Acts. 545

Inhabitants of this Province, by an equal Levy and Assessment,
according to the Lists to be returned this present Year.

And be it further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That the

Liber H. S.
No. 1

Honourable Colonel Charles Hammond, Samuel Chamberlaine, and
Philip Thomas, Esquires, Colonel Benjamin Tasker, Richard Lee,
and Benedict Calvert, Esquires, of the Upper House, and the Hon-
ourable Philip Hammond, Robert Lloyd, John Goldsborough,
Matthew Tilghman, Walter Dulany, and John Gassaway, Esquires,
of the Lower House of Assembly, or the Survivors of them, or
the major Part of them, be and are hereby appointed a Committee
to meet together, at the City of Annapolis, on the Third Day of
October next, then and there to assess and apportion the aforesaid
Sums of Seven hundred and sixty-nine Pounds six Shillings and
four Pence Current Money, and Two millions three hundred and
two thousand nine hundred and ninety-eight Pounds of Tobacco,
with the Salary aforesaid thereon, by even and equal Portions, on
the taxable Inhabitants aforesaid, and particularly to order and
direct how much thereof shall be levied and collected by the Sheriff
of each respective County, and to what Persons, being public Credit-
ors, the respective Sheriffs shall pay the same; and a fair Journal of
all and singular their Proceedings in the Premisses to make and
deliver to the Clerk of the Lower House of Assembly, to be laid
before the next General Assembly thereafter, to be held for this
Province.

And be it further Enacted, That the said Committee, or the Sur-

[A Com-
mittee ap-
pointed to
meet, to
assess and
apportion
one Moiety
of the Public
Levy.]

p. 284

vivors of them, or the major Part of them, shall, and they are hereby
appointed and directed to meet again, at the City of Annapolis, on
the third Tuesday of October, which shall be in the Year of our
Lord One thousand seven hundred and fifty-seven, then and there
to assess and apportion the Sums of Seven hundred and sixty-nine
Pounds six Shillings and four Pence Current Money, and Two
Millions three hundred and two thousand nine hundred and ninety-
eight Pounds of Tobacco, the other Moiety of the Amount of the
Journal of Accounts, assented to this present Session of Assembly,
with the Salary aforesaid thereon, by even and equal Portions, on the
taxable Inhabitants of this Province, according to the Amount of
the Lists thereof to be returned for that Year, and particularly to
order and direct how much thereof shall be levied and collected by
the Sheriffs of each respective County, and to what Persons, being
public Creditors, the respective Sheriffs shall pay the same; and a
fair Journal as aforesaid to make and deliver as aforesaid, to be laid
before the next General Assembly, that shall be thereafter held for
this Province.

[A Com-
mittee ap-
pointed to
meet again,
in 1757, to
assess and
apportion
the other
Moiety of
the Public
Levy.]