502 Assembly Proceedings, May 8-May 30, 1754.

L. H. J.
Liber No. 47
May 27

Doctor Carroll, from the Committee appointed to enquire into the
Amount of the Allowances made by the several County Courts to the
Poor, for Three Years last past, delivers to Mr. Speaker the following
Report.
By the Committee appointed by the Honourable the Lower House
of Assembly, to enquire into the Amount of the Allowances made by
the several County Courts for the Poor, for Three Years past, May
27, 1754-
In Obedience to the Order of your Honourable House of May the
9th, your Committee sent to the Clerk of the Council for the Returns
of the Levy Lists, from the several County Clerks, for the said Three

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Years, but have not been able to obtain only the Returns for the Year
1753 The Amount of which Charge, in each County, is hereunto
annexed, making 604,742 Pounds of Tobacco, besides the Sheriff's
Commission of Six Pounds per Centum, is 36,285, and amounts in
the Whole to 641,027 Pounds of Tobacco: Which is humbly sub-
mitted to the Consideration of your Honourable House.
Signed per Order, William Wilkins, Clerk.

A List of the Amount of Allowances to Pensioners in the several
Counties, in the Year 1753 :

Saint Mary's County, 48,536
Charles County, 62,200
Calvert County, 16,300
Prince George's County, 55,030
Anne Arundel County, 79,818
Baltimore County, 61,105
Frederick County, 9,118
Cascil County, 28,615
Kent County, 61,624
Queen- Anne's County, 69,318
Talbot County, 49,795
Dorchester County, 32,192
Somerset County, 19,170
Worcester County, 11,921

604,742

Which was read and ordered to lie on the Table.
Col. Hooper, from the Committee of Laws, delivers to Mr. Speaker
an Address to his Excellency, which was read, and on the Question
put, was approved.
Ordered, That the said Address be ingrossed.
Col. Hooper, from the Committee of Laws, delivers to Mr. Speaker
the following ingrossed Address, viz.