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HORATIO SHARPE, Esq; Governor.
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1762. |
of 20 Shillings Current Money for every such Offence;
to be recovered by Warrant before a
Single Magistrate as in case of small Debts, and paid to the Clerk of the
Market (who shall be
appointed by the Justices of Kent County) and by him be applied
to the repairing of the said
Market House. (3.) No Person after the Time aforesaid, bringing
or sending, or having
brought or sent any Provisions or Victuals to the said Town for Sale, shall
presume to sell or
cause to be sold, the said Victuals or Provisions so bringing or sending,
or brought or sent as
aforesaid to the said Town, or within one Mile thereof, either by Land
or Water (except as
before excepted) under Penalty of 10 Shillings Current Money, with Costs;
to be recovered,
paid and applied as aforesaid. (4.) Persons slaughtering or
butchering any Cattle, Sheep, or
Hogs in or near about the said Market House, shall forfeit and pay 2 s.
6 d. Current Money for
every such Offence, with Costs; to be recovered, &c. as aforesaid,
(5.) person putting any
Horses, Mares or Geldings into, or under the said Market House, forfeit
2 s. 6 d. Current Money,
with Costs, to be recovered, &c. as aforesaid. (6.) This
Act to continue Three Years,
and to the End of the next Session of Assembly that shall happen after
the Expiration of the
said Three Years.
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CHAP.
XXXII. |
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CHAP. XXXIII.
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An act to prevent any future Loan of the Bills of Credit now in
the Paper Currency
Office, and to ease the Inhabitants of this Province
in the Payment of certain
Taxes. Lib. H.S. fol. 425.
OBS.
N.B. By
this Act, (1.) The Commissioners of the Loan Office were prohibited
to lend out
to any Person, or on any Pretence or Security whatsoever, any Bills of
Credit (then in their
Office) properly belonging to the Country, or which might thereafter be
paid in on any Debt
then due on Loan. (2.) For the more easy payment of the Duties,
Taxes, &c. imposed by the
Act of 1756, ch. 5, the said Duties, &c. were made payable either
in Current Gold or Silver of
America, or in Bills of Credit. (3.)
Every Collector or other Officer, on accounting for, and
paying into the Office the Money so received by him, was to make Oath,
that the Paper Money
for which he had debited himself in Account, was the
full Amount of all the Paper Money
which he received from the People, &c. And
the Commissioners to receive the Money on the
said Accounts, agreeable to the Species therein distinguished, and keep
separate and distinct Accounts
thereof. (4.) For so much Gold or Silver paid into the Office
as aforesaid, the like Sum
of Bills of Credit belonging to the Province in the Office, to be burnt
and destroyed. (5.) The
Gold and Silver so paid in, to be a Treasure to the Country, subject to
Loan by the Commissioners,
&c. in the same Manner as other Gold and Silver paid in for Debts due
on Loan to the
said Office, &c.
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Passed 24th
April 1762. |
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CHAP. XXXIV.
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An ACT for the destroying of Squirrels and Crows in Baltimore
County. Lib. H.S. fol.
427.
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Ditto. |
BE it Enacted, by the Right
Honourable the Lord Proprietary, by and with
the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's Governor, and the Upper
and
Lower Houses of Assembly, and the Authority of the same, That
the Justices
of Baltimore County Court, shall, at the laying of their County
Levy
yearly, allow unto the several Inhabitants of the said County, for the
Scalp
of every Squirrel, and the Head of every Crow, the Sum of Two Pounds of
Tobacco, that shall be produced over and above the Three Squirrel Scalps,
or Crows Heads which they are obliged to produce by any former Law of
this Province.
II. And be it likewise
Enacted, That from and after the Eleventh Day of
June, Seventeen Hundred and Sixty-two, every Person or Person, who
shall
bring Justice of the Peace within the said County of Baltimore,
any
Squirrel's Scalp, or Crow's Head, and shall and will make Oath on the Holy
Evangels of Almighty GOD, (or Affirmation if a Quaker) " That the
" Squirrels or Crows, of which he, she, or they, then and there actually
" produced the Heads or Scalps of, were really and bonâ fide killed
within
" said County, after the said Eleventh Day of June, Seventeen Hundred
" and Sixty-two;" and upon such Oath taken, or Affirmation made, that
the Justice of the Peace of the said County of Baltimore, before
whom such
Oath shall be taken, or Affirmation made, and such Scalps or Crows Heads
produced, shall, and he or they are hereby directed, to burn, or cause
to be
burnt, such Scalps or Heads, in his Presence, to the entire destroying
of
them: And after such Burning and Destroying, such Justice of the
Peace,
shall, and is hereby directed, to give to the Person or Persons bringing
such
Scalps or Heads, and making Oath or Affirmation as aforesaid, a Certificate
of his, her, or their having produced the same, inserting therein the Number
of each, and the County wherein the Party bringing them Proved the
Killing such Squirrels or Crows in. |
Allowance of
2 lb Tobacco
for every
Squirrel's
Scalp, or Crow's Head
produced over
and above
the 3 Scalps,
&c.
Persons producing
such
Scalps, &c.
shall make
Oath, &c.
The Magistrate
to burn
the Scalps,
and give Certificate. |
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