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Acts. 569
the hands of Dan" Sherwood Late Sherr. of the said County Lib. l. l.
shall be Deemed part and the said ^°' ^^'
Justices or the Major part
of them are by this act Impowered and Required to Levy what
Tobacco above the said sum of the af*^ Eighty thousand pounds
of tobsucco shall be necessary on the Inhabitants Taxables in
the said County not Exceeding forty thousand pounds of
Tobacco above the af"* Eighty thousand pounds of Tobacco
any former act Law Usage or Custome to the Contrary notwithstanding.
2,^ Nov"^ 1710. Nov' ^^ 1710.
Read and assented to by
the house of Del" Signed
p ord'
Rich*^ Dallam CI: Ho: Del:
Read and assented to by her
Maj"'' hon'='= Council & Signed
p ord'
W Bladen CI Council.
Nov' 4"^ 1 7 10.
On the behalf of her Most Sacred Maj'" Queen Anne of
Great Britf^ &c° We will this be a Law.
Edw" Lloyd Presid' W" Holland, Rob' Quary, Sam" Young
Thomas Greenfield, Ch^ Greenberry, Jn° Hall, W" Whittington.
An Act for Continueing S' Maries County Court at the New
Court house Built at Seymour lowne otherwise Sheppard's
old ffields.
Whereas by a Cert^ Act of the Generall Assembly of this
province Entituled an Act for the Division and Regulateing
of severall County's within this province and Constituteing a
County by the name of Prince Georges County within the
same Province made at a Session of Assembly held at the
Port of Annapolis the Eighth day of May one thousand six hundred
ninety and five among other things therein Contained it
was Enacted that the place for holding the County Court of
Saint Maryes should forever thereafter be at the Citty of
Saint Mary's in the State house of the said City there formerly
built at the Cost & Charge of this province.
But for that there is now Erected & built at the Charge of
the said County a new Court house at Seymour Towne in
Sheppard's old ffields w'^'' is Represented to this present General!
Assembly as the most Convenient place for holding the
said County Court for the Easie Recourse of the Inhabitants
of the said County thereto. Be it Enacted by the Queens
most Excellent Maj'^' by and w"" the advice and Consent of
her Maj'^' Councill and Assembly of this Province and the