At a session held at St. Mary's August 16 ~ September 17, 1681
Charles Calvert Lord Baltimore Proprietary
His Lordship in Person
The Upper House of Assembly
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An Act for paymt & assessing the publicke charges of this province
Whereas there hath beene ffive hundred fforty seaven Thousand Six hundred & Six pounds of tobacco expended laid out & disbursed by the vpper & Lower houses of this present Genl Assembly & by Severall others
the good people of this Province for the publike good of the same & to the intent the same may bee satisfied & paid to those persons to whom the same is due
Bee itt therefore enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord ProprY by & with the advice & Consent of the vpper & Lower houses of this prsent Genml Assembly & the Authority of the same, that the said ffive Hundred fforty Seaven Thousand Six Hundred & Six pds of Tobacco to bee paid in manner & forme as in heereafter expressed....
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....to Ja Wheeler
to Wm Wells
to Geo Groves
to Ffra Harrison
To Edwd ffranner
to Jno Lambert
to Wm Newman
to Richard Duraden
to Wm Ward
To Hen Adams
to Wm Hatch
to Wm Hatton
to Ffran Sheffield
to Elionr Beane
to Lawrence Young
to Jno Conney
to Alex Standish
To humph Jones
to Edwd Abbott
to Jo Manning
to Rich Hodgson
to Tho Crackson
to Kenelm Mackloughlin
to Rich New
to Adam Boucher
to Mathew Dike
to Ralph Barlett
to Robt Potts
to Leiwes Jones
to Math Herman
to Nich Cooper
to John Hawkins
to Geo Guest
TO Jno Smallwood
TO Cornelius Maddox &
to Jo Woolfe
each of them one Thousand Eight hundred pds of Tob.