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Be it Therefore Enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Pro-
prietary by and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordships Gov-
ernor and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly and the
Authority of the same That the Clerk of Queen Anne's County
shall upon Application deliver to any one Vestryman of the Parish
aforesaid a Certificate under his hand of the Number of the Taxables
in that part thereof which Lies in Queen Anne's County for this
Present Year and for the Years seventeen Hundred and seventy and
seventeen Hundred & seventy one And also how much of the said
Sums of Thirty Thousand and Eighty Thousand Pounds of Tobacco
were Assessed in Pursuance of the said recited Act which Certificate
shall by some one Vestryman of the said Parish be delivered to the
Clerk of Talbot County who together with the Justices of the same
County shall on Notice from any one Vestryman of the said Parish
meet at the Court House in the said County on the Second Day of
January next under the Penalty of Five Hundred pounds of Tobacco
each and the said Clerk of Talbot County shall then and there deliver
to any Vestryman of the said Parish who shall be there present a
Certificate of the Number of Taxables for this Present year in that
part of the said Parish which Lieth in the said County and the said
Justices or any two of them shall then and there Assess on the
Taxable Inhabitants of that part of the said Parish which Lieth in
Talbot County one half of so much Tobacco as shall be equal to the
Quantity which ought to have been Levied on Them by the first and
second Assessments directed to be made by the said recited Act and
also their Proportional Part of one Third Part of the aforesaid Sum
of One Hundred and sixty Thousand pounds of Tobacco together
with a Salary of Five per Cent to the Sheriff for collecting and pay-
ing the same a Certificate of which Assessment the Clerk of the said
County shall forthwith Deliver to the Sheriff thereof
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[An assess-
ment of one
Half the
Quantity of
Tobacco to
be levied this
present Year,
on the In-
habitants of
that part of
St. Paul's
Parish lying
in Talbot
County, in
Proportion
to an
Assessment
levied by the
above recited
Act, on the
Inhabitants
of said Par-
ish, in Queen
Anne's
County, and
also a Pro-
portion of
One Third
Part of
160,000 lb.
Tobacco
more.]
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And be it further Enacted That the Justices of Talbot County
shall at their next Court to be held in November Assess on the Tax-
able Inhabitants of that Part of the aforesaid Parish which Lieth in
the said County the other half of the said Sum of Tobacco which
ought to have been assessed and Levied on them by the first & second
Assessments directed by the said recited Act
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[The other
Half to be
levied in
Nov. Court
1770.]
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And be it further Enacted That three Justices of Queen Anne's
County and the Clerk thereof upon Notice from any one Vestryman
of the said Parish shall meet at the Court House in the said County
on the Eleventh day of January next under the Penalty of Five
Hundred pounds of Tobacco each and upon the Certificate aforesaid
of the Number of Taxables for this present Year in that part of
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[The Jus-
tices, of
Queen
Anne's
County, with
the Clerk, to
meet .....
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