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L. H. J.
Liber No. 51
April 8
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to be recovered and applied as herein before directed: And the
several Sheriffs are hereby required to forward them, in the same
Manner, as other Public Letters are directed by Law to be for-
warded, under the Penalty aforesaid.
XC. And whereas it may be necessary to make Provision for
Intelligence and other Contingencies, which it is impossible par-
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ticularly to express and specify in this Act; Be it further Enacted,
by the Authority aforesaid, That it shall and may be lawful to and
for the Governor or Commander in Chief of this Province, for the
Time being, from Time to Time, during the Continuance of this
Act, to draw his Order or Orders on the Agents aforesaid, for the
Purposes aforesaid, for any Sum or Sums of Money not exceeding,
in the Whole, the Sum of Fifty Pounds Current Money, payable to
such Person or Persons as he shall think fit; and the said Agents
are hereby directed and required to pay all such Orders so as aforesaid
drawn, the Governor, or Commander in Chief of this Province, for
the Time being, expressing in such Order the particular Use or
Purpose for which the same is, or shall be drawn.
XCI. And be it further Enacted, That if by the Rates and Sums
of Money, by this Act imposed for Two Years successively, more
Money shall be paid into the Loan-Office than shall be sufficient to
sink and replace the Sums of Money, in Bills of Credit, by this Act
directed to be emitted and paid out, then all such Overplus shall be
applied as the General Assembly of this Province shall direct; but if it
shall appear upon Examination (which the said Commissioners or
Trustees are hereby obliged and directed to make) that by the said
Rates, Assessments and Sums of Money, to be imposed as afore-
said, a sufficient Sum of Money for the Purposes aforesaid shall
not be raised, then in such Case, all the Parts of this Act, any
way relating to the Rates, Assessments, and Sums of Money herein
before imposed, shall be and are hereby continued for one other
Year; and the said Commissioners or Trustees shall, and they are
hereby strictly enjoined and required to signify such Deficiency, by
Writing under their Hands, to the respective Commissioners ap-
pointed by this Act for each County, which Notice, by Writing, the
said Commissioners or Trustees shall deliver under Cover directed
to the said County Commissioners, and indorsed for his Lordship's
Service, to the Sheriff of Anne-Arundel County, on or before the
Tenth Day of January, which shall be in the Year of our Lord
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Seventeen Hundred and Sixty-three, on Pain of forfeiting, for every
Neglect or Omission thereof, the Sum of Two Hundred Pounds
Current Money each Commissioner, to be recovered and applied
as herein before directed. And the seevral Sheriffs of this Province
are hereby required to forward the same as Public Letters are by
Law directed to be forwarded, on Pain of forfeiting, for every
Neglect or Omission thereof, the Sum of Two Hundred Pounds
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