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men alwayes keeping a Record how and in what manner they
shall execute and performe the severall Trusts in this Act re-
posed in them and also shall procure yearly and every year
from the Constables within each hundred within their Parrishes
aforesaid or by such other waies or means as to them shall
seem expedient a true & just accompt and list of all Taxable
Persons within their Parrish aforesaid and the same yearly and
every year cause to be recorded amongst their other Proceed-
ings, the better to Enable them to know what sum or sums of
Tobac^o to demand and require' of the Sherriff of the County
for the use of their Parish aforesaid, as by this Act hereafter
shall be raised for the uses aforesaid, That is to say, That a
Tax or assessment of forty pounds of Tobacco p pole be yearly
and in every year raised and levyed upon every Taxable
Person within each Parrish aforesaid, and to be collected and
gathered by the Sherriff of the County in manner and form as
the publick or County Levies hitherto have and still are col-
lected and gathered which said Sherriff is to make punctuall
payment of the said Tax or Assessment to the Vestrymen of
each Parrish as aforesaid, of so much Tobacco as by the Tax
aforesaid shall be raised w^thin each Parrish, the said Sherriff
deducting his Salary for collecting the same, five pounds of
Tobacco p Cent, which said Tobacco so Assessed and raised
as aforesaid shall always and after the building of a Church or
Chappell w^thin each Parrish as aforesaid be appropriated and
applyed by the Vestrymen aforesaid to the use and benefit of
the Minister of that Parrish if any Minister Inducted into the

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same, But if no Minister be Inducted into the Parrish, then the
same Tobacco or such part thereof as by the said Vestry men
shall be thought convenient to be kept and made use on for
the necessary reparations of the Church or Chappell aforesaid
or other pious uses at the discretion of the Vestry men afore-
said. And to the end that any gift bequest Grant ordination
or appointment by any person or persons which shall be so
piously inclined either by their last Wills and Testaments or
by Deed Executed in their life time to give grant or anyways
appoint or bestow any sum or sums of Money Tobaccos
Goods or Chattells Lands Tenements or hereditaments of
what nature or kind soever for the use and benefit of any
Minister or Ministers or to the Ministry or Poor of any
Parrish or Parrishes within this Province, the Vestrymen for
the same Parrish by this Act are Impowered and Authorized
to take the same into their Custody and Possession and apply
to the use and intent of the Donor or Donors And the better
to enable them to recover and receive the same, they are here-
by fully and absolutely Empowered Authorized and Qualified
to prosecute and maintein any Action or Actions whatsoever,

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