Acts. 445

virtue of the said Act which said Assessments to be made as afore-
said in virtue of this Act shall be Collected Levied accounted for
and paid to the said Trustees in the same manner as the Assessments
made in Virtue of the said Act were to have been Collected Levied
accounted for and paid and shall be applied by the said Trustees for
the time being or the Major part of them to and for the same use
Benefit and Charge as they were directed by the said Act to apply
the Tobacco which by the said Act was to have been Assessed and
Levied in the Year Seventeen hundred and Seventy one any thing
contained in the said Act to the Contrary in any wise notwithstanding

Liber R. G.
1770

p. 93

By the Lower House of
Assembly Nov.^r 16.^th 1770
Read & Assented to
Signed by Order
Jn^o Duckett Cl. Lo. Ho

On behalf of the right
Honourable the Lord
Proprietary of this Prov-
ince I will this be a Law
Rob.^t Eden.

By the Upper House of
Assembly 16^th November
1770 Read and Assented
to
Signed by Order
U Scott. Cl. Up. Ho

the great seal in
wax appendant

No. 9 An Act for the relief of certain Prisoners in the Several Jails therein
mentioned
Whereas James Gill and Elizabeth Phillips of Prince Georges
County, Allen Davis, John Mankin, William Green Peter Rigg of
Charles County Phillip Tanner, William Cargill James White John
Chamberlaine James Kennedy, Abraham Weagly, Frederick Deplants
Henry Sickles Valentine Shriner, John Balser, Frederick Becherer
William Hilleary of Frederick County Robert Spickernal of Calvert
County Thomas Cooke Jun.^r John Bailey Elias Smith John Driskell
Luke Mattingly Barbara Richardson, Henry Gary William Mitchell
of Saint Marys County Justice Hoshell and Samuel Smith of Ann
Arundel County John Ward son of Henry John Haddaburch Bor-
den Wilcox of Cecil County James Guffy William Potter Thomas
Treadway Levi Pottle Francis Casey Joshua Allender Basil Francis
William Walsh James Henderson Joseph Miller John Brown Wil-
liam Lock Moses Barney and Mayberry Holmes Jun.^r of Baltimore
County James Butler Isaac Parsons John Benny of Kent County
John Harrison Dorchester County Fenton Catten John Gornwell
Mark Hitchens Jesse Anderson James Morns George Benson Thomas
Jones Edward Pettit Thomas Wingate of Worcester County James
White Mathew Errickson Aaron Yoe Peter Green Henry Thompson
William Sylvester Charles Clymer of Queen Anns County appear
to this General Assembly to have respectively continued Prisoners
for Debt in the Custody of the Sheriffs of the respective Counties
aforesaid for a Considerable time past and Still continue in the like
Deplorable Circumstances not being able to redeem their Bodies
with all the Estate or Interest they have in the World which they
would readily surrender up and part with to their Several and re-

[Preamble,
with the
Names of
the Prisoners
relieved by
this Act.]