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Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly, 1740-1744
Volume 42, Page 141   View pdf image (33K)
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Acts. 141


shall have Marginal Notes made and printed thereto, as also the
date of the Year wherein such Laws were respectively made, inserted
in each Page, and a List of such Laws made at the End of each
Session, with the Folio where they are Printed; all which the said
Jonas Green is hereby Required and Obliged to do, as well as those
other Services herein before mentioned, for the yearly Salary afore-
said.
And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That al-
though it may so happen that in any Year during the continuance
of this Act, there should not be any Session of Assembly held within

Session
Laws

Printers'
Duty to
make
marginal
Notes, &c.

this Province, whereby the said Jonas Green may be enabled to print
Laws and deliver them within such Year, that then and in such case,
the said Justices of each respective County shall nevertheless, and
they are hereby directed and required to Levy the said Sum of
Fifteen Pounds Current Money, free from deduction, in each respec-
tive County, to be paid by the respective Sheriff of each County
respectively, to the said Jonas Green, or his Order, for his better
Support and Encouragement in serving this Province and residing
within the same: For the Collection and Payment of which, or any

Allowance
to be made
the Printer
altho' no
Sessions.

other Sum or Sums in this Act mentioned, there shall be allowed to
the said Sheriff respectively, a Commission of Five per Cent, and
no more.
Provided always, and be it further Enacted by the Authority

The

Sheriff's
Commission
5 per Cent.

aforesaid, That it shall and may be Lawful for the Justices of each
respective County within this Province, and they are hereby required,
not to Pay the said Jonas Green the said Fifteen Pounds so to be
Levied for his Use as aforesaid, unless it shall be made appear to
them, that the Laws of the present or any future Session, shall be
Printed and Delivered in the manner before directed, within the
Space of Four Months next after the Conclusion of each Session of
Assembly; any Thing herein before contained to the contrary not-
withstanding.

If said
Green
neglects his
Duty the
Justices not
to make the
Allowance.

This Act to Continue until the last Day of December which shall
be in the Year of our Lord Seventeen Hundred and Forty Two, and
no longer.

Duration of
this Act.

An Act Reviving an Act of Assembly of this Province, entituled,
An Act to prevent Cutting up Tobacco Plants, Destroying of
Tobacco and Tobacco-Houses, and for Ascertaining the Punish-
ment of Criminals Guilty of the said Offences.

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

Chapter V
[Continues
1732 Ch. 8.]

the same, That the above mentioned Act, entituled, An Act to pre-
vent cutting up Tobacco Plants, destroying of Tobacco and Tobacco
Houses, and for ascertaining the Punishment of Criminals guilty of

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