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Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly, October 1773 to April 1774
Volume 64, Page 257   View pdf image (33K)
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Acts. 257


the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly and the Authority of
the same That the Directors and Managers for erecting and finishing
the said Light House or causing the same to be erected and finished
already appointed or hereafter to be appointed by Act or Acts of
the General Assembly of the said Colony of Virginia or such of
them as are or shall be empowered by such Act or Acts of the said
General Assembly of Virginia to lay out and expend the said six
thousand Pounds or any Part thereof shall be and are hereby im-
powered for this Province to lay out and expend any Sum or Sums
of Money as shall be by them thought necessary not exceeding Three
thousand six hundred Pounds Current Money of Mary Land in the
whole in and towards the Expences of Building and finishing the
said Light House purchasing and placing such Buoys as aforesaid
and also placing and constantly keeping a Light in the said House
and furnishing the same with Proper Necessaries jointly with the
Money so granted by the Colony of Virginia and in proportion
thereto as Three bears to five And at such Time or Times as they
shall make any Certificate or Certificates to the Governor or Com-
mander in Chief of Virginia whereon to obtain his Warrant or
Warrants for the Payment of any Part of the Money granted as
aforesaid in Virginia it shall and may be Lawful for them to draw
their Order or Orders to such Person or Persons as they shall think
proper on the Commissioners for emitting Bills of Credit for the

Liber R. G.
1773
[Managers
for erecting,
&c. a Light-
House, ap-
pointed by
the Assem-
bly of Vir-
ginia, im-
powered to
act for this
Province,
&c.]

due Proportion aforesaid of this Province all which Orders the said
Commissioners are required to pay out of the Monies hereinafter
for that Purpose appointed.

p. 299

And be it further enacted that the Treasurers of the respective
Shores on or before the tenth Day of February next shall respec-
tively pay to the said Commissioners all Monies now in their
Hands belonging to the Public of this Province over and above the
Sum of three hundred pounds Current Money and shall from time
to time within two Months after their Receipt of any other such
Moneys which with the Money then in their Hands will exceed the
said Sum of three hundred Pounds Current Money pay such Excess
to the said Commissioners untill the said Sum of three thousand six
hundred Pounds Current Money shall be by them fully paid into
their Hands out of which Moneys to be paid by the Treasurers to
the Commissioners aforesaid the said Commissioners shall pay the
Orders to be drawn on them as aforesaid if sufficient shall in that
manner have come to their Hands at the time such Orders shall be
presented to them for Payment but if sufficient shall not have come
to their Hands then the Commissioners aforesaid shall pay the said
Orders out of any other Money in their Hands belonging to the
Public.
And for Repayments of the said Sum of Three thousand six
hundred Pounds Current Money. Be it enacted that from and after

[Treasurers
of each
Shore to pay
all the pub-
lic Monies
in their
Hands, over
and above
300 1. Cur-
rency, to the
Commission-
ers for
emitting
Bills of
Credit, till
3600 1. be
paid, &c.]



 
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