Acts. 327

Kent County, Eighteen Pounds Five Shillings: Talbot County,
Seventeen Pounds Fifteen Shillings: Somerset County, Seventeen
Pounds Ten Shillings; Worcester County, Sixteen Pounds Fifteen
Shillings: Caecil County, Sixteen Pounds Ten Shillings: Calvert
County, Eleven Pounds Ten Shillings; which said respective Sums

of Money, the Jueticee of the several County Courts, within this

Province, are hereby impowered and required to allow and assess
in their next respective County Levies, together with the Sheriff's
Salary of Five Pounds per Cent for Collecting the same. And the
said several Sums of Money, so to be allowed and assessed as afore-
said, shall be collected by the respective Sheriffs and paid by them
respectively, free from any Abatement or Deduction, to the said
Jonas Green, or his Order.

Liber H. S.
No. 1

And whereas the last Law for the Encouragement of the said
Jonas Green, did expire the Twentieth Day of December, 1758,
whereby the said Jonas Green had no Allowance from this Province
for the Year 1759; Be it therefore Enacted, That there shall be

[His Allow-
ance for the
year 1759.]

allowed to the said Jonas Green, for his Services in the said Year,
the several and respective Sums of Current Money, in the several
Counties within this Province, following, to wit, In Baltimore
County, Twenty-four Pounds Five Shillings; Anne-Arundel County,
Twenty Pounds; Charles County, Eighteen Pounds Ten Shillings :
Prince-George's County, Eighteen Pounds; Frederick County, Six-
teen Pounds Five Shillings; Queen- Anne's County, Fifteen Pounds
Fifteen Shillings; Saint Mary's County, Fourteen Pounds Ten
Shillings: Dorchester County, Fourteen Pounds: Kent County,
Thirteen Pounds Fifteen Shillings; Talbot County, Twelve Pounds
Ten Shillings; Somerset County, Eleven Pounds Fifteen Shillings :
Worcester County, Eleven Pounds Five Shillings; Caecil County,
Eleven Pounds; And Calvert County, Eight Pounds Ten Shillings ;
which said respective Sums of Money last mentioned, the said
Justices of the several County Courts within this Province, are
hereby impowered and required to assess in their next respective
County Levies, and shall be by the respective Sheriffs collected and
paid to the said Jonas Green, in Manner and Form aforesaid.

p. 385

Provided always, and be it hereby Enacted, That it shall and
may be lawful for the Taxable Inhabitants of this Province, upon
whom the above Sums of Money shall be assessed, to discharge and
pay the same in Gold and Silver, at the same Rates as by the Act,
entituled, An Act for amending the Staple of Tobacco, for prevent-
ing Frauds in his Majesty's Customs, and for the Limitation of
Officers Fees, made at a Session of Assembly, begun and held at the
City of Annapolis the second Day of October, in the Year of our
Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty-three, Gold and
Silver is directed to be received in all Payments made in Virtue of

that Act.

[Proviso, as
to the
Specie he
may be paid
in.]