142 Assembly Proceedings, April 8-May 9, 1757.

Liber H. S.
No. 1

p. 332

[Commis-
sioners to
pay several
Persons for
Sums ex-
pended for
the Public
Service.]

Spoon, and Tobias Stansbury; and it is thought just and reasonable
that the said Persons should be speedily reimbursed:
Be it therefore Enacted, by the Right Honourable the Lord Pro-
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 for the Com-
missioners or Trustees, for emitting Bills of Credit, established by
Act of Assembly, and they are hereby directed and required to pay
unto the said Tobias Stansbury the Sum of Fifteen Shillings and
Eight Pence: To the said David Ross the Sum of Eighty Pounds

and Two Pence: To the said Samuel Chapman the Sum of One

Hundred and Twelve Pounds Three Shillings and Ten Pence: To
the said Andrew Staiger the Sum of Four Pounds and Eight Pence :
To the said William Nicholson the Sum of Two Pounds Twelve
Shillings and Six Pence: To the said Nicholas Rogers the Sum of
Five Pounds Five Shillings: To the said Daniel Barnett the Sum
of Five Pounds Two Shillings and Ten Pence: To the said John
Ridgely the Sum of One Pound Nineteen Shillings and Three Pence :
To the said Robert Tives the Sum of One Pound Four Shillings : To
the said James Richard the Sum of Four Pounds Four Shillings : To
the said Frederick Freeman the Sum of Twelve Shillings: And to
the said Anne Spoon the Sum of Twelve Shillings. And the said
Commissioners or Trustees shall, and they are hereby required to

[To keep fair
Accounts.]

keep fair and distinct Accounts of all the said Payments, and of all
such Sum or Sums of Money as herein after is directed to be paid
unto them, for replacing the same.

[The Man-
ner of re-
placing the
Money in
the Office.]

And for the more speedy Repayment and Replacing the aforesaid
Sums of Money into the Office of the said Commissioners; Be it
Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the Committee appointed
by the Act, entituled, An Act for the Assessment and Payment of the
Public Charge of this Province, made at a Session of Assembly,
begun and held at the City of Annapolis on the Twenty-third Day
of February, in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred
and Fiftv-six, shall, and they are hereby impowered and directed, at
the Time of appointing the next Public Levy, to apportion and direct,
according to the Number of Taxables returned for this Year, what
Part of the Amount of the aforesaid Sums shall be paid by each
County; and an Account thereof cause to be delivered to the several
Sheriffs respectively, together with their Distribution and Apportion-
ment of the Public Levy.

p. 333

[Sheriffs to
collect, and
pay the
same.]

And be it further Enacted, That the several Sheriffs aforesaid
shall, and they are hereby required to collect and levy the said Sums
in such Manner as the County Levies are usually collected, together
with a Salary of Five per Cent, for their Trouble; and shall pay the
same to the Commissioners or Trustees aforesaid on or before the
last Day of July, which shall be in the Year of our Lord One