
the Direction and Appointment of the several Representatives of the
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