Acts. 327

same that it shall and may be Lawful to and for the Justices of
Dorchester County Court for the time being and they are hereby
Authorised impowered and required at the time of Laying their
County Levy in the Years Seventeen hundred and Seventy, Seven-
teen hundred and seventy one and Seventeen hundred & Seventy two
to assess and Levy on the Taxable Inhabitants of the said County
by three Equal Assessments a Quantity of Tobacco not exceeding
Two hundred thousand Pounds of Tobacco together with the Sheriffs
Salary of Five Per Cent for collection which said Quantity of To-
bacco so to be Assessed and Levied shall be collected by the Sheriff
of the said County who is hereby required and directed to pay the
same to the Commissioners hereinafter named or the Major part
of them or their Order for the use and purpose of erecting building
finishing and Completing a New Court House for the said County
on the most Convenient part of the Public Ground where the Present
Court House stands

Liber R. G.
1770
exceeding
200,000 lb.
of Tobacco,
to be paid to
Commission-
ers herein-
after
named;]

Provided always and be it Enacted that it Shall and may be Lawful
for the Several and respective Inhabitants of the said County to Pay
and Discharge the said Quantity of Tobacco so as aforesaid to be
Assessed and Levied in money in the same Manner and at the same
rate that they are now enabled to pay and discharge the Public &
County Levy

[which may
be dis-
charged as
the Publick
and County
Levy.]

And be it Enacted by the Advice Consent and Authority aforesaid
that Mess.^rs Charles Dickinson, Robert Goldsborough, William
Ennalls Robert Harrison & John Goldsborough Junior be and are
hereby Appointed Commissioners and as such they or the Major part
of them are Empowered and Directed to meet at the Town of Cam-
bridge in the said County on or before the fifteenth Day of March
next and afterwards as they shall see Occasion in Order to treat and
agree with an Undertaker or undertakers Workman or Workmen

[Commis-
sioners
nominated,
who may

agree with

Workmen,
&c.]

to build finish & Complete the Court House so as aforesaid to be
Erected and to do and perform such other matters and things relative
to the same as they shall Judge necessary

p. 66

And be it further Enacted that such New Court House when built
and Completed shall thence afterwards be held taken and used as
the Proper Court House of the said County and the Clerk for the
time being of the said County Court is hereby Authorised Directed
and required immediately after the finishing and Completing the
same to remove or cause to be Removed to a Convenient Room or
apartment for that Purpose to be provided therein from the County
Office in the Court house that now is all the Books Rolls Papers and
other Records to the said County or County Court belonging And
the said Justices for the time being shall direct and cause a list of all
the said Records and Books to be made and Signed by the said Clerk
and entered upon Record among their Proceedings

[Such new
Court-
House,
when fin-
ished, to be
proper
Court-House
of the
County, &c.]