Acts. 333

Orrell Gentleman Sheriff of Dorchester County who is hereby Im-
powered and required together with Mess^rs John Hodson Saunders
Henry Hooper Mathew Traverse and Edward Pritchet or any two of
them as Commissioners to put this Act as far as it relates to the af^d
John Clements in Execution Anything therein to the Contrary not-
withstanding

Liber LL, 4
Acts

An Act for the Payment and Assessment of the Publick Charge of
this Province for this Present year One Thousand Seven hun-
dred and Twenty three and for Confirming the Journal of the
Levy in the Year One Thousand Seven hundred and Twenty two.
Whereas there hath been Five hundred Thousand and thirty one
Pounds of Tobacco and One hundred and Eighty Six Pounds
Eighteen shillings and Six Pence in money laid Out and Expended
for for the Publick Charge of this Province to the fifteenth Day of
October in the Year of Our Lord One thousand seven hundred and
Twenty three to the Intent the same may be Satisfied and paid to
whom the same is Due as by the Journalls of the Comittee for laying
the Publick Levy And Lists of Payments thereto annexed Appears
Be it Enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietor by and
with the Advice and Consent of his Lordships Governeur and the
Upper and lower houses of Assembly and the Authority of the same
that the said Sum of One hundred and Eighty Six Pounds Eighteen
shillings and Six Pence Money aforesaid be Satisfied and paid to
whom the same is Due Out of the Publick Stock of Money lodged
in the Treasurers hands of this Province and that the Tobacco now
raised and to be lodged in the hands of the Severall sheriffs of this
Province be Applied and a Levy of Equal Assessment of Twenty
One Pounds of Tobacco p Poll be by Vertue of this Act levyed and

Acts of
Oct. 1723,
ch. 25
p. 615

Assessed upon the bodys and Estates of the Taxable Inhabitants of
this Province And paid to the Severall persons to whom it is Due
According to the Journal of Accounts and Disbursements for the
necessary Charges of this Province which have been Examined and
now Stated and Allowed of by this Present Generall Assembly And
be it likewise Enacted that the Sum of four hundred ninety five
Pounds fourteen Shillings and One Penny Current Money Drawn
out of the Publick Treasurer's hands and the Quantity of five hundred
ninety seven thousand three hundred and twenty four pounds of
Tobacco levied by One Equal Assessment upon the Taxable persons
within this Province in the year Seventeen hundred and twenty two
and paid to the Several persons mentioned in the list Annexed to the
Journall of the Committee for assessing and Apportioning the
Publick Levey be and are hereby Confirmed and Declared to be
Good and Valid to All Intents and Purposes as if an Act had then
passed for the same.

p. 616