Acts. 259

said are to render to the General Assembly of this Province an
Account of the Expenditure of the Monies aforesaid hereby granted
at the Time or Times and in the manner they render any Account of
the Expenditure of the Money granted as aforesaid by the Colony of
Virginia —

Liber R. G.
1773

And be it enacted that all the Money which shall arise on the said
Duty of Four pence per Ton as well as the Surplus if any of the
said Duty of one Penny half Penny per Ton shall belong to the
Public of this Province And shall from time to time as the same
shall come to the Hands of the Commissioners aforesaid be lent out
on the same Terms and in like Manner as other Public Moneys in
their Hands And the same with the Interest thereof shall be applied
and disposed of as the General Assembly of this Province shall direct
and appoint.

[Surpluses
to belong to
the Public,
and to be
applied by
the Commis-
sioners as
other Mon-
ies in their
Hands.]

By the Lower House of
Assembly Dec.^r 21.^st 1773
Read and Assented to
Signed by Order
Jn.^o Duckett Cl. Lo: Ho:

14 1/2 Sides

On behalf of the Right
Honble the Lord Pro-
prietary of this Province
will this be a Law
Rob^t Eden

The great Seal
in Wax appendant

By the Upper House of
Assembly Dec.^r 21.^st 1773
Read and Assented to
Signed by Order
U. Scott Cl. Up. Ho:

No. 30 An Act for the Relief of the poor within the County of Baltimore.
Whereas the Inhabitants of Baltimore County by their humble
Petition to this General Assembly have set forth that the Necessity
Number and continual Increase of the poor within the said County
is very great and exceedingly burthensome which might be greatly
lessened by a due Regulation and Employment of them and praying
that a Law may pass for that Purpose and to enable the Commis-
sioners for emitting Bills of Credit to pay and Advance to the
Trustees for the Use of said County the Sum of two thousand four
hundred Pounds Sterling in Bills of Credit and that the said Sum
may be repayed to the Public with Interest by the said County

p. 301
[Preamble.]

Be it therefore enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Pro-
prietary by and with the Advice and Consent of his Governor and
the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly and the Authority of
the Same That there shall be an Alms and Work House erected
built and set up in the said County

[An Alms
and Work-
House to be
erected in
Baltimore
County.]

And Whereas by an Act entitled an Act f or, emitting Bills of
Credit and applying Part thereof made and passed this present
session of Assembly thirty five thousand two hundred Dollars of
the Bills to be emitted by Virtue of the said Act are appropriated for
Loan to the Inhabitants of Baltimore County but before the same can
be lent out the Division of that County will take place and Part
thereof will become a distinct County by the Name of Harford
Be it therefore enacted that Eleven thousand Seven hundred and

[Bills of
Credit, to
the Amount
of 11733 1/2
Dollars, and
no more, to
be lent to
the Inhabi-
tants of
Harford
County.