Acts. 199

required to allow and 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.
Provided always, and be it hereby Enacted, That it shall and

Liber H. S.
No. 1

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
preventing 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.

[To be paid
agreeable to
the Regula-
tion of Coin
in 1753.]

Provided also, That it shall and may be lawful for the Sheriffs
of the several and respective Counties respectively, and they are
hereby required not to pay to the said Jonas Green the said respective
Sums of Money herein before mentioned, or any Part thereof, to
be assessed and levied for his Use, for his Salary for this present
or any future Year, during the Continuance of this Act, unless it
shall be made appear to them by a Certificate or Receipt from the
Sheriff of Anne-Arundel County, for the Time being, That the
Public Laws, and the Votes and Proceedings of this Session, and
every future Session or Convention, during the Continuance of this
Act, were printed and delivered to him within the respective Times
herein before directed; any Thing herein before contained to the
contrary, in any wise, notwithstanding.

p. 416

[His duty
about the
delivering
the Laws,
&c.]

And be it further Enacted, That the several and respective Sheriffs
within this Province, shall, and they are hereby directed and required
to receive and forward the said Laws, with the Votes and Proceed-
ings aforesaid, to the Clerks of the several County Courts, and
Members of each House of Assembly, as Public Letters are by the
Laws of this Province directed to be forwarded, and under the like
Penalty; to be recovered and applied in like Manner.

[Sheriffs to
forward
them as
Public
Letters.]

And whereas it appears to this present General Assembly, That
the said Jonas Green hath done divers Services as Printer for this
Province, for which he hath not heretofore had any Allowance: Be it
therefore Enacted, That the Commissioners of the Loan-Office for
the Time being, shall and do pay to the said Jonas Green, or his
Order, the Sum of Five Hundred Pounds Current Money, in full
Satisfaction for such his Services; which said Sum of Five Hundred
Pounds Current Money, the said Commissioners are hereby directed
and required to take out of the Sum of Nineteen Hundred and
Ninety-nine Pounds Twelve Shillings, paid into the said Office by
Virtue of the Act, entituled, An Act for his Majesty's Service,
passed at a Session of Assembly begun and held at Annapolis the

[An Allow-
ance for past
Services.]