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sixty two pounds and Eight pence Sterling laid out & Ex-
pended for the Publick Service of this province to the Seven-
teenth Day of December one thousand seven & Eight to the
Intent the Same may be Satisfied & paid to whome the same
is Due.
Be it Enacted by the Queens most Excellent Maj^ty by and
with the advice and Consent of her Majestys Governour Coun-
cill and Assembly of this Province and the Authority of the
same that the said Sume of Six hundred Sixty two pounds and
Eight pence mony Sterl: be satisfied and paid to Whome the
same is due out of the Publick Stock Lodged in the hands of
the Treasurers of this Province and the said Sume of three
hundred Sixty nine thousand two hundred fifty two pounds of
tobacco be paid in manner and for me as the same is sett forth
in a Journall of accounts allowed of and assented to by his
Excellency the Governour and Councill and this present Gen-
erall Assembly the Seventeenth Day of December one thousand
seven hundred & Eight.
And be it further Enacted by the authority advice & Con-
sent aforesaid that the suine of three hundred sixty nine
thousand two hundred fifty two pounds of tobacco be Levyed
and assessed by an Equall Assessment upon the Persons or
Estates of the Taxable Inhabitants of this province and be paid
to the severall Persons to whome the same is due according
to the accounts and disbursements for the necessary Charges
of this province, which have been Examined Stated and
allowed of as aforesaid Any Law Custome or Statute to the
Contrary notwithstanding.

Lib. L. L.
No. 64.

And Whereas in and by one act of Assembly of this Prov-
ince Entituled an Act of Directions for the Sherriffs office, and
for the more Easie payment of the publick and County Levy
it is Enacted that no Sherriffe within this province should Levy
by way of Execution any publick dues and officers ffees upon
the body Goods or Chattells of any the Inhabitants of this
province Except they made a demand thereof at or before the
Twentieth day of January for that Present Yeare and so
succcessively Every yeare. Therefore this Present Generall
Assembly takeing in Consideration that by Reason of their
sitting so late this winter it Is thought impossible for the
severall Sherriffs of this province to make Demands of the
publick Dues and officers ffees by the time appointed in the
afore recited Act.
Be it therefore Enacted by the authority advice and Consent
aforesaid, That for this present yeare the severall Sherriff
within this province, shall have Liberty for and Vntill the first
Day of March next, to demand the Publick Dues, and no
Longer, & that if the same be demanded by that time it shall

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