272 Assembly Proceedings, October 2-November 30, 1771.

Liber R. G.
1771

licensing Ordinary Keepers, Hawkers Pedlars, & Petty Chapmen
made at a Session of Assembly begun and held at the City of An-
napolis the twenty fourth Day of May seventeen hundred & sixty
eight; be and is hereby continued & shall remain in full Force for &
during the Term of one Year & to the End of the next Session of
Assembly that shall happen after the said one Year.

[Proviso.]

Provided, and be it hereby enacted that the several Lists & Pay-
ments required to be returned & made to the Treasurers of the
Western and Eastern Shores of this Province respectively by the
said Act, hereby continued, shall from henceforth be returned &
made to the Commissioners appointed or to be appointed by Virtue
of the Act entitled an Act for emitting Bills of Credit and other
Purposes therein mentioned, by the Times, in the Manner & under
the same Penalties as the same, by the Act hereby continued were to
be returned & paid to the Treasurers aforesaid, any Thing in the
said Act contained to the Contrary notwithstanding; And the Monies
which shall be paid to the Commissioners aforesaid by the Sheriffs
of the several & respective Counties of this Province shall be placed
out at Interest on Loan, or Bond with good Security in the same
Manner in every Respect as directed as to the Loan of Bills of
Credit, by the said Act

By the Lower House of
Assembly November 14.^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 i

No. 22
p. 138

An Act for the Relief of certain Prisoners in the several Jails therein
mentioned.

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

Whereas Francis Noble & Zachariah Bond youngest of Saint
Mary's County, Robert Horner, Barton Smoot and William Rye of
Charles County, John Miller of Calvert County, John Lawton,
Nicholas Davis (Son of Robert) Lawrence Robinson and Anthony
Smith of Ann Arundel County, Alexander Monroe, John Rourke,
Hugh Woods, Edward Robinson, George Wells, Richard Crutchedly,
Aquila Gostwick, Thomas Round Tree, William James, John Ser-
jeant, John Gordon Thompson, George Griffin, Owen Dunn, Charles
Lin, Basil Lucas and Nathaniel Smith of Baltimore County, John
Kendal, Thomas Cox Arrison, George Akers, William Crossley,
John Wilson, George Griffin, Michael Frissler, Joshua Bishop, David
Hellen & William Parker of Frederick County, Daniel Pierce, Samuel
Passmore, Guy Snow, John Adams alias Sprowle, and Christopher
Jones of Caecil County, Zachariah Wade and James Steward of
Prince Georges County, George Porter, John Culbreth, Solomon