Acts. 149

Justices of the said County Court, for the Time then being, and
they are hereby impowered, authorized and required, to assess and
levy on the taxable Inhabitants of the said County, by three equal
and annual Assessments, the Sum of Five hundred Pounds Current
Money, together with the Sheriff's Salary of Five per Cent, for
Collection; and when the same is so levied and assessed, to pay the

Liber B. L. C.
[Justices im-
powered to
levy, &c.]

same to the Representatives of the County for the Time being, who
are hereby authorized and required to apply the Five hundred
Pounds aforesaid to the building, finishing and compleating a con-
venient Goal in the said County near and convenient to the new
Court-House so as aforesaid to be erected, and such Goal shall be
taken, held, and deemed to be the proper Goal of Calvert County.
And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the
Commissioners so as aforesaid 'appointed by this Act, shall be, and
they are hereby authorized and impowered, to employ some able and

[Levying of
money for
building a
Goal.]

p. 453

skilful Person to overlook the Workman or Workmen so by them
employed, in building, finishing and compleating the Court-House
aforesaid, and to pay such Person for his Trouble therein, such
reasonable Reward, as by them the said Commissioners, or the
major Part of them, and the said Person, shall be agreed upon.

[Work on
Court House
to be over-
look'd.]

June 10^th 1748
Read & Assented to by
the Lower House of As-
sembly
Signed p Order
M Macnemara Cl. 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 appendant

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

An additional supplementary Act to the Act entituled, An Act
relating to Servants and Slaves.

Whereas by an Act of Assembly of this Province, made at a
Session of Assembly begun and held at the City of Annapolis, the
Twenty-sixth Day of April, Anno Domini, One thousand seven
hundred and fifteen, Entituled, An Act relating to Servants and
Slaves, it is Enacted, That any Person or Persons whatsoever that
shall, after the Publication of the said Act, wittingly or willingly
entertain any Servant or Slave, unlawfully absenting him, her or
themselves from their Master, Mistress, Dame or Overseer, shall
be fined Five hundred Pounds of Tobacco, for every Night or
Twenty-four Hours that such Person or Persons shall give such
Entertainment. And whereas it is represented to this General As-
sembly, that many crafty and ill-disposed Persons knowing that they
are not liable to the Payment of the said Fine, unless they entertain
such Servant or Slave one whole Night, or Twenty-four Hours,
without Intermission, do, by frequently entertaining the Servants
and Slaves of the good People of this Province at dead Times of
Night, for several Hours together, entice them secretly to make

No. 19

[Preamble.]