380 Assembly Proceedings, March 2$-April 19, 1774.

Liber R. G.
1774

be or who shall from Time to Time undertake to give Notice to the
Members of the said Corporation of any Intended meeting or Call
of the said Corporation shall do the same fully and fairly giving
Speedy and early Notice of the Time and Place of meeting of the
Corporation to every member thereof living in Annapolis or leaving
Written Notice thereof at such members abode and also to every
Country Member that he shall know or be informed is then in
Annapolis the like Notice if such Member shall Actually then be in
Annapolis under the Penalty of Twenty Shillings for every Omission
in the Premises to be recovered before a Single Magistrate and
Applied to the use of the said Corporation.

By the Lower House of
Assembly April 15. 1774
Read and Assented to
Signed by Order
Jn.^o Duckett Cl Lo Ho

6 sides

On Behalf of the Right
Honourable the Lord
Proprietary of this Prov-
ince I Will this be a Law
Robt Eden

the great Seal
in Wax appendant

By the Upper House of
Assembly April 15:^th 1774
Read and Assented to
Signed by Order
Tames Brooks
Cl Up.' Ho

No. 16

p. 333
[Preamble.]
[An Alms
& Work-
House to be
erected in
Talbot
County.]
[Justices to
levy 15 lb.
Tobacco per
Poll, in 1774,
1775, & 1776,
to be paid to
the Trustees,
&c.]

An Act for the Releif of the Poor in Talbott County

Whereas the necessity Number and continual Increase of the poor
within said County is very great and exceedingly burthensome which
might be greatly lessened by a due regulation and Employment
of them

Be it therefore Enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Pro-
prietary by and with the Advice and consent of his Governor and
the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly and the Authority of the
same That there shall be an Alms and Workhouse Erected built and
set up in Talbot County at a Convenient Place therein at the General
charge and Expence of the said County and that the Justices of the
said County for the Time being shall and they are hereby Authorised
and empowered to Assess and Levy on the Taxable Inhabitants of
said County at the Time of Laying their County Levy a Quantity
not Exceeding fifteen pounds of Tobacco by the Poll on each and
every the Taxable Inhabitants of their said County In each of the
Years of our Lord seventeen Hundred Seventy four seventeen Hun-
dred and seventy five and Seventeen Hundred and Seventy Six .
together with the Sherriffs Salary of five per Cent for collecting
the same which said Assessments so as aforesaid to be made and
levied shall be collected by the Sheriff of the said County from the
several Taxable persons who shall reside within the same in the same
Manner as the Publick and County levies are Collected and the said
Tobacco when so as aforesaid Collected shall be paid by such Sherriff
to such Trustees for the Poor or the Major part of them as are
by this Act appointed who are hereby Authorised and required to