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Ch. XXV.
Preamble.
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An Act for the Assessment and Payment of the Public Charge of
this Province.
Whereas, there is the Sums of Four Hundred Seventy-four
Pounds Fifteen Shillings and Six Pence Current Money, and Six
Hundred and Seven Thousand Six Hundred and One Pounds of
Tobacco, due from the Public of this Province to the several Credi-
tors thereof, as appears by the Journal of Accounts Assented to by
both Houses of this present Session of Assembly: For the Discharge
and Payment whereof,
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Sums to be
levied.
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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 Sums of Four Hundred Seventy-four Pounds Fifteen
Shillings and Six Pence Current Money, and Six Hundred and
Seven Thousand Six Hundred and One Pounds of Tobacco, together
with a Salary of Five Pounds per Cent, thereon, for Collection, to
the several Sheriffs who shall collect and pay the same, shall be
Assessed and Levied from the several Taxable Inhabitants of this
Province, by an equal Levy or Assessment this Year.
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Names of
the Persons
who com-
pose the
Committee.
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And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the
Honourable Edmund Jenings, Esq; Col. Charles Hammond, Philip
Thomas, Esq; and Daniel Dulany, Esq; of the Upper House, and
that Mr. Philip Hammond, Dr. Charles Carroll, Mr. Henry Hall,
and Mr. Thomas Worthington, of the Lower House of Assembly,
or the major Part of them, be, and are hereby appointed, a Com-
mittee to meet together at the City of Annapolis, on the Tenth Day
of November next, then and there to Assess and Apportion the afore-
said Sums of Money and Tobacco, with the Salary aforesaid thereon,
by even and equal Portions, on the Taxable Inhabitants aforesaid,
and particularly to Order and Direct how much thereof shall be
Levied and Collected by the Sheriff of each respective County, and
to what Persons, being Public Creditors, the respective Sheriffs shall
Pay the same, and a fair Journal of all and singular their Proceed-
ings in the Premises, to make and deliver to the Clerk of the Lower
House of Assembly, to be laid before the next General Assembly
thereafter to be held for this Province.
And whereas by an Act of Assembly, entituled, An Act for issuing
and paying out of the Office of the Commissioners or Trustees for
Emitting Bills of Credit established by Act of Assembly, the Sum
of Two Thousand Five Hundred and Sixty-two Pounds Ten Shil-
lings Current Money in Bills of Credit, for the Encouragement of
Persons voluntarily Inlisting themselves in his Majesty's Service,
it is Enacted, That one Third Part of the said Sum of Two Thou-
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