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CHAP.
XXIII. |
LAWS of MARYLAND.
given or made, in tobacco, by this or any act of assembly hereafter
to be made or
be in force during the continuance of this act, shall be paid and discharged
in tobacco,
at the rate of twelve shillings and six-pence per hundred, or in specie,
valuing
Spanish dollars at seven shillings and six-pence, and gold and other silver
in
proportion, or in new bills at the passing value, at the election of the
person
charged therewith; which said value shall be ascertained and fixed at each
term
by the court by whom such fines, penalties and forfeitures, shall be imposed,
and
where such fees and allowances shall accrue and become due, and so until
paid
and discharged. |
| Continuance. |
IV. This act to continue one year, and until
the end of the next session of assembly
which shall happen thereafter.
See the principal act for the continuances. |
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CHAP. XXIV.
An ACT for the relief of certain nonjurors. |
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CHAP. XXV.
An ACT to raise the supplies for the year seventeen hundred and eighty-one.
This act imposes a rate of 30f
in the £. 100, to be paid in fresh pork at £. 3 per hundred,
beef at 48f,
barrelled pork £. 8 10 0 per barrel, containing 220lb. wheat at 7f6
per bushel, wheat flour separated
from the bran and shorts at 18/9 per short hundred, transfer tobacco at
17f6, and crop tobacco at 20f per
hundred, Spanish dollars at 7f6, and gold, silver, or new bills
of the emission of this state, at their respective
comparative passing value, at the time of payment. |
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CHAP. XXVI.
An ACT to authorise the county courts to impose an assessment to
defray their county charges. |
Justices to adjust
the county
expences,
&c. |
BE it enacted,
by the general assembly of Maryland, That the justices of the
several county courts, or any three or more of them, in court sitting,
shall,
and they are hereby authorised and required, at their respective June or
August courts, to adjust the ordinary and necessary expences of their several
counties,
including an allowance for the poor of their county, in real money, estimating
Spanish milled silver dollars at seven shillings and six-pence each, and
for
payment thereof (with the same commission for collection as may be allowed
by
the public) to impose an assessment or rate on all property within their
county
sufficient to defray such county charge, and the said justices shall apportion
such
assessment or rate according to the last valuation of property in their
county, and
the person or persons appointed to collect the public assessment or rate
in their
county, shall collect the same; and every collector, before he acts as
such, shall
give bond (payable to the state) with good and sufficient securities, such
as the
said justices shall approve, in double the sum to be collected, with condition,
that if the above bound __________ shall well and faithfully execute his
office,
and the several duties required of him by law, and shall well and truly
account
for and pay to the justices of __________ county court, or their order,
the
several sums of money which he shall receive or be answerable for by law,
at such
time as the law shall direct, then the obligation to be void. |
Clerk to keep
an account of
assessment,
&c. |
II. And be it
enacted, That the clerk of each county shall, and he is hereby
directed, to keep a fair and accurate account of such assessment or rate,
and how
disposed of by his county court, in a book to be kept for that purpose
alone, and
shall annually, within one month after such assessment (under the penalty
of fifty
pounds current money) transmit a copy thereof to the governor and council,
for
their information, of the gross amount of the property in such county,
and the
amount of the tax for the county expences; and such clerk shall also, within
ten
days after such assessment ( under the penalty of two hundred pounds current
money)
deliver a fair copy thereof to the collector or collectors appointed as
aforesaid,
and such collector or collectors shall, and he or they are hereby authorised
and required, after the first day of October annually, to collect the same
rate in
the same manner the public assessment in such county shall by law be directed
to
be collected, and shall render account thereof and pay the same to the
order of
their respective county courts, on or before the first day of November
annually, |
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