90 Assembly Proceedings, June 3-23, 1752.

Liber B. L. C.

p. 565

by them the said Sheriffs so as aforesaid collected, retaining their
legal Commissions for the Collection thereof, and a Deduction of
one fourth Part of the whole, as in Cases of Debts, being made to the
Sheriffs; to be applied by the Justices aforesaid towards defraying
the Charges of the several and respective Counties, where the One
Pound of Tobacco per Poll as aforesaid, or any Part thereof, has been
collected and received, and not otherwise; any Law, Usage, or Cus-
tom to the contrary notwithstanding.

[Proviso,
with Respect
to Frederick
County.]

Provided always, and it is hereby Enacted, That the Sheriff of
Prince George's County, who collected the aforesaid Pound of
Tobacco per Poll, his Heirs, Executors, or Administrators, shall,
and he or they are hereby directed and obliged to pay a propor-
tionable Part or Share of the said One Pound of Tobacco per Poll,
so as aforesaid collected, unto the Justices of Frederick County, for
the Uses aforesaid, in Proportion to the Number of Taxables in the
several Hundreds at the Time of collecting the same, since sepa-
rated from the said Prince George's County, and erected into a
County by the Name of Frederick County aforesaid.

22.^d June 1752
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 Prop^ry
of this Province I will/
this be a Law
Benj.^a Tasker

the great seal in
Wax Appendant

23 June 1752
Read and Assented to
by the Upper/House of
Assembly/
Signed p Order
J. Ross Cl Up Ho.

No. 11

[An Act
continued.]

An Act continuing an Act entituled, "An Act for ascertaining the
Allowance of Petit Jurors attending the Provincial Court, to
limit Costs with Respect to Witnesses, and for settling their Al-
lowance as to itinerant Charges."

Be it Enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary,
by and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's President,
and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the Authority
of the same, That an Act of Assembly of this Province entituled,
An Act for ascertaining the Allowance of Petit Jurors attending
the Provincial Court, to limit Costs with Respect to Witnesses, and
for settling their Allowance as to itinerant Charges, made at a
Session of Assembly begun and held at the City of Annapolis the
twenty-fourth Day of May, Anno Domini One thousand seven

[Continuance
of this Act.]

hundred forty and nine, be and is hereby continued, and to be and
remain in Force for and during the Term of three Years, and unto