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1781-1782 1 (1781)

handle is hein.ssl/sspa0220 and id is 1 raw text is: A C T OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY O F PENN S Y L V A N I A. FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, SPEAKER. I78I. PETER ZACHARY LLOYD, CLERK. C H A P T E R I. An A C T for the defence of the frontirs of this flae, and for other purpofes therein mentioned. (a) Pa.Ted zad December, 178i.-Obfolete.-Recorded in Law Book No. I. page 462. A CHAP- (a) This a& provided for the raifing of a company, in addition to four that had been raifed under the authority of a refolution of the General Affembly of the z3d of December, 1780, for the defence of a part of Northampton county, the counties of Bedford, Northumberland, Welimoreland and Wafhington, and the diftri& of Armagh, in Cumberland county. It,, likewife, authorifed the commiflioners to exonerate flor taxes fich of the inhabitants of thofe counties as were driven from their fettlements by the enemy, or flhould fland in defence of the frontiers ; and requires a lilt of the per- fons exonerated to be returned to the legiflature. ee likewile an a&, among other things, granting certain indulgencies to the fettlers on the north-wcft frontier, paffed 16th September, 1785. I iI I I II Ifll II i i i i ii i _ |, ' I