Acts. 147

begun and held at the City of Annapolis, the Sixteenth Day of May, Liber B.L.C.
Anno Domini, Seventeen hundred forty and seven, entituled, An Act
for raising a Duty of three-half-pence Sterling per Hogshead on all
Tobacco exported out of this Province, for the Use of the Governor,
be, and is hereby, continued, and shall remain and be in full Force,
until the Twenty ninth Day of September, in the Year One thousand
seven hundred and forty nine.

June 10^th 1748
Read and Assented to
by the Lower House of
Assembly
Signed p Order
M. Macnemara Ct. lo. ho.

On behalf of the Right
Honourable the Lord
Proprietary of this Prov-
ince I will this be a Law.
Sam: Ogle

the Great Seal in
wax appenclant

10^th June 1748
Read & Assented to by
the Upper House of As-
sembly
Signed p Order
J Ross Cl. Up. Ho.

An Act impowering the Justices of Calvert County Court to assess
and levy on the taxable Inhabitants of the said County, a Sum
not exceeding One thousand Pounds, Current Money; and to
impower certain Commissioners therein named, to appropriate
the same towards building, finishing and compleating a new
County Court-House for the said County.

No. 18

Whereas the County Court-House of Calvert County is lately
burnt, by means of an unavoidable Accident, and that thereby the
said County is at present destitute of a proper and convenient Place
to hold their Court in. For Remedy whereof, it is humbly prayed
that it may be Enacted,
And 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

[Preamble.]

of the same, That the Justices of Calvert County Court for the Time
being, shall be, and they are hereby authorized, impowered and
required, on their laying their County Levy in November Court,
Seventeen hundred forty and nine, to assess and levy on the taxable
Inhabitants of the said County, by two equal Assessments, any Sum

[Justices
impowered
to levy, &c.]

of Money not exceeding Two hundred and fifty Pounds, current
Money, in each Year, exclusive of the Sheriff's Salary of Five per
Cent, for Collection thereof; and the same Sum of Money, or such
Part thereof as shall so as aforesaid be annually assessed and levied,
to pay, by an Order of Court, (which they are hereby authorized
and impowered to make) to the Commissioners hereafter named,
or the major Part of them, to be by them, or the major Part of
them, applyed to the Use and Purpose herein-after-mentioned, and
not otherwise.
And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That
Master Walter Smith, Master John Mackall, Master John Brome,
Master Benjamin Mackall, and Master Gabriel Parker, be, and are

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