The Lower House. 59

Post Meridiem

The House met.
William Murdock Esq^r Appeared in the House
Col.^o Hooper from the Upper House delivers to M.^r Speaker
the Bill Entituled an Act for Regulating Innholders and Ordinary
Keepers within this Province Indorsed /By the Upper House of
Assembly May 22.^d 1766. Read the first time and Ordered to lye
on the Table/ and thus /By the Upper House of Assembly May 26:^tt
1766. Read the Second time and will Pass with the Amendments
Annexed
Signed by Order U. Scott Clk Up: ho.

the Word Ordinary at the bottom of the first Page to be left
out in the Second Page in the fourth and fifth Lines leave out the
Words "at every November Court shall deliver to the several Justices"
and in their Place insert the following Viz.^t On or before the last
Day of February Yearly shall return to the Treasurers of the West-
ern and Eastern Shores Respectively Where the said Clerks shall
Officiate. Leave out in the same Page the Eighth Ninth tenth and

L. H. J.
Liber No. 52
May 26

Eleventh Lines and insert in their Place the following Clause. Be it
Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that all and every the Sum and
Sums of Money to be paid received and Collected by the Sheriffs
aforesaid by Virtue of this Act shall by them and every of them
be paid into the Hands of the Treasurer for the time being on or
before the last day of April every Year in manner following Viz.^t
all and every Sum and Sums of Money paid unto received and
Collected by the Sherriffs of the respetcive Countys on the Western
Shore shall be paid by the said Sherriffs into the Hands of the
Treasurers of the said Shore and all and every Sum and Sums of
Money paid unto received and Collected by the Sheriffs of the
respective Countys on the Eastern Shore shall be paid by the said
Sherriffs into the hands of the Treasurers of said Shore deducting
thereout the Salary aforesaid and all and every Sum and Sums
of Money to be paid as aforesaid into the hands of the said
Treasurers [respectively, shall be subject to such application, from
Time to Time, as the General Assembly of this Province, for the Time
being, shall direct and appoint; the said Treasurers] respectively
rotating a Commission of five pounds p Centum of all Moneys to
be Paid unto and received by them in Virtue of this Act

[Green's printed Votes and Proceedings, May Session 1766, p. 103,
includes above bracketed addition]

in the twentyeth Line of the third Page leave out the Word "is"
and insert "are" leave out the 2.^d Line of the fourth Page and the
Words "as aforesaid" in the third Line of the same Page and insert
the following Words "to be received by the Sherriff and Applied
in the manner above directed." In the Lines twenty third and twenty

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