Arts. 541

And whereas in and by an Act of Assembly, entituled, An Act for
granting a Supply of Forty Thousand Pounds Current Money for
his Majesty's Service, and striking Thirty-four Thousand and Fif-
teen Pounds six Shillings thereof, in Bills of Credit, and raising a
Fund for sinking the same, made and passed this present Session
of Assembly, it is, amongst other Things, Enacted, that the Printer,
who shall print and stamp the blank Bills of Credit thereby directed
to be printed; stamped, emitted and made current, shall be allowed
in the County Levies of this Province Two hundred Pounds Current
Money :

Be it therefore Enacted, That there shall be allowed to the Person,

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who shall be employed by the Commissioners or Trustees for emitting
the Bills of Credit, established by Act of Assembly, to print and
stamp the said blank Bills, the several and respective Sums of Cur-
rent Money, in the several Counties, within this Province, to wit,
In Baltimore County, Twenty-three Pounds; Anne-Arundel County,
Nineteen Pounds; Charles County, Seventeen Pounds Ten Shillings ;
Prince George's County, Seventeen Pounds Five Shillings; Frederick
County, Fifteen Pounds Five Shillings; Queen-Anne's County, Fif-
teen Pounds; St. Mary's County, Fourteen Pounds; Dorchester
County, Thirteen Pounds Ten Shillings; Kent County Thirteen
Pounds Five Shillings; Talbot County, Eleven Pounds Ten Shillings

[200 1. to be
allowed the
Printer for
Printing the
Bills of
Credit.]

Somerset County, Eleven Pounds Five Shillings; Worcester County,
Eleven Pounds; Caecil County, Ten Pounds ten Shillings; Calvert
County, Eight Pounds: Which said respective last aforesaid Sums
of Money, the Justices of the several County Courts, within this
Province, are hereby impowered and directed to allow and assess in
their next respective County Levies, together with the Sheriffs Salary
of Five Pounds per Cent, for collecting the same. And the said
several last aforesaid Sums of Money, so to be allowed and assessed
as aforesaid, shall be collected, in Manner aforesaid, by the Sheriff
of each respective County, and by them respectively paid to the
Person, who shall be, as aforesaid, employed to print and stamp the
said Bills of Credit, or his Order, on or before the twentieth Day of
June, which shall be in the Year One thousand seven hundred and
fifty-seven, free from any Abatement or Deduction whatever.

p. 279

This Act to continue to the twentieth Day of December, which shall
be in the Year One thousand seven hundred and fifty-seven.

21st May 1756 On behalf of the Right 21^st May 1756
Read and assented to Honourable the Lord Read and assented to
by the Lower house of Proprietary of this Prov- by the Upper house of
assembly ince I will this be a Law assembly
Signed p order Hor.^o Sharpe Signed p order
MMacnemara Cl lo ho. JRoss Cl Up Ho.

[Continu-
ance.]

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