396 Assembly Proceedings, Sept. 21-Oct. 29, 1742.

Session
Laws

Services to the Country, and most justly conclude that the several
Sheriffs should and ought to discount with them for so much Tobacco
as they are allowed in their Hands, or so much as will discharge that
Part of their Levy as is by the said Act to be paid in Money, at the
Rate of Ten Shillings per Hundred, be it before or after the Tenth
Day of April yearly; yet so it is, that the said Sheriffs, or some of
them, have insisted to pay, and have paid to the said Inhabitants,
their whole Allowances aforesaid in Money, at the Rate of Ten Shil-
lings per Hundred, and at the same Time demanded from, and
obliged the People to pay either the whole of the Tobacco they stand
charged with for Public or County Levies, or such high and exorbi-
tant Prices for such Tobacco, as they were pleased to put thereon :
For the Remedy of which Evil,
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

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same, That from and after the End of this present Session of Assem-
bly, when and as often as any of the Inhabitants aforesaid shall have

Levies
payable
either in
Money or
Tobacco,
may be paid
in Money,
after the
Rate of 10s,
per 100.

any Allowance or Allowances in the Public or County Levies, for
any Sum or Sums of Current Money or Tobacco, which may be paid
and discharged in Money at the Rate aforesaid, and such Inhabitants
at the same Time are charged or chargeable with any Sum or Sums
of Tobacco, in such Levies, which by the afore-recited Act may be
payable in Money, before or by the Tenth Day of April yearly, the
several and respective Sheriffs within this Province shall, and are
hereby obliged and required to make and give unto such Inhabitants,
and every of them, a Discount or Allowance for such Tobacco, so
far forth as their respective Allowance or Allowances aforesaid, in
the Public or County Levies, shall come to, either before or after the
Tenth Day of April yearly; the before-recited Act, or any other Law,
Usage, or Custom, to the contrary notwithstanding.
And for as much as the Public and County Levies (except before
excepted) are now payable in Tobacco or Money, at the Rate of Ten
Shillings per Hundred, at the Election of the people who are to pay
the same: To the End therefore, That the Public and County Cred-
itors, or such Persons who have Allowances made to them in such
Public or County Levies, may be informed how much thereof hath
been paid in Tobacco, and how much in Money, and thereby know
what Proportion or Share of such their respective Allowances, they
are or ought to receive in Tobacco, and what Proportion in Money,
Be it Enacted, by and with the Authority, Advice, and Consent
aforesaid, That the several Sheriffs within this Province shall, and

Alpha-
betical Lists
to be set
up, of all the
Taxables
in each
County.

are hereby obliged and required, on the First Day of June Court,
yearly hereafter, during the Continuance of this Act, to make out
Two fair Alphabetical Lists, of the Names and Sirnames of the
several Persons within their respective Counties, who are charged
or chargeable with any Public or County Levies or Taxes, and shall