Acts. 401

to send one able and Sufficient Labouring man in the stead of each
female Negro Taxable for whom he shall be chargeable

Liber R. G.
1774

And be it further enacted that the overseer aforesaid shall fairly
and impartially warn and employ the Taxables within their respec-
tive Hundreds in turn and on the Most convenient Parts of the
Public Roads and where one and the same person shall have or
be chargeable with more than one Tax he or she shall not be oblidged
to send more than one half of the whole Number of his or her
taxables in the same hundred on the same day and in Consideration
of the Extraordinary Personal trouble of the overseers all the
Taxables of each overseer within the district of which he shall be
overseer shall be exempt from Labour or attendance on the Pub-
lic Roads

f Taxables to
be employed
in Turn, and
Persons
chargeable
with more
than one to
send only one
Half on the
same Day,

&c.]

And be it further enacted that if any of the said Overseers shall
after the ffirst day of July next Voluntarily suffer any Public Road
in his District to be out of repair by the space of Ten days together
or shall neglect to clear and well Grubb any such Road he shall incur
the Penalty inflicted by Law on overseers for neglecting to Clear
the Roads and the same Penalty may be recovered before any one
Justice of the Peace of the County in which he resides one half
thereof to the use of the County towards defraying the Charge
thereof and the other half to the use of such Person who will Inform
or Warrant for the same

[Overseers
neglecting to
clear the
Roads to
incur the
Penalty in-
flicted by
Law.]

By the Lower House of
Assembly April 18.^th 1774
Read and Assented to
Signed by order
John Duckett Cl. Lo Ho

37 1/2 sides

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

the great seal
in wax appendant

By the Upper House of
Assembly April 18.^th 1774
Read and assented to
Signed by order
James Brooks
Cl. Up.r Ho

No. 22 An Act for the Releif of certain languishing Prisoners in the several
Jails therein Mentioned

p. 349

Whereas Aquila Carr John Curtis John Dunn, Joseph Ashmead
Benjamin Robertson, Robert Bowens, James Elkins, William Miller,
Walter Fowler William Lee John Pearce, Mathew M.^cCormich, John
Pearsons, Peter Siggaser, Jacob Hart, Joseph Barren, Dorothy Rol-
lings, John Elerman, Joseph Roddy, George Shake, Adam Roer-
bough, Philip Miller, John Smithson, Francis Sheilds, John Filby
James Bowers, John Clerk, William Hopson, Christian Napple,
James M^cBath Jacob Raybolt John Fitzmorris, John Chaffey, Mathew
Mason, William Moore John Dea John George Williams, Thomas
Smith, Elizabeth Carr, Mark McLaughlin John McCann, John Lin-
ney Edward King John Spellman, Thomas Bready Patrick Higgins
Sarah Lobly Patrick Henesy Daniel Shawan Charles Babington
Alexander Montgomery, Benjamin Wallace, Simon Jordan, John

[Preamble,
with the
Names of
the Prison-
ers relieved.]