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same to pay to the Commissioners, or Trustees aforesaid on or
before the last Day of May next after such Collection together with
his the said Edwards salary of five Pounds -p Cent thereon, as by
the said Act Relation thereunto being had may among other things
more fully appear, By virtue whereof the Sum of thirty seven
Pounds five Shillings, and one Penny three Farthings, current Mony
of the aforesaid Edward afterwards (to wit) on the tenth day of
May in the Year of Our Lord 1741. at the County aforesaid as
Sheriff as aforesaid of and from the several Taxables of the said
County did collect and levy, and which last mentioned Sum the said
Edward ought by the Duty of his said Office, after deducting
£1..15..5 3/4 thereout for his said Salary to have paid to the said
Commissioners or Trustees, on or before the last Day of the afore-
said May 1741: aforesaid
And the said Attorney General further saith, that during the
Continuance of the said Edward in the said Office, he the said
Edward by one other Act of Assembly of this Province, made and
passed at a Session of Assembly begun and held at the City of
Annapolis aforesaid the 7.th Day of July in the Year 1740. aforesaid
intituled, An Act for raising & issuing Money for maintaining his
Majesty's Forces to be raised in this Province, and for transporting
them to the Place of Rendezvous in the West Indies, was as Sheriff
of the said County at the County afores.d required and obliged by
virtue of his said Office to receive and collect from the several
Ordinary Keepers in the said County, the Sum of £15 Current
Money to be by them paid for obtaining Licences to keep Ordinary
in the County aforesaid, and the same to pay to the Commissioners
or Trustees aforesaid for which collecting and paying the aforesaid
Edward was by the said Act impowered to take and receive a Com-
mission after the Rate of five Pounds p: Centum, and no more as
by the said last mentioned Act Relation being thereunto had may
amongst other Things more fully appear: which Sum of fifteen
Pounds Current Money he the said Edward afterwards, to wit, on
the 10:th day of May in the year of our Lord 1741. aforesaid, at
the County aforesaid as Sheriff as aforesaid of and from the several
Ordinary Keepers in the said County did receive and collect and
which last mentioned Sum the said Edward ought by the Duty of
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U. H. J.
Liber No. 35
October 8
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his said Office after deducting fifteen Shillings Current Money
thereout for his said Commission to have paid to the said Com-
missioners or Trustees: nevertheless the aforesaid Edward the Sum
of £35..9..8: Current Money Residue of the aforesaid Sum of
£37..5--1 3/4 or the Sum of £14.. 5...0.. like Money Residue of the
aforesaid Sum of £15: Current Money to the Commissioners or
Trustees aforesaid (although often required) hath not paid, but
the same to them to pay hath always hitherto refused, and still doth
refuse contrary to the true Intent and Meaning of the Condition of
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