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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe, 1757-1761
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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 343

to these Fines runs as follows "And if any Person presume to
contract Marriage without such Publication & Certificate
thereof had as afd or without particular Lycence from the
Governor for the time being do privately contract Marriage
every Man so contracted or married shall be liable to a Fine
of 5000lbs Tobo & every such Minister joining in marriage any
Persons without Publication or Lycence or anyways infringing
this Act shall be liable to a Fine of 5ooolbs Tobo One half of
the said Fines to the Lord Proprietary his Heirs & Successors
for the Support of Governl of this Province, the other half to
the Informer.
The Gentln who presented the abovementioned Petition
have likewise intreated me further to sollicit his Ldp's Favour
to Mr Bacon by permitting me to induct him to the Parish of
All Saints in Frederick County which was some time ago
vacated by the Death of Mr Hunter or into a pretty large Part
of it in Case His Ldp has no Objection to its being divided.
It contained in the Year 1753 as the List I some time ago sent
you will shew 2215 Taxables whose Thirty pr poll if they were
all to pay in Money (as most of them do) would amount to
£394. 10 Curcy clear of the five pr Ct payable to the Sheriff for
Collecting: As this is the Frontier Parish the Incursions of
the Indians have for some time prevented its increasing as it
would have otherwise done, but notwithstanding this Calamity
the Numbr of Parishioners is greater at present than it was in 		Letter Bk. IV
the Year 1753 tho I believe some of them are rendered unable
to pay. After Mr Hunter's Decease Several of the Parishion-
ers addressed a Petition to Myself & the two Houses of As-
sembly wherein they represented that the Parish of All Saints
was too extensive for one Clergyman it being more than 100
Miles long & in some Places more than 30 wide so that Num-
bers lived too remote to attend Divine Service nor could the
Rector easily Visit them on any Account that in their opinion
the Amount of the 30 pr poll payable by the Inhabitants of the
said Parish would well support two Clergymen & they con-
cluded with praying that the Parish might be therefore divided
in such manner as to the Legislature should seem fit. Being
unwilling to give my Assent to such an Act before I could
know whether it would be agreeable to His Ldp or not I
desired the Gentn of the Upper House to retain the Petition
in their hands but if His Ldp approves thereof they will pre-
pare a Bill for a Division of the Parish & send it down at the
next Session. In the mean time I have at the Request of
the Council appointed Mr Bacon as a Reader in the whole
Parish & he has employed an Assistant at the Rate of £100 a
Year, & Mr Bacon has thereupon assigned over what shall
become due to him as Rector of St Peters in Talbot County 		p. 41


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