380 Assembly Proceedings, Oct. 2-Nov. 17, 1753.

Liber H. S.
No. I

p. 123

Hundred and Forty Eight, entituled, An Act to divide Prince
George's County, and to erect a new one by the Name of Frederick
County, among other Things it was Enacted, " That the Justices of
Frederick County should be authorized and impowered to assess and
levy on the taxable Persons of the same County, a Sum of Money
therein mentioned, for Building and Erecting a Court-House." And
whereas it has been found, that the said Sum is insufficient for Build-
ing, Erecting, Compleating, and Finishing the same ;

[210 l. to be
levied in
Frederick
County for
Finishing
their Court-
House.]

Be it therefore Enacted, by the Right Honourable the Lord Pro-
prietary, by and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's Gov-
ernor, and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the
Authority of the same, That the Justices of Frederick County, for the
Time being, shall and may, and they are hereby authorized, impow-
ered, and directed, to levy and assess upon the taxable Inhabitants of
the said County, at next November Court, a Sum of Money, not
exceeding Two Hundred and Ten Pounds Current Money, and the
Salary of Five per Centum to the Sheriff for collecting the same;
which said Sum of Money shall be collected by the Sheriff of the
said County in the same Manner as other Public and County Dues are
collected; One Hundred and Ten Pounds of which said Sum of
Money, so to be collected as aforesaid, to be paid to Thomas Radford,
of Frederick County, Joiner, for the Work done by him in and about
the said Court-House; and the Residue of the said Sum of Money to
be applied by the said Justices to the compleating and finishing the
said Court-House in such Manner, as to the said Justices, in their
Direction, shall seem meet and proper.

17.^th November 1753
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 Pro-
prietary of this Province
I will this be a Law
Hor.° Sharpe

the great seal in
Wax Appendant

17 Novem.^r 1753
Read and Assented to
by the Upper House of
Assembly
Signed p Order
J. Ross Cl Up Ho.

No. 31

A Supplementary Act to the Act entituled, An Act impowering the
Justices of Baltimore County Court, to assess and levy a Sum of
Current Money, and for other Purposes therein mentioned.

[Preamble.]

Whereas, the Rector, Vestrymen, Churchwardens, and other Par-
ishioners, of Saint John's Parish, in Baltimore County, have, by their
Petition to this General Assembly, set forth, That the Sum of Money
assessed and levied, in Virtue of the said recited Act, is not suffi-
cient for building and finishing a Chappel of Ease for the said Parish,

p. 124

according to the Directions of the said Act, and therefore prayed,
that a further Sum of Seventy Thousand Pounds of Tobacco might
be levied, by two equal Assessments, on the taxable Inhabitants of