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656 Assembly Proceedings, Sept. 14-Oct. g, 1756.
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Liber H. S.
No. 1
[632 l. 2 s.
8 d. to re-
imburse the
Governor.]
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And be it further Enacted, That the Commissioners or Trustees
for Emitting Bills of Credit, established by Act of Assembly, shall
pay to his Excellency Horatio Sharpe, Esq; the Sum of Six Hun-
dred and Thirty Pounds Two Shillings and Eight Pence in Bills of
Credit, out of the aforesaid Twenty-five Thousand Pounds, to reim-
burse him the Charge of subsisting and paying the Rangers employed
last Spring on the Frontier of this Province.
And the Commissioners or Trustees aforesaid, are hereby directed
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[Commis-
sioners to
keep distinct
Accounts.]
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to keep particular and distinct Accounts of all such Sums of Money
as they shall pay in Virtue of this Act.
4.th October 1756 On behalf of the Right 8th. October 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 1 will this be a Law assembly
Signed p order Hor.o Sharpe Signed p order
MMacnemara Cl lo ho JRoss Cl Up Ho.
The Great Seal
in Wax Appand.t
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No. 2
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An Act impowering the Justices of Somerset County to levy not
exceeding Twenty Thousand Pounds of Tobacco upon the taxable
Inhabitants of said County, to be applied to the Purpose therein
directed.
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[Preamble.]
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Whereas the Ferry of Vienna, upon the River Nanticoke, is a very
public and convenient Passage, and forasmuch as the Road or Cause-
way through Vienna Marsh in Somerset County is of great Length,
and too Burthensome upon the Inhabitants of the said County adja-
cent thereto :
Be it therefore Enacted, by the Right Honourable the Lord Pro-
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[20,000 lbs.
of Tobacco
to be levied
in Somerset
County.]
p. 297
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prietary, 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 it shall and may be lawful, and the Jus-
tices of the County Court of Somerset are hereby authorized, impow-
ered, and required, at the next November Court to be held for that
County, to levy on the taxable Inhabitants of the same County, a
Quantity not exceeding Twenty Thousand Pounds of Tobacco,
exclusive of the Sheriff's Salary of Five per Centum for collecting
the same, to be paid in such Manner as other Public and County
Levies are now paid and discharged, for the making and compleating
a good, commodious, and convenient Road and Causeway through
the said Vienna Marsh, from the last Land down to the River Nanti-
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[For making
a Causeway.]
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coke, opposite to Vienna-Town, in Dorchester County; the said Road
or Causeway to have a good and sufficient Foundation of Wood,
raised to an Heighth not to be overflowed by the Water from the
said River, and of Twelve Feet wide at the least upon the Top, well
sanded, with one or more turning Places thereon. And the said
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