260 Assembly Proceedings, November 16-December 23. 1773.

Liber R. G.
1773

thirty three Dollars and one third Part of a Dollar of the said
Dollars so appropriated for Loan to the Inhabitants of Baltimore
County shall be and are hereby appropriated for Loan to the In-
habitants of the said Part of Baltimore which will be a distinct
County by the Name of Harford for the Time and in the Manner
that Bills of Credit are appropriated for Loan to the Inhabitants of
other Counties and no more of the said Bills appropriated for Loan
to the Inhabitants of Baltimore County shall be lent to the In-
habitants of Harford County as such any thing in the said Act
to the Contrary Notwithstanding.

[Commis-
sioners to
pay to the
Trustees for
the Poor
10666 2/3 Dol-
lars out of
the Bills
of Credit
appropri-
ated for
Baltimore
County.]

And be it further enacted that the Commissioners aforesaid shall
advance and pay to the Trustees for the Poor of Baltimore County by
this Act appointed or the Major Part of them or their Order or Or-
ders ten thousand Six hundred and Sixty Six Dollars and two third
Parts of a Dollar out of the Residue of the said Bills of Credit ap-
propriated by the said Act for Loan to the Inhabitants of Baltimore
County aforesaid which said Trustees or the Major Part of them
are hereby authorized and required to receive and apply the same
to the Uses and Purposes herein after Directed And for the Repay-
ments of the said ten thousand Six hundred and Sixty Six Dollars
and two third parts of a Dollar together with Interest thereon at
the Rate of four per Cent by the Year.

[Taxable
Inhabitants
of Balti-
more County
to pay 12
lb. of To-
bacco per
poll yearly
till 10666 2/3
Dollars be
raised, &c.]
p. 302

Be it enacted that each and every of the Taxable Inhabitants of
that Part of Baltimore County which after the Division of the said
County takes place will still retain the Name of Baltimore shall
until the Whole of the said ten thousand six hundred and sixty six
Dollars and two third Parts of a Dollar with Interest thereon as
aforesaid and also the Sheriffs Salary of five per Cent for Collection
thereof be fully raised on the said taxable Inhabitants yearly and
every Year pay to the Sheriff for the Time being of Baltimore
County twelve pounds of Tobacco in Tobacco or Money within the
Times and in the Manner that the public and County Levies are
payable the first of which payments to be made in the Year Seven-
teen hundred and Seventy four And the Sheriff aforesaid may and
shall collect and levy distrain and execute for the same in like
Manner as he may collect and Levy distrain and Execute for the
Public or County Levy and after deducting and retaining his Com-
mission for Collection shall pay what money shall remain of the said
twelve pounds of Tobacco per Poll rating the same in Money as the
same is payable for each Respective Year to the Commissioners
aforesaid on or before the thirty first Day of August in each Year
which Payments shall be placed by the Commissioners aforesaid to
the Credit of Baltimore County in the first Place to sink the Interest
due on the Money to be drawn out in Virtue of this Act and in the
next Place towards the Discharge of the Principal so far as the same
will extend and when the whole of the Principal shall be paid in