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326 Assembly Proceedings, Feb. 23-May 22, 17
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L. H.J.
March 11
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Upon any Land Warrant put into the Hands of the
Surveyor, and Survey made of vacant Lands for
100 Acres or less, 1 s. and for every Io Acres, over
and above 100 Acres, id.......................
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20 00 0
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Licences for Marriage, 5 s. each, ..................
Every Writ of Error, Appeal, Habeas Corpus, or Cer-
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100 00 0
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tiorari, 2 s. 6 d................................
Every Writ of Entry for disseisin en le post, 53.....
Every Indenture, Lease, or Deed-poll, recorded, is...
Every original Writ issued out of the Court of Chan-
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3 00 0
10 00 0
50 00 0
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cery, except Writs of Entry,1 s..................
Every Subpoena issuing out of the Court of Chancery,
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1 00 0
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I S. .......................................
Every Capias ad respondendum issuing out of the
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1 00 0
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Provincial Court, 1 s...........................
Every Capias ad respondendum issuing out of the
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10 00 0
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County Courts, 6 d............................
Every Citation issuing out of the Prerogative Court,
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140 00 0
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Every Charter-party, Bond, Bill, or other obligatory
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5 00 0
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Instrument, under the Seal of the Party, Protest, or
other notorial Act, 6 d. and every Letter of Attorney,
6 d. .......................................
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100 00 0
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£7953 00 0
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Which several Duties, Impositions, and Taxes, amounting per
Annum to the Sum of £7953 will, in Five Years, clear of Com-
mission for Collection, nett £37,775 and as the several Duties, Impo-
sitions, and Licences, mentioned in an Act of Assembly entituled,
An Act for his Majesty's Service, made at a Session of Assembly,
begun and held at the City of Annapolis the I7th Day of July, 1754,
will, we presume, be disengaged in about Three Years Time, 'tis
proposed that the Duties, &c. in that Act be continued from and
after the several Purposes of the said Act, and the Acts therein
mentioned, be fully answered, compleated, and fulfilled, until the
Forty Thousand Pounds, by the Ways and Means aforesaid, and
by the Continuance of that Act, be repaid, replaced, and sunk, and
until the End of the next Session of Assembly that shall thereafter
happen.
All which is humbly submitted to the Consideration of your
Honourable House.
Signed per Order, Thomas Johnson, junr, Cl.
Which Report was read, and ordered to lie on the Table.
On Motion, Ordered, That no Public Claims be received by the
Committee of Accounts after next Tuesday, being the I6th Instant.
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