308 Assembly Proceedings, May 24-June 24, 1749.

Liber B. L. C.

aforesaid, in Current Money, in the same Manner as they are en-
abled to pay and discharge the Public or County Levy.

[No more
Tobacco of
Money to be
levied, than
by this Act
is directed.l

And be it further Enacted, That the said Justices of Baltimore
County Court shall not levy, or cause to be levied, on the taxable
Inhabitants of the said County, any more Tobacco or Money, for
the repairing or enlarging the Court-House of the same County,
than is herein directed, or they are hereby impowered to levy, for
and during the Space and Term of two Years next ensuing; any
Law, Statute, Usage, or Custom, to the contrary thereof in any wise
notwithstanding.

June 23^d 1749
Read and Assented to
by the Lower House of
Assembly
Signed p Order
M. Macnemara Cl lo. ho.

On behalf of the Right
Hon^ble the Lord Prop^ry
of this Province I will
this be a Law
Sam: Ogle

The Great Seal in
wax appendant

23^d June 1749
Read and Assented to
by the Upper house of
Assembly
Signed p Order
J Ross Cl Up Ho.

No. 5

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 im-
power certain Commissioners therein named, to appropriate the
same towards building, finishing, and compleating a new County
Court-House, for the said County.

[Preamble.]
p. 469

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 Proprie-
tary, by and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's Gover-
nor, and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the Au-
thority 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,
in the Years Seventeen hundred and forty-nine, and Seventeen hun-
dred and fifty, to assess and levy on the taxable Inhabitants of the

[Five hun-
dred pounds
to be levied
by two equal

Assess-
ments.]

said County, by two equal Assessments, any Sum of Money not
exceeding two hundred and fifty Pounds 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 Com-
missioners hereafter named, or the major Part of them, to be by
them, or the major Part of them, applied to the Use and Purpose
herein after mentioned, and not otherwise.