| 1773.
CHAP.
X.
And in Caroline
county
for the same
purpose. |
3 HENRY HARFORD, Esq;
VIII. And be
it enacted, That the justices of Caroline county shall be, and
they are hereby authorised and required, to assess and levy, with the public
and
county levy, by three equal assessments, the next year and the two succeeding
years,
the quantity of two hundred thousand pounds of tobacco, together with the
sheriff's
salary of five per centum for collection; which said tobacco, so
to be assessed
and levied, shall be collected by the sheriff of Caroline county, from
the taxable
inhabitants of the said county, in the same manner as other public and
county levies
are by law collected; which said tobacco, when collected, shall be paid
by
the said sheriff to the commissioners aforesaid, and applied by them towards
building
the court-house and prison aforesaid for the said county. |
Constables to
make lists of
the inhabitants,
&c. |
IX. And,
whereas the aforesaid quantity of seventy thousand pounds of tobacco,
to be refunded as aforesaid, and applied as aforesaid, was levied and assessed
upon
the taxable inhabitants only of that part of Dorchester county now included
in
Caroline county: And whereas justice requires that the taxable inhabitants
of that
part of Queen-Anne's county, now included in Caroline county, should be
taxed
proportionably, Be it enacted,
That the justices of Caroline county shall be, and
they are hereby authorised and empowered, to order and direct the constables
of the
several hundreds in that part of Queen-Anne's county, now included in Caroline
county, to make out a list of the taxable inhabitants of the said part
of Caroline
county, and to return the same to their next levy court; and to order the
constables
of the several hundreds in that part of Dorchester county now included
in Caroline
county, to make out a list of the taxable inhabitants in that part of Caroline
county, and to return the same at their said court; and, from the said
lists, the
said justices are hereby empowered and required, to fix and ascertain what
quantity
or proportion of tobacco the taxable inhabitants of that part of Queen-Anne's
county, now included in Caroline county, ought to be taxed, to make up
an equal
contribution with the taxable inhabitants of that part of Dorchester county,
now
included in Caroline county; and which said quantity of tobacco the said
justices
shall be, and they are hereby empowered, to levy and assess, by three equal
assessments,
with their public and county levy, the next year and the two years succeeding,
on the taxable inhabitants of that part of Queen-Anne's county, now
included in Caroline county, the said quantity of tobacco, ascertained
as aforesaid,
to be an equal proportion, as aforesaid, together with five per cent.
to the sheriff
for collection; which said quantity of tobacco, so assessed and levied,
shall be collected
by the sheriff of Caroline county, of the taxable inhabitants of the said
part
of Caroline county, in the same manner as other public and county levies
are by
law collected; and the said tobacco, when collected, shall be paid by the
said sheriff
to the commissioners aforesaid, and applied by them towards building the
court-house and prison in the county aforesaid. |
Commissioners
to contract
for building a
court-house,
&c. |
X. And be it
enacted, That the commissioners aforesaid, or the major part of
them, shall be, and they are hereby authorised and required, to contract
and agree
for the building of the said court-house and prison; which said court-house
and
prison shall be built and erected on the land to be purchased as aforesaid;
and
the said place, after the commencement of this act, shall be called Eden-town. |
Causes depending
may
be prosecuted,
&c. |
XI. And be it
enacted, That all causes, pleas, process and pleadings, which
now are or shall be depending in Dorchester and Queen-Anne's county courts,
before
the Monday after the second Tuesday in March, shall and may be prosecuted
as effectually as they might have been had this act never been made. |
Justices of
Dorchester
and Queen-Anne's
to issue
executions against
inhabitants
of Caroline
county,
&c. |
XII. And be
it enacted, That the justices of Dorchester and Queen-Anne's
counties shall be, and they are hereby respectively empowered, upon application,
to
issue executions, or other legal process, upon all judgments had and obtained,
or to
be had and obtained, in Dorchester or Queen-Anne's county courts, against
any inhabitant
of Caroline county, and to enforce the same; which said writs shall be
directed
to the sheriff of Caroline county, and the said sheriff is hereby authorised
and
directed to serve and return the same to Dorchester and Queen-Anne's county
courts
respectively, with the body or bodies of the person or persons, if taken,
against whom
such writ or writs shall issue for that purpose; and during the attendance
of the |
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