458 Assembly Proceedings, May 8-June 2, 1750.

Liber B. L. C.

the End of the next Session of Assembly which shall happen after
the Expiration of the said three Years.

23^d May 1750
Read and Assented to
by the Lower House of
Assembly
Signed p Order
M Macnemara G 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

I^st June 1750
Read & Assented to by
the Upper House of As-
sembly

Signed p Order
J Ross. Cl Up Ho.

No. 6
p. 490

An Act to enable the Justices of Kent County Court, for the Time
being, to levy on the taxable Inhabitants of the said County a
Quantity of Tobacco, for the Uses therein mentioned.

[Preamble.]

Whereas it is represented to this General Assembly, that the
Court-House of Kent County is not only much out of Repair, but
is also, by Means of the great Increase of the Inhabitants, and the
Business of the said County, become too small for the Purposes of a
Court-House.

[Justices of
Kent County
Court to
levy 50000
lb. of
Tobacco.]

Be it therefore Enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Pro-
prietary, 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 it shall and may be lawful to and for
the Justices of Kent County Court, for the Time being, and they
are hereby authorised, impowered, and required, on their laying
their County Levy in November Court, in the Years Seventeen hun-
dred and fifty, and Seventeen hundred and fifty-one, to assess and
levy on the taxable Inhabitants of the said County, by two equal
Assessments, the Quantity of fifty thousand Pounds of Tobacco,
together with the Sheriff's Salary of five per Cent for Collection;
which Sum, so assessed and levied, shall be collected by the Sheriff
of Kent County aforesaid, who is hereby required and directed to
pay the same to the Commissioners 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.

[Proviso.]

Provided always, And it is further Enacted, That it shall and may
be lawful for the several and respective Inhabitants of Kent County,
to pay and discharge the said several and respective Sums of To-
bacco, so to be levied and raised to and for the Uses aforesaid, in
Current Money, in the same Manner as they are enabled to pay and
discharge the Public or County Levy.

[Names and
Duty of the
Commis-
sioners.]

And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That
Master Bedingfield Hands, James Smith, James Calder, Joseph
Nicholson, John Williamson, Samuel Tovey, and William Hynson,
be and are hereby appointed Commissioners, and as such impowered
to meet at Chester-Town in Kent County, on or before the first Day
of March next, and then and there to treat and agree with an Under-