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vions of any Kind, for Troops in his Majesty's Service, there shall
be paid the following Rates of Carriage to the Owner or Owners of
all such Carriages as shall be employed in such Services, viz. For
the Hire of every Cart, with Four Horses, and a Driver, the Sum
of Twelve Shillings Current Money per Day, and for the Hire of
every Waggon, with Four Horses, and a Driver, the Sum of Fifteen
Shillings Current Money per Day, during the Time such Cart or
Waggon shall be detained or employed in his Majesty's Service.
Provided always, and it is the true Intent and Meaning of this Act,
that where any Cart or Waggon shall be discharged from the Service
for which they were pressed, at any Distance from the Place of
Abode of the Owner thereof, that then the said Owner or Owners
shall be paid for the Hire of their said Cart or Waggon after the
Rate of Six Pence per Mile for every Mile they shall be obliged to
travel from the Place of their Discharge to their respective Places
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L. H. J.
Liber No. 51
April 8
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of Abode.
LXXXVIII. And be it further Enacted by the Authority afore-
said, That no Officer or Commander of any Company, or Person,
employing any Cart or Waggon in Virtue of this Act, shall constrain
or compel the Owner or Driver of such Cart or Waggon to travel
more than Fifteen Miles in any one Day, on Pain of forfeiting the
Sum of Five Pounds Current Money, to be recovered before One
Provincial Justice, or Two Justices of the Peace where the Offence
shall be committed, and applied as the Fines and Forfeitures herein
before are directed to be applied. Provided nevertheless, That if the
Exigency of the Service should make it necessary for any Carriage,
employed within this Province in his Majesty's Service, to travel
more than Fifteen Miles in one Day, then and in such Case the
Owner or Driver of such Carriage shall proceed farther, but for
every Mile that he shall travel that Day with the Carriage, above the
Fifteen Miles, he may demand, and shall receive, the Sum of One
Shilling and four Pence per Mile if a Waggon, and One Shilling
per Mile if a Cart, over and above the respective Sums before
allowed for a Day's Hire.
LXXXIX. And be it further Enacted, That the Printer to this
Province shall Print and Stitch in blue Paper Covers, One Hundred
and Sixty-eight Copies of this Act, and make them up into Fourteen
Parcels, of Twelve Copies each, directed to the Commissioners
named in this Act, for the several Counties, and each Commissioner
shall keep one of the said Copies for his own Use, and the others
shall, by the said Commissioners, be distributed to the Assessors
that shall be nominated and appointed for the several Divisions or
Districts in their respective Counties; which Parcels the Printer shall
have indorsed for his Lordship's Service, and delivered to the Sheriff
of Anne-Arundel County, on or before the Thirtieth Day of August
next, under the Penalty of One Hundred Pounds Current Money;
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