ACTS OF ASSEMBLY PASSED IN MAY 1754

At a Session of Assembly begun and held at the City of Annapo-
lis the Eighth Day of May in the ffourth Year of the Dominion of
the Right Honourable Frederick absolute Lord and Proprietary of
the Provinces of Maryland and Avalon Lord Baron of Baltimore
Annoqj Dom. 1754 and Ending the Thirtieth Day of the same
Month.
The following Laws were Enacted and Assented to by his Excel-
lency Horatio Sharpe Esquire Governour

Liber H. S.

No. 1

p. 142

No. I An additional Supplementary Act to the Act entituled, An Act for
amending the Staple of Tobacco, for preventing Frauds in his
Majesty's Customs, and for the Limitation of Officers Fees.
Whereas by an Act entituled, An Act for amending the Staple of

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Tobacco, for preventing Frauds in his Majesty's Customs, and for
the Limitation of Officers Fees, the Salaries allowed the Inspectors of
some of the Warehouses established by the said Act, are found by
Experience to be too small, and not adequate to the Services; and for
that it is represented that at some of the said Warehouses it will
not be necessary for the Inspectors to attend so long Time as by the
said Act is required: For Remedy whereof,

[Preamble.]

Be it Enacted, by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary by
and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's Governor, and

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the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the Authority of the
same, That there shall be allowed yearly and every Year, during the
Continuance of this Act, to the Inspector at Hunting Creek Ware-
house, in Dorchester County, inclusive of the Salary settled by the
said recited Act, the Sum of Sixty-Five Pounds Current Money, and
no more: To the Inspector of Ennalls's Warehouse, inclusive of the
Salary given by the said Act, the Sum of Sixty Pounds, and no more :
To the Inspector at Edward White's Warehouse, in the said County,
inclusive of the Salary given by the said Act, the Sum of Sixty
Pounds, and no more: To the Inspector at David Melvin's Ware-
house, in the said County, inclusive of the Salary given by the said
Act, the Sum of Fifty-Five Pounds, and no more. And to the

[Inspectors
Salaries in
Dorchester
County aug-
mented: ]

Inspectors at Bladensburg Warehouse, in Prince George's County,
inclusive of the Salary given by the said Act, the Sum of Fifty
Pounds Current Money each, and no more.
And be it further Enacted, That the Inspector at the North- West
Fork Warehouse, at the Bridge in Dorchester County, shall not be
obliged to attend at the said Warehouse more than Three Days in a
Week, between the First Day of April and the Twentieth Day of

[And at
Bladens-
burg.]

[Times of
Attendance
at some
Ware-
houses.]