Acts. 259

No. 18 An Additional Supplementary Act to the Act entitled an Act
for the Relief of the Poor within the several Counties therein
mentioned.

Liber R. G.
1771

Whereas by the Act entitled a Supplementary Act to the Act
entitled an Act for the Relief of the Poor within the several Coun-
ties therein mentioned: That the Justices of Frederick County
Court, for the Time being, were thereby required & empowered
upon the Application of the Trustees for the Poor or the Major
Part of them to assess & levy on the Taxable Inhabitants of the
said County, a Quantity not exceeding ten Pounds of Tobacco by
the Poll in the Years seventeen hundred & seventy & seventeen
hundred & seventy one together with the Sheriff's Salary of five
per Cent for Collection; but it appearing that for the Want of
timely Notice of the said Act no Part of the above Assessments
as by the said Act required was levyed by the Justices of said County
at their November Court in the Year seventeen hundred & seventy.

Be it therefore enacted by the Right Honorable the Lord Pro-
prietary by & with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's Gov-

[Preamble,
reciting Part
of a former
Act.]

ernor & the Upper & Lower Houses of Assembly & the Authority
of the same, That the Justices of Frederick County shall & may &
they are hereby required to levy on the Taxable Inhabitants of the
said County at their November Court in this present Year a Quan-
tity not exceeding twenty Pounds of Tobacco by the Poll, together
with the Sheriffs Salary of five per Cent for collecting the same &

[Justices of
Frederick
County to
levy 20 ft of
Tobacco
per Poll]

no further or other Assessments shall be made by the same Justices
by Virtue of the said above recited Act, which said Assessment of
twenty Pounds of Tobacco by the Poll to be made as aforesaid in

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Virtue of this Act shall be collected levied accounted for & 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, ac-
counted for and paid and shall be applied by the said Trustees for
the Time being, or the Major Part of them, to & 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
& levied in the Years seventeen hundred & seventy and seventeen
hundred & seventy one, any Thing contained in the said Act to the
Contrary in any Wise notwithstanding.

[this present
year, to
remedy a
former
Omission,
&c.]

By the Lower House of
Assembly Nov.^r 12.^th
1771. Read & assented to.
Signed by Order,
Jn.^o Duckett Cl. Lo. Ho.

On Behalf of the Right
Honble the Lord Pro-
prietary of this Province,
I Will this be a Law.
Rob^t Eden

By the Upper House of
Assembly Nov.^r 16.^th
1771. Read & assented to.
Signed by Order,
U Scott Cl. Up. Ho.

The Great Seal
in Wax appendant