516 Assembly Proceedings, Feb. 23-May 22, 1756.

Liber H. S.
No. 1
[Clerks to
deliver
Accounts,
twice a year,
upon Oath,

into the

Loan-
Office.]

And be it further Enacted, That the several and respective Clerks
of the several and respective Courts aforesaid, for the Time being,
shall, and are hereby obliged and required twice in each Year, dur-
ing the Continuance of this Act, to make out upon Oath true and
distinct Accounts of all the Moneys he shall receive by Virtue of this
Act, and the same Accounts, so made out, shall return under their
Hands to the Commissioners of the Loan-Office, for the Time being,
on the twenty-fifth Day of July and the twenty-fifth Day of Febru-
ary, in each Year; and shall account with and pay unto the said Com-
missioners of the Loan-Office, from Time to Time, all such Sums of

[Their
Allowance.]

Money which they shall respectively receive by Virtue of this Act,
retaining to his and their own Use a Commission of Two Pounds
Ten Shillings per Centum, and no more, which shall be in full for
all the Services aforesaid. And the Commissioners of the Loan-
Office, for the Time being, shall, and are hereby directed and required
to keep separate and distinct Accounts of all such Sums of Money,
which they, from Time to Time, shall receive by Virtue of this Act.
And be it further Enacted, That the Office-Bonds of the several

[Their
Securities
answerable.]

and respective County Clerks, and their Securities in such Bonds,
shall be answerable for, and put in Suit for any Breaches of their
Duty committed against this Act.

p. 247

[Some
Clauses in a
former Act
continued.]

And be it further Enacted, That the several Clauses mentioned
and contained in an Act of Assembly of this Province, entituled,
An Act for his Majesty's Service, made at a Session of Assembly,
begun and held at the City of Annapolis, the seventeenth Day of
July, One thousand seven hundred and fifty-four, relating to the
several Duties, Licence-Money, Fines and Forfeitures, therein men-
tioned, and the Recovery thereof, except the Parts thereof relating to
the Duty on Servants imported for the Term of seven Years or up-
wards, and also except such Part or Parts thereof as are by this Act
repealed, and also the several Parts of the Acts of Assembly in the
said Act mentioned to be continued, shall be, and are hereby declared
to continue and be in full Force, from and after the several Purposes
in the said Act, and the Acts therein mentioned, are fully answered,
compleated, and fulfilled, until the aforesaid Sum of Forty Thousand
Pounds shall be thereby, and by the several Ways and Means in this
Act directed, repaid and replaced in the said Office, and until the
End of the next Session of Assembly, which shall thereafter happen.

And be it further Enacted That for each and every Negro im-

[Additional
Duty on
Negroes
imported.]

ported, or brought into this Province by Land or Water, the Importer
or Importers, and Persons bringing in such Negro or Negroes, shall
pay unto the Naval Officer, for the Time beign, belonging to the Port
or Place where they make their Entry, or where such Negro or
Negroes shall be brought, the Sum of Twenty Shillings Current
Money, over and above the Duties and Impositions already directed
and appointed to be paid by any former Act or Acts of Assembly of