CHAP.
XI. |
IV. This Act to continue for Three Years,
and unto the End of the next
Session of Assembly, which shall happen after the Expiration of the said
Three Years.
Examined and Compared with the Original Act, REVERDY
GHISELIN,
THOMAS BACON. |
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Farther continued by 1762, ch. 14.
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CHAP. XII.
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Passed 24th
Dec. 1758. |
An Act for the keeping a public Warehouse for Inspecting Tobacco,
at the land of
Ease, on South River. Lib. H.S.
fol. 374. EXP. |
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To continue until the 1st December 1763..
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CHAP. XIII.
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| Ditto. |
An Act for selling the Land whereon the Free-School in sat.
Mary's County stood;
and for Re-building the said School-House. Lib.
H.S. fol. 374.
N.B. The
old School-House being unfortunately destroyed by Fire, and its Situation
very
inconvenient, the Visitors were impowered to set up the
School-House Land of Sale, and to
convey the same to the Purchaser in Fee, &c. and with the Money arising
thereby, (so far as
the same should extend) to Purchase some other Piece of ground within the
County, and
thereon to build a new School-House.
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CHAP. XIV.
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An Act continuing an Act, entitled, h An
Act for repairing the Public Roads in this
Province; and the i Supplementary
Act thereto. Lib. H.S. fol. 375. EXP,
h 1753,
ch. 16: i 1756,
ch. 12: Both which are hereby continued 3 Years,
&c.
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CHAP. XV.
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An Act to enable the Agents appointed by an Act, entitled, An Act
for granting
a Supply of Forty Thousand Pounds for his Majesty's
Service, and striking Thirty-four
Thousand and Fifteen Pounds Six Shillings thereof, in
Bills of Credit, and
raising a Fund for sinking the same, to pay the several
k Sums of Money for Indian
Scalps to the Persons in this Act mentioned.
Lib. H.S. fol. 376. OBS.
k Viz.
50 l. Current Money to Lieutenant Col. Dagworthy, for
the Scalp of an Indian Enemy,
killed by a Cherokee Indian in the English
Interest, on St. George's Creek in this Province, which
Scalp was purchased of the said Cherokee Indian by Lieut. Col. Dagworthy:
And 50 ll. Current
Money to Capt. Evan Shelby, for the Scalp of Capt. Charles,
(Brother to Custoga, a Delaware
Indian) commanding a Party of Warriors who was killed the 12th November
1758, in a Skirmish
near Loyal Hanning, by Capt. Shelby, who commanded a Company
of Maryland Volunteers. The
said Sums to be paid by the Agents appointed by the Act of 1756, ch.
5, and to be allowed them
out of the Money appropriated to the payment for Scalps.
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CHAP. XVI.
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An act to impower the Justices of Charles County, to levy
on the Taxable Inhabitants
of Port-Tobacco Parish in said County, a Sum
not exceeding two
POunds of Tobacco per Poll, annually, for the Support
of an Organist in said
parish. Lib. H.S. fol. 377.
N.B. Dr.
Gustavas Brown having offered a Donation of an Organ to the said
Parish; this
Act impowers the Justices aforesaid, on Application of the Vestry, to levy
Two Pounds of Tobacco
per Poll on the Taxable Inhabitants of the said Parish,
to be paid in Tobacco: The Sheriff
to be allowed 5 per Cent for collecting the same, and to be paid into the
Hands of the
Vestry, and by them applied to the payment of an Organist in the Parish
aforesaid. But if the
said Parish shall at any Time be without an Organist, then the said Tax
to be applied by the
Vestry to the Use of the Parish. This Act to continue Fifteen Years,
and to the End of the
next Session of Assembly which shall happen after the Expiration of the
said Fifteen Years, and
no longer. An Additional 2 lb Tobacco per Poll
is granted by 1763, ch. 31.
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CHAP. XVII.
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An Act for granting a l Sum of
Money as a Present to the Forces late in the Pay
and Service of this Province, and taken into his Majesty's
Service by Brigadier-
General Forbes. Lib. H.S. fol.
378. OBS.
l Viz.
1500 l. part of the Money now in the Hands of the Commissioners
of the Loan Office,
appropriated for the Payment of Indian Scalps and Prisoners, to
be paid out of the said Fund,
unto the Agents appointed by the Act of 1756, ch. 5; and by them
paid and distributed in Manner
following, viz. To Lieut. Col. Dagworthy 30 l. To
every Captain, 16 l. To every Lieutenant,
12 l. To every Ensign, 9 l. To every Non-commissioned
Officer, 6 l.. And the Residue
of the said 1500 l. to be laid out in Cloaths or other Necessaries,
as the said agents shall
think fit,. to be equally distributed among the private Soldiers who served
on the said Expedition.
The Representatives of Officers or Soldiers who either died or were killed
during that Campaign,
to be entitled to their Proportion of the Distribution: And the Agents
to produce genuine Receipts
from each Officer, Soldier., or Representative, for such proportionable
Sum of Money,
Cloaths, &c. and lay the same before the Assembly at their next Meeting,
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