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And be it enacted that the Justices of Caroline County shall be
and they are hereby authorized and required to Assess and Levy
on the Taxable Inhabitants of the said County with the County and
Public Levy as much Tobacco as will pay for the Purchase or Valua-
tion of the Land aforesaid together with the sheriffs salary of five
per Centum for Collection which said Quantity of Tobacco shall
be collected by the Sheriff of the said County in the same Manner as
other Public and County Levys are by Law collected and the said
Tobacco when collected shall be paid by the said Sheriff to such
Person or Persons as the Commissioners aforesaid or the Major
Part of them shall order and direct —
And whereas the Taxable Inhabitants in that Part of Dorchester
County erected into Caroline County have paid seventy thousand
Pounds of Tobacco towards the building of the Court House in
Cambridge in Dorchester County. And for as much as Justice
requires that the said seventy thousand Pounds of Tobacco should
be refunded and applied towards the Building the Court House and
Prison now to be erected in Caroline County
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Liber R. G.
1773
And to levy
as much To-
bacco as will
pay for the
Purchase
thereof.]
p. 251
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Be it therefore enacted that the Justices of Dorchester County
shall be and they are hereby Authorized and required to Assess and
Levy with their Public and County Levy by two equal Assessments
the next Year and the Year afterwards the Quantity of Seventy Thou-
sand Pounds of Tobacco upon the Taxable Inhabitants of Dor-
chester County together with the sheriffs salary of five per Centum
for Collection which said Quantity of Tobacco so to be assessed
and levied shall be collected by the sheriff of Dorchester from the
Taxable Inhabitants thereof in the same Manner as other Public
and County Levies are by Law collected and the said Tobacco when
collected shall be paid by the said Sheriff to the Commissioners
aforesaid and shall be by them applied towards Building the Court
House and Prison in Caroline County aforesaid —
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[Justices of
Dorchester
County to
levy 70000
lb. of To-
bacco to-
wards build-
ing a Court-
House and
Prison in
Caroline
County.]
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And be it enacted that the Justices of Caroline County shall be
and they are hereby Authorized and required to Assess and Levy
with the Public and County Levy by three equal Assessments the
next Year and the two succeeding Years the Quantity of two hun-
dred thousand Pounds of Tobacco together with the sheriffs salary
of five per Centum for Collection which said Tobacco so to be
Assessed and Levied shall be collected by the Sheriff of Caroline
County from the Taxable Inhabitants of the said County in the
same Manner as other Public and County Levies are by Law collected
which said Tobacco when collected shall be paid by the said Sheriff
to the Commissioners aforesaid and applied by them towards build-
ing the Court House and Prison aforesaid for the said County
And whereas the aforesaid Quantity of seventy thousand Pounds
of Tobacco to be refunded as aforesaid and applied as aforesaid
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[Justices of
Caroline
County to
levy 200 000
lb. of To-
bacco for
the same
purpose.]
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