No. 14

Liber H. S.
No. 1

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

An Act for the speedy and effectual Publication of the Laws of this
Province, and for the Encouragement of Jonas Green, of the City
of Annapolis, Printer.

[Allowance
to the
Printer for
Printing,
Stitching,
&c. the Laws
and Votes.]

Be it Enacted, by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary,
by and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's Governor,
and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the Authority
of the same, That there shall be allowed to Jonas Green, of the City
of Annapolis, Printer, the several and respective Sums of Current
Money, in the several Counties, within this Province, following,
to wit, In Baltimore County, Thirty Pounds; Anne-Arundel County,
Twenty-five Pounds Ten Shillings; Charles County, Twenty-three
Pounds Ten Shillings; Prince-George's County, Twenty-three
Pounds; Frederick County, Twenty Pounds Ten Shillings; Queen-
Anne's County, Twenty Pounds Five Shilling's; Saint Mary's County.
Nineteen Pounds Ten Shillings; Dorchester County, Eighteen
Pounds Ten Shillings; Kent County, Eighteen Pounds Five Shill-
ings; Talbot County, Seventeen Pounds Fifteen Shillings; Somerset
County, Seventeen Pounds Ten Shillings; Worcester County, Six-
teen Pounds Fifteen Shillings; Caecil County, Sixteen Pounds Ten
Shillings; and Calvert County, Eleven Pounds Ten Shillings; which
said respective Sums of Money the Justices of the several County
Courts, within this Province, are hereby impowered and required
to allow and assess in their respective County Levies annually, during
the Continuance of this Act, together with the Sheriff's Salary of
Five Pounds per Cent, for collecting the same. And the said several
Sums of Money, so to be allowed and assessed as aforesaid, shall be
collected by the Sheriff of each respective County, and yearly paid

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by them respectively, free from any Abatement or Dededuction, to
the said Jonas Green or his Order, for Printing, Stitching, Covering
with marble, blue Paper, Vellum, or Parchment, and delivering a
Copy of the public Laws, made this present Session of Assembly,
by the first Day of September this present Year, and the Votes and
Proceedings of the Lower House of Assembly of this present Ses-
sion, by the tenth Day of January, in the Year of our Lord 1757,
and also a Copy of the Laws of any future Session, within three
Months, and of the Votes and Proceedings of the Lower House of
Assembly, within four Months, respectively, after the End of every
such Session, during the Continuance of this Act, to the Governor,
and each Member of the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly,
and one Book of the Votes and Proceedings to the Clerk of each
House, and three Books of the Votes and Proceedings aforesaid
to the Clerks of the several and respective County Courts, for the
Perusal of the Inhabitants of the several and respective Counties,
and a Copy of the public Laws, during the Continuance of this Act,
to every Provincial and County Magistrate, and a Copy of each Law,