692 Assembly Proceedings, Mar. 28-May 13, 1758.

Liber H. S.
No. 1

whereby the intended Purposes and Benefits of the said Act are un-
answered by the same : It is therefore prayed, That it may be Enacted,

[Justices of
Baltimore
to Levy
275 l. in
St. George's
Parish.]

And be it Enacted, by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary,
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 the Justices of Baltimore County Court, at their
adjourned March Court to be held on the Eighth Day of May next,
shall, and they are hereby directed and impowered to assess and levy
on the taxable Inhabitants of St. George's Parish in the said County,
the Sum of Two Hundred and Seventy-five Pounds Current Money,
being the Sum directed by the above recited Act to be assessed and
levied at November Court, Seventeen Hundred and Fifty-seven.
And the said Justices, after such Assessment so made, shall, and
they are hereby obliged immediately to deliver the same to the Sheriff
of Baltimore County, who is by this Act directed and impowered to
demand the same within Fifteen Days after the Receipt of such
Assessment, and shall then proceed to collect and pay the same this
present Year, in the same Manner, to all Intents and Purposes, as if
the said Assessment had been made at November Court, Seventeen
Hundred and Fifty-seven; any Thing in the said Act, or any other
Law, Custom, or Usage, to the contrary in any wise, notwithstanding.

And it being further represented by the Petition of the said Vestry,
That at November Court last an Assessment of Ten Pounds of
Tobacco per Poll was laid on the taxable Inhabitants of the said
Parish, and that the same will not now be wanting for the Use and
Purposes intended by the said Assessment :

[Part of
10 per Poll
Assessment.]

Be it therefore Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That the
Sheriff of Baltimore County shall release to and discharge the taxable
Inhabitants of the said Parish from Seven Pounds of the said Ten
Pounds of Tobacco per Poll, so levied and assessed on them; and the
said Sheriff shall be only accountable to the Vestry of the said Parish
for the Quantity of Three Pounds of Tobacco per Poll for this
present Year, notwithstanding the Assessment of Ten Pounds of
Tobacco per Poll made as aforesaid, and demanded by the said
Sheriff.

21st April 1758
Read and assented to
By the Lower house of
assembly
Signed p order
MMacnemara Cl lo ho

On behalf of the Right
Honourable the Lord
Proprietary of this Prov-
ince I will this be a Law.
Hor.^o Sharpe

21.st April 1758
Read and assented to
by the Upper House of
assembly
Signed p order
JRoss Cl Up Ho

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No. 3

p. 359

An Act to make it Penal to Forge or Counterfeit the Bills of Credit
of Virginia, Pennsylvania, New- York, East or West Jerseys, or
the Three Lower Counties on Delaware, called New-Castle, Kent