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and building a house thereon for the reception of the poor of that
county: that in consequence thereof there was levied at Novem-
ber court seventeen hundred and seventy-four, the quantity of fif-
teen pounds of tobacco per poll, which has been collected and paid
into the hands of trustees appointed to carry the said act into exe-
cution, and there remains unexpended. That at November court
seventeen hundred and seventy-five, the further sum of fifteen
pounds of tobacco was levied by the justices of the said county,
now to be collected by the sheriff, which cannot at this time be
done without distressing the inhabitants thereof:

Resolved therefore, That the sheriff of Talbot county shall forbear
to collect any of the tobacco so levied on the inhabitants of that
county at November court seventeen hundred and seventy-five,
and that the trustees appointed for carrying the said act of assem-
bly into execution, are hereby requested to pay all money or tobac-
co which they may have received or shall hereafter receive in vir-
tue of the said act, into the hands of the trustees of the said coun-
ty, to be applied by them to the relief and support of the poor of
the said county.

Mr. Hughs brings in and delivers to Mr. President the following
report, to wit:

"Your committee to enquire into the expenditure of the money
appropriated for the building a log jail in Frederick county, beg
leave to report, That one hundred and seventy-nine pounds five
shillings and two pence farthing has been expended on the same,
as per account rendered to your committee; and that there remains
in the hands of the supervisors of the said building the sum of
twenty pounds fourteen shillings and nine pence three farthings.
That the log jail is completed agreeable to the direction of a re-
solve in December last all to three stoves. Your committee are
of opinion that the said log jail is by no means proper for the re-
ception of prisoners of war, having no yard or other necessary con-
venience; all which is submitted to the honourable house.
" Signed by order of the committee,

JOHN JOHNSON, clerk.

Which was read and ordered to lie on the table.

Convention adjourns till Monday morning, 9 o'clock.

MONDAY, September 16, 1776.

Convention met. All members present as on Saturday, except
Mr. Hughs. The proceedings of Saturday were read. Mr. Worth-
ington, Mr. Bruff, Mr. J. Mackall, and Mr. Fenwick, appeared in
the house.
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