Acts. 469

Beatty two Pounds, and to John White the Sum of two Pounds ten
Shillings: And also that the Justices of Baltimore County for the

Liber B. L. C.

Time being shall, and they are hereby directed and impowered to
levy on the taxable Inhabitants of their County, at the laying of their
next County Levy, the Sum of fourteen Pounds sixteen Shillings
Current Money, to be paid in Manner and Form following; that is
to say, to Thomas Beatty the Sum of two Pounds, to John Dorsey,
junior, of Patuxent in Anne Arundel County, four Pounds; to
Daniel Rawlings, senior, four Pounds; to Thomas Sheredine two
Pounds six Shillings, and to John Stinchicomb two Pounds ten
Shillings; for their several and respective Services, as Commission-
ers and Assistants in settling the Bounds of the said Frederick and
Baltimore Counties: Together with five per Cent for the Sheriffs
of Baltimore and Frederick Counties their Salaries, for collecting
and paying the same.

p. 497

26^th May 1750
Read and Assented to
by the Lower House of
Assembly
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

I^st June 1750
Read and Assented to
by the Upper House of
Assembly
Signed p Order
J Ross. Cl Up Ho.

An Act to oblige Owners, Overseers, and Managers of Iron-Works,
to assist in repairing public Roads.

No. 14

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 of the
same, That the Owner or Owners, Overseer or Overseers, or Mana-
gers of any Iron- Work or Works within this Province, shall from
time to time, and at all Times hereafter, permit and suffer one
Labourer out of every ten labouring Persons, belonging to or em-
ployed in working at such Work or Works, to observe the Orders
of the respective Overseers of the Highways, where such Work or
Works are or may be, in assisting in or about the clearing, mending
and repairing the Highways, or public Roads and Bridges, in such
Manner as other Labourers and male taxable Persons are compelled
to do, by an Act of Assembly of this Province entituled, An Act for
the marking of Highways, and making the Heads of Rivers, Creeks,
Branches and Swamps passable for Horse and Foot, made at a Ses-
sion of Assembly begun and held at the Town and Port of An-
napolis, the fifth Day of September, in the Year of our Lord Seven-
teen hundred and four; and subject to the like Pains and Penalties
as are by the said recited Act directed: To be recovered and applied
according to the Directions of an Act of Assembly entituled, An Act
directing the Manner of the Recovery of Fines, for not appearing

[Every tenth
Person to
assist in re-
pairing the
Highways.]