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Pamphlet
Md. Hist.
Soc., "Three
Bills which
did not pass,
1760"
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the averaged Rate of the two last preceding Years Collection; and
if it shall appear to them by such Estimate, that there will be a
Deficiency, that is, that the Sum of Five Thousand Nine Hundred
and Eighty- f our Pounds Fourteen Shillings, will not, by the Ways
and Means in this Act, and the Parts of the Acts herein mentioned
to be continued, be replaced, and the Sum of Thirty-four Thousand
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and Fifteen Pounds six Shillings paid in, in order to be sunk and
destroyed as aforesaid, by the Expiration of Eight Years, from the
Twentieth Day of June, which was in the Year of our Lord One
Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty-six, then and in such Case, the
said Commissioners or the Majority of them, or of the Survivors
of them, shall compute and ascertain what Rate, by way of addi-
tional Tax on Lands to be imposed in the same Manner with the
Land-Tax before imposed, will undoubtedly be sufficient to make
good such Deficiency as aforesaid, adding thereto the Sum of Five
Hundred Pounds. And the said Commissioners, who shall ascertain
the Rate of such additional Land-Tax, shall make out Certificates
of such Rate under their Hands and Seals to the Collector of the
Land-Tax of each respective County, and deliver the same by the
Twentieth Day of August, Seventeen Hundred and Sixty-three,
inclosed and indorsed for his Lordship's Service, to the Sheriff of
Anne-Arundel County, or his Deputy, under the Penalty of One
Hundred Pounds Current Money on each Commissioner who shall
ascertain the Rate aforesaid, and whose Hand and Seal shall not be
set and affix'd to such Certificate; to be recovered by Action of
Debt, Bill, Plaint, or Information; wherein no Essoin, Protection, or
Wager of Law, or more than one Imparlance, shall be allowed;
one Half thereof to be paid to the Informer, or him or them that
shall sue for the same; the other Half thereof to be paid to the
Commissioners or Trustees for emitting Bills of Credit aforesaid,
to be by them applied to the replacing and sinking the aforesaid, to
be by them applied to the replacing and sinking the aforesaid Forty
Thousand Pounds.
VI. And be it further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That
if the Accounts of the Commissioners or Trustees for emitting Bills
of Credit aforesaid, relating to the Monies received on the several
Ways and Means in this Act, and the Acts herein mentioned to be
continued, shall not, on the aforesaid First Monday of August, be in
such Order that the State of the Funds to be raised by the Ways
and Means aforesaid can be seen, or the Sums of Money received
thereon, known on View, then and in such Case each of such
Commissioners shall forfeit and pay the Sum of One Hundred
Pounds Current Money; to be recovered by Action of Debt, Bill,
Plaint, or Information, where no Essoin, Protection or Wager of
Law, or more than one Imparlance shall be allowed; one Half thereof
to the Informer, or him, her or them, that shall sue for the same ;
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