A History of Printing in Colonial Maryland

for the Year 1761. That the said Jonas Green hath at several Times Printed long Bills,
Records and Papers, inserted in the Journals and Proceedings of the Lower House of As-
sembly, too numerous to particularize, for which he has not received, as your Committee
can find, any Reward, more than his yearly Allowance, tho' the Votes and Proceedings have
been swelled to a great Size, by the Insertion of such Bills and Other Matters.

That since the Duties of Printing theLaws,andVotes and Proceedings, have been blended,
including May Session, 1747, and excluding the present Sessions, there have been Twenty-
two Sessions, and Six Conventions of the Assembly, so that there have been Thirteen Meet-
ings of the Assembly in and since 1747, more than at the Rate of one for each Year.

LATER LEGISLATION FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF JONAS GREEN

In 1762, to expire April 1765, an act was passed, as the result of the fore-
going report, by the terms of which Green was to receive each year that
there was held a session of Assembly two hundred and seventy-nine pounds
currency, but only two hundred and ten pounds if there were no Assembly.
To entitle him to the first mentioned allowance, he was obliged to produce
a certificate from the Sheriff of Anne Arundel County that he had delivered
to him the printed laws of each Session within three months after its close,
the Votes and Proceedings within four months. By another section of this
act five hundred pounds were to be paid him for public services for which
he had received no allowances, this sum to be diverted from a fund which
had been set aside in 1754 under the provisions of "An Act for his Majes-
ty's Service."

In 1763 an act passed in November says that the limitations of time im-
posed in the act of 1762 being too short for printing the laws of this session
on account of the approaching "bad Season," the time of printing the laws
was extended to four and the Votes and Proceedings to five months (Bacon
1763, ch. 33). A t this session, although a short one, the Assembly had passed
among others, "An Act for Amending the Staple of Tobacco, for preventing
Frauds in his Majesty's customs, and for the Limitation of Officers Fees,"
a notable piece of legislation, embodied in one hundred and fifty-three sec-
tions, occupying fifty of Bacon's folio pages for its publication. With the
short and dark days of the "bad Season" coming on, it is not remarkable
that Green had asked for and obtained an extension of time on his printing
of the acts and proceedings of this Assembly. In section 118 of this long
act of 1763 we find that hereafter Green was to be allowed by each County
Court at the laying of its levy three hundred and twenty pounds of tobacco
per annum for printing and delivering a sufficient number of books, notes
and manifests for the use of the tobacco inspectors at their annual inspec-
tions. In Section 120 of the same act it appears that three hundred and

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