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the Justices of the several and respective County Courts of the said
Province are Impowred to make an Allowance of Fifteen Pounds
Current Money Yearly to the said Green, during the time Limited
with the Sheriffs Salary.
And further that the said Justices Levied and Caused to be raised
from the said Inhabitants of the said County the Quantity of 6000
Pounds of Tobacco for a Bounty on Linnen Whereas by the Act
entituled An Act for the Benefit of the Poor and Encouragement of
Industry, the respective County Justices are Impowered and directed
to Levy on the Taxable Inhabitants of each respective County
the Sum of thirty Pounds Current Money respectively with the
Sheriffs Salary every Year during the Continuance of the said Act
Your Committee Conceive that the Levying Tobacco as afore-
said is contrary to the express direction of the Act of Assembly, and
the more so as the Value of the said Quantities of Tobacco rated in
Current Money far exceed the Sums by the said Act to be Levied,

and is a very great Aggrievance But humbly submitted to the Con-
sideration of Your Honourable House
Signed p Order William Cumming Cl Com
Which Report was Read and Referred for Consideration on Mon-
day Morning
The House Adjourns until Monday Morning at nine of the Clock

L. H. J.

Monday Morning June 8. 1741

The House met according to Adjournment
M^r Thomas Aisquith Col^o Lloyd and M^r Robert Lloyd appeared
in the House
A Bill entituled An Act impowering the Reverend John Lang
Rector of Saint James's Parish and his Successors to Lease Lands
was Read the first time and Ordered to lie on the Table
Doctor Carroll from the Committee of Laws, delivers M^r Speaker
A Bill entituled A Supplementary Act to the Act entituled An Act
for repairing the damages already sustained in the Records of the
Land Secretary's Commissarys and County Court Offices and for

June 8

Security of the same Records for the future Read the first time and
Ordered to lie on the Table Philip Lee Esq^r from Upper House
delivers M^r Speaker the Bill entituled An Act for laying out and
applying A Sum exceeding £250 Current Money to the Uses therein
mentioned Indorsed (See page 170)
Which Bill was here Read and Passed for Ingrossing
The several Petitions of languishing Prisoners are now Read and
Granted
Samuel Chamberlain Esq^r from the Upper House delivers
M^r Speaker the Bill entituled An Act to cut of the Entail of a Parcel
of Land called Ropers Neck &c^a Indorsed (See page 170)

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