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shall issue for a new Election, as if the Person holding such Office,
Place of Profit, Pension, Gratuity or Reward, was naturally dead.
And be it further Enacted, That it shall not be lawful for any
Person, during the Time he shall be a Member of the Lower House
of Assembly, to ask, require, sollicit for, or any Ways endeavour to
procure, any Office or Place of Profit, or Pension, Gratuity or Re-
ward, from the said Lord Proprietary or the Government, for any
Relation, Friend, or other Person whatever, under the Penalty of
One Thousand Pounds Current Money; to be recovered and applied
as aforesaid.
Provided always, and it is hereby Enacted, That no Person, who
now is, or hereafter shall be, appointed a Justice of the Peace for
any County within this Province, by any Commission of the Peace,
shall for and by Reason of such Commission only, or the Execution
of any such Commission, or any Thing relating thereto, be disabled
from being elected a Member of the Lower House of Assembly,
or sitting and voting as a Member thereof; any Thing in this Act
to the contrary notwithstanding.
And whereas it is reasonable that the said Councillors and Dele-
gates, and the said Commissioners of the Provincial Courts, should
be paid annually for their Attendance on the Public Service: Be it
therefore Enacted, That the Clerks of each House of Assembly,
shall, at every Session which shall hereafter happen, lay before the
Committee of Accounts, when thereto required, an Account of the
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Liber No. 49
Dec. 8
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Number of Days which each Member of their respective House has
attended as a Member thereof during such Session; and the Clerk
of the Provincial Court shall also at every Session, lay before the
said Committee an Account of the Number of Days each Justice of
the said Court has attended thereon; and the said Committee, together
with so many Members of the Upper House, not exceeding Two, as
the said House shall think fit to appoint, shall be, and are hereby
appointed, a Committee to meet at the City of Annapolis, on the
second Monday in October yearly, then and there to assess and
apportion such Sums of Tobacco as shall appear, by the Returns of
the said Clerks, to be due to the Councillors, Delegates, and Com-
missioners aforesaid, together with the Sheriffs Salary for Collec-
tion thereof, by even and equal Portions, on the taxable Inhabitants
of this Province, according to the Account of the Lists thereof to be
returned for each Year; and particularly to order and direct how
much thereof shall be levied and collected by the Sheriff of each
respective County, and to what Person or Persons the said Sheriff
shall pay the same; and after the same is so assessed and apportioned,
the said Committee shall forthwith deliver to the Sheriff of Anne-
Arundel County, a fair List or Account thereof for each County,
indorsed for his Lordship's Service, and directed to the Sheriffs of
the several Counties respectively, who are hereby obliged to demand,
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