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HORATIO SHARPE, Esq; Governor.
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1754. |
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CHAP. II.
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An Act impowering the Justices of Frederick County Court,
to levy on the Taxable
Inhabitants of the said County, a Sum of Current Money
for the b Uses
therein mentioned. Lib. H.S. fol.
141.
b George
Gordon, Esq; late Sheriff, having accounted with
the Magistrates for 118 l. Current
Money, arising from Ordinary Licences and Fines on Breach of the Act for
regulating Ordinaries,
which the Magistrates were of Opinion belonged to the County, this Act
impowered
the Magistrates to levy the said Sum on the County, to be paid to the said
George Gordon, &c.
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Passed 9th
March 1754. |
At a Session of ASSEMBLY, begun and held at
the City of Annapolis, the 8th Day of
May, and
ended the 30th Day of the same Month, in the 4th
Year of the Dominion of the Right Honourable
FREDERICK, absolute Lord and Proprietary of the
Provinces of Maryland and Avalon, Lord
Baron of
Baltimore, &c. Annoq; Domini, 1754:
The following
Laws were Enacted. |
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HORATIO SHARPE, Esq; Governor.
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CHAP. III.
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An additional Supplementary Act to the Act, entitled, a
An Act for amending the
Staple of Tobacco, for preventing Frauds in his Majesty's
Customs, and for the
Limitation of Officers Fees. Lib. H.S.
fol. 142. EXP. |
Passed 30th
May 1754. |
a 1753, ch. 22,
which expired the 1st December 1763.
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CHAP. IV.
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An Act to make it Penal to Forge or Counterfeit the Bills of Credit
of Pennsylvania,
New-York, East or West Jerseys, or the Three
Lower Counties on
Delaware, called New-Castle, Kent, and
Sussex; or to utter or tender the
same in Payment within this Province, knowing them to
be such. Lib. H.S.
fol. 145. EXP. |
Ditto. |
To be in Force 3 Years, &c. A new Law made
1758, ch. 3.
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CHAP. V.
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An Act for building a Prison in Frederick County. Lib.
H.S. fol. 146. OBS.
By this Act the Commissioners of the
Loan Office were directed to pay, on Demand, to the
Justices of Frederick County,
400 l. in Bills of Credit, for the Purpose aforesaid.
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Ditto. |
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CHAP. VI.
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An Act to enable the Justices of St. Mary's County, to levy
a Quantity of b Tobacco
on the Taxable Inhabitants of King and Queen Parish,
in the said County,
for the Purposes therein mentioned. Lib. H.S.
fol. 147. OBS. |
Ditto. |
b Viz. 22000 lb
Tobacco for Repairing Chaptico Church.
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CHAP. VII.
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An Act impowering the Rector, Vestry-men and Church-wardens of Port-Tobacco
Parish in Charles County, for the TIme being,
to purchase a Quantity
not exceeding Two Acres of Land, and thereon to build
a Chapel of Ease in the
said Parish; and to impower the Justices of the said
County to levy on the Taxable
Inhabitants of the said Parish, c
a Quantity of Tobacco for the Uses therein
mentioned. Lib. H.S. fol. 148. OBS.
c Viz.
11000 lb Tobacco in November 1754, and 33000 lb Tobacco in November
1755, exclusive
of the Sheriff's Salary, to be paid to the Vestry, &c. and by them
be applied to the aforesaid
Purchase and Building, at a Place called the Ivy-Spring, on a Branch
called the Dressing-Branch;
near the Pines, &c.
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Ditto. |
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CHAP. VIII.
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A Supplementary Act to an Act, entitled, d
An Act for the speedy and effectual
Publication of the Laws of this Province; and for the
Encouragement of Jonas
Green of the City of Annapolis, Printer.
Lib. H.S. fol. 149. OBS.
N.B. This
Act impowered the several Sheriffs to pay Mr. Green the Money levied
for Printing,
&c. the Votes of October Session 1753, which had not been delivered
according to the Directions
of the Original Act, by the First of March last. |
Ditto.
d 1753, ch. 39. |
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