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JOHN EAGER HOWARD, Esq; Governor.
II. Be it enacted,
by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Mary Cox,
widow of the said James Cox, shall be and she is hereby entitled, on application
to the governor and council, to receive an order on the treasurer of the
western
shore for a sum of money not exceeding the half pay of a major of militia,
yearly
and every year during her widow. |
1788.
CHAP.
XXII. |
CHAP. XXIII.
An ACT to lay a further tax on the people of Harford county to
complete the public buildings of said county, and for
other
purposes. |
Passed December
22. |
WHEREAS the funds provided for erecting the public
buildings of
Harford county have proved insufficient for the purpose; |
Preamble. |
II. Be it enacted,
by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the justices of
said county be and they are hereby empowered, at their next term after
the passage
of this act, to assess on the assessable property in said county the sum
of two
shillings and six-pence on every hundred pounds worth of property,
together
with the sheriff's commission for collection; which said sum, so to be
assessed,
shall be collected by the sheriff of said county in the same manner
as the public
and county assessments are by law collected; and the same, when collected,
shall
by the said sheriff be paid to the order of the said justices in court
sitting, for
the purpose of completing the public buildings in said county. |
Justices to levy
2f6, &c. |
III. And,
whereas before the erection of part of Baltimore county into a new
county by the name of Harford, the inhabitants of that part of Baltimore
county
so erected into a new county, had paid a proportionable quantity of
tobacco
towards the building the court-house and prison in Baltimore-town, and
a considerable
sum of money was raised by the sale of the old court-house and prison
at Joppa, and applied towards building the new court-house and prison in
Baltimore-town:
And whereas, in order that the said proportionable quantity of tobacco,
and proportionable part of the money for which the said old court-house
and prison at Joppa were sold, should be refunded and applied towards building
the
court-house and prison to be erected in the new county by the name of Harford,
enacted, that the justices of Baltimore county should assess and levy,
by two
equal assessments, the next year and year afterwards, with their public
and county
levy, the quantity of one hundred and fifty-four thousand six hundred
and sixty-six
pounds of tobacco, in and upon the taxable inhabitants of Baltimore county,
together with the sheriff's salary of five per centum for collection;
which said
quantity of tobacco, so to be assessed and levied, should be collected
by the sheriff
of Baltimore county from the taxable inhabitants thereof, in the same manner
as other public and county levies are by law collected; and the said tobacco,
when collected, should be paid by the said sheriff to the commissioners
aforesaid,
and should by them be applied towards building the court-house and prison
in
the said county of Harford: And whereas it appears to this general
assembly,
that only seventy-seven thousand three hundred and thirty-three pounds
of tobacco
was collected under the said act, and that the residue of the said one
hundred
and fifty-four thousand six hundred and sixty-six pounds of tobacco still
remains to be collected and paid for the use of Harford county: Be
it enacted,
That the justices of Baltimore county be and they are hereby authorised
and required,
to assess on the assessable property in said county, at their next April
term, the sum of four hundred and eighty-three pounds six shillings and
seven-pence,
together with the sheriff's commission for collection; which said sum,
so
to be assessed, shall be collected by the sheriff of Baltimore county from
the
inhabitants thereof, in the same manner as the public and county assessments
are
by law collected, and the same, when collected, shall be paid by the said
sheriff
to the order of the justices of Harford county court, to be by them applied
towards completing the court-house and prison in the said county of
Harford;
provided always, that if it shall appear to the court of Baltimore county,
that |
Justices of
Baltimore
county to assess
£ 483 6 7,
&c. |
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