378 Assembly Proceedings, Oct. 2-Nov. 17, 1753.

Liber H. S.
No. I

Current Money on the taxable Inhabitants of the same County, for
the Time being, to be collected by the Sheriff of the County aforesaid,
in the Levy aforesaid, and to be by him paid to the Commissioners
aforesaid, by them to be applied for the Uses and Purposes as the
other Moneys aforesaid hereby directed to be applied.

[The Com-
missioners
to apply the
Money.]

And be it further Enacted, by the Authority, Advice and Consent
aforesaid, That the Commissioners aforesaid, or any Two of them,
when and as soon as the Moneys aforesaid, or so much thereof as

shall be sufficient for the Purpose herein mentioned, shall be by them

raised and received, therewith to purchase and procure Fire-Engines,
with the necessary Appurtenances, as good and convenient as can be
had for such Moneys, and to appoint a Place in the said Town as

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convenient as may be, for the general Benefit of the Inhabitants of
the same, and thereon to cause a House to be built, wherein to lodge
the same safe from the Injuries of Weather, and that the Key of
such House shall be put in the Possession of some Person living
near such House, and by him or her kept so as every one having Occa-
sion for such Engines, may have ready Access thereto.

17^th Novem- 1753
Read and Assented to
by the Lower House of
Assembly
Signed p Order
M Macnemara Cl lo ho.

On behalf of the Right
Honourable the Lord
Proprietary of this Prov-
ince I will this be a Law
Hor.° Sharpe

the great seal in
Wax Appendant

17 Novem.^r 1753
Read and Assented to
by the Upper House of
Assembly
Signed p Order
J. Ross Cl Up Ho

No. 29

An Act impowering the Justices of Prince-George's County, to levy
on the taxable Inhabitants of the said County, a Sum of Tobacco
for the Uses therein mentioned.

[Preamble.]

Whereas sundry of the Inhabitants of Prince-George's County, by
their humble Petition to this General Assembly, have set forth, that
the Re-building the Prison of the said County, on the Lot of Land
whereon the Court-House now stands, and on which Lot the same
Prison, by a former Act of Assembly is directed to be built, would
(in Case the same should take Fire) not only greatly endanger the
Court-House, but also the Records of the said County, and have
prayed that an Act may pass, impowering the Justices of Prince-
George's County, to levy a Sum not exceeding Three Thousand
Pounds of Tobacco, to be applied in the Purchase of a Lot of Ground
in Upper-Marlborough Town, as may seem most convenient and safe,
whereon to build the said County Prison :

[3000 lbs. of
Tobacco, to
be levied in
Pr. George's
County; ]

Be it therefore Enacted, by the Right Honourable the Lord Pro-
prietary, by and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's
Governor, and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the
Authority of the same, That the Justices of Prince-George's County,