484 Assembly Proceedings, May

1 -June 4,

1744

U. H. J.

By John Hepburn Sheriff of Prince

Georges County
By John Darnall late Sheriff of Anne

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Arundell Co^ty
By Doctor Porter Sheriff of Talbot

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County
By John Handy Sheriff of Somerset
County

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£578.. 4.. 101/2

Your Committee also observe that in some Counties the Clerks
have made no Returns of the Lists of Ordinary Keepers, particularly
Calvert and Dorchester Counties, and Others have omitted some
Years, or are so imperfect that We cannot make a proper Return:
Therefore We recommend that the several Clerks be ordered to
return to the Commiss10ners, immediately a new and distinct List
or Account of each Year, beginning at March Court and ending
November Court in the several Counties, And that the several Sher-
iffs be likewise obliged forthwith to account and pay the Commis-
s10ners aforesaid the several and respective sums due from them,
as well on Account of the Money due for Ordinary Licenses, as for
the several Publick Assessments
We observe the several Sheriffs have returned into the Office,
many insolvent Ordinary Keepers, which We apprehend might, and
ought to have been recovered in such Case of their securities
Your Committee have reason to apprehend, that there are several
Sums of Money in most or all of the Counties, except Queen Anns
remaining of the Money delivered out of the Money for the Pay-
ment of the thirty shillings p Taxable at the first emitting the Money ;
and recommend that the Clerks of the several Counties be Ordered

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to send a true Account of the Monies then paid to the Taxables of
the said Counties (Queen Anns County excepted) to the Commis-
s10ners of the Paper Currency Office, and to transmit the Receipts
for the same as is directed by the Paper Currency Office in three
Months after Notice is given them by the Commiss10ners aforesaid
and that the said Commiss10ners be required immediately to forward
the said Notice, and that the said Clerks give Notice to the respec-
tive County Courts that they cause to be returned without delay to
the Commiss10ners aforesaid such Surplus Money as may be re-
maining on the said Account

All which is Submitted to the Considerat10n of both Houses this
29^th day of May 1744 by
Geo Plater James Weems T. Sheredine
G. Pemberton Tho^s Colvill