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McLean, John Hill, Chritian Carpenter, and James White, be, and are hereby appointed Commiioners for the Purpoes aforeaid; and they, or a Majority of them, are hereby impowered and required to agree and contract with Workmen for building a Court-Houe, Prion, and Stocks, for the Ue of the aid County, at uch Place as they hall think mot convenient, on that Tract of Land purchaed by the late Commiioners for that Purpoe, and caue the ame to be completed within the Term of Two Years.

III. AND be it further Enacted, by the Authority aforeaid, That the aid Commiioners herein named hall have, and they are hereby declared to have full Power and Authority to demand, ue for, recover, and receive, of and from the late Sheriffs of aid County, or other Perons in whohe Hands the ame may be lodged, all and every Sum and Sums of Money which have been laid as a Tax or Taxes on the Inhabitants of aid County for the Purpoe aforeaid, for which the Sheriff or other Perons, or any of them, are liable; and in Cae of Failure or Neglect in paying the aid Monies to the Commiioners aforeaid by the aid Sheriffs, other Perons, or any of them, he or they o failing or neglecting, hall be liable to the ame Penalties, and the ame Mode of Recovery hall be had againt him or them, as by Law hall or may be had againt Sheriffs who neglect or refue to account for and pay Public Taxes.

IV. AND whereas a certain Tax was laid on the Inhabitants of aid County by the Jutices thereof, in Virtue of an Act of Aembly paed in the Year of our Lord One Thouand Seven Hundred and Seventy Four, which Tax hath not been collected, no Officer having been appointed to receive the ame; Be it therefore Enacted, by the Authority aforeaid, That the Jutices of the aid County of Tryon hall have, and they are hereby declared to have full Power and Authority to enforce the aid Tax, or revere it, and lay another Tax ufficient to compleat the Buildings aforeaid, which Tax laid or enforced by Virtue of this Act hall be collected and accounted for by the Sheriff of the aid County; and on Neglect of the Sheriff to account for and pay the ame to the Commiioners herein before named, he hall be liable to ame Pains and Penalties, and the ame Mode of Recovery hall be had againt him, as by Law may be had againt Sheriffs who neglect or refue to account for and pay Public Taxes.



HEREAS the Public Buildings for the County of Guilford are not yet finihed, on Account of the Tax levied for that Purpoe not being all collected, by Reaon of the Courts of Jutice being dicontinued: For Remedy whereof,

II. BE it Enacted, by the General Aembly of the State of North-Carolina, and by the Authority of the ame, That Ralph Gorrell, Robert Lindey, John Collier, Alexander Caldwell, and Charles Bruce, Equires, be, and they are hereby