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THOMAS BLADEN, Esq; Governor.
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Witness or Witnesses, and such Sheriff, Deputy, or Under-Sheriff, shall
refuse
or neglect to receive the same, so tendered or offered as aforesaid
to be
paid, then, and in every such case, such Person or Persons so tendering
or
offering, shall not at any Time afterwards be obliged to pay Tobacco for
such
Public or County Levy, or for so much thereof as he or she had tendered
Money for as aforesaid, but shall for ever afterwards be at Liberty,
and have
his or her Election to pay the same in Tobacco, or Money, as he or she
shall
think fit.
VIII. This Act to be, and continue in full
Force, for and during the Term
of Three Years, and unto the End of the next Session of Assembly which
shall happen after the End of the said Three Years.
Examined and Compared with the Original Act, REVERDY GHISELIN,
THOMAS BACON.
Further continued by 1746, ch. 5; 1750, ch.
2; and by 1753, ch. 5, it was continued in Force
during the Paper Money Act of 1733, ch. 6, which expired the 29th
September 1764. But it is
virtually continued by the Inspection Law of 1763, ch. 8, §
28, which obliges all Sheriffs to
do and perform every Thing required of them to be done, (by the
above Act) so far as relates to Discounting
with the Inhabitants, making out and delivering Lists of all Tobacco with
which the People are charged
for Public and COunty Levies, and of the Money by them paid, or Certificates
returned (by those who make
no Tobacco) on or before the Tenth Day of April in Discharge thereof,
Attendance to receive the Dues,
and the Payment thereof in Money and Tobacco, in Proportion to those who
have Public Allowances.
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CHAP.
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CHAP. VIII.
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An Act for the Trial of all Matters of Fact, in the several Counties
where they
have arisen, or shall arise. Lib. B.L.C. fol. 242.
DISSENT.
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Passed 29th
October 1742. |
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CHAP. IX.
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An Act enabling the Justices of Cæcil County, to levy
on the Taxable Inhabitants
of St. Mary-Anne's Parish, in the County aforesaid,
the Sum of Eight HUndred
Pounds. Lib. B.L.C. fol. 2470
Viz. At
three several Annual Levies, together with the Sheriff's Salary at 5 per
Cent, for
erecting, building, and finishing a new Brick Church, in the said Parish,
in the same Place
where the old one now stands.
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CHAP. X.
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A Supplementary ACT to the Act, entitled, * An Act for the
repairing the Damages already sustained in the Records
of the
Land, Secretary's Commissary's, and County Court, Offices,
and for Security of the same Records for the future.
Lib.
B.L.C. fol. 248.
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Ditto.
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WHEREAS the Inhabitants of this Province have been at great Expence
and Charge in repairing, amending, and compleating, the
Records of the Land, Secretary's Chancery, Commissary's, and
County Court, Offices, and that on the well and safe keeping of which Records,
and such as hereafter shall be entered and made, greatly depend the
Fortunes, Interest and Estates of the People of this Province. And
whereas
it is not only necessary and requisite, that the Books for Entering and
Recording
in, should be good and well Bound, but that likewise true and legal
Entries and Records be entered and made by the several and respective Officers
and Clerks holding the said Offices, their Servants, Clerks or Under-writers:
and whereas so great a Part of the Estates and Interest of the good People
of Maryland, depend on the faithful and due Execution of the Trust
committed,
and to be committed, to the respective Officers and Clerks in the said
several and respective Officers; and that it does not appear to this General
Assembly,
that the Penalty in the Bonds, to be given by the several and respective
Officers and Clerks, by Direction of the said Act for repairing the Damages
already sustained in the Records of the Land, Secretary's Commissary's,
and County Court, Offices, and for Security of the same Records for
the future,
is equal to the Trust reposed in them, or the great Share and Interest
which the People, of Right, have in the same Records; nor that the said
Bond is for the due Execution of the Offices of the said respective Officers
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