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to the Publick Treasurer as aforesaid &c. That then his
Matys Attorney Generall att the Comand of his Excellency
shall Cause the said fine of Two hundred pounds to be
Estreated and leavied in his Matys name to the uses aforesaid
as if the said fine had been Condemned in the Provinciall
Court before the Justices of the said Court and to be paid to
the Publick Treasurer as aforesaid to be Accomptable therefore
to the Generall Assembly. And whereas Henry Crofts a
Bricklayer and Thomas Fielder Carpenter Engaged to the

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afores^d Edward Dorsey by Covenant to undertake no other
Considerable piece of work till the Said Church intended to
be built should be finished and that the said Edward Dorsey is
hereby disengaged from his Covenant about the Said Church
Be it therefore Enacted that the said Henry Crofts be in like
manner from henceforth disengaged from their said Contract
with the Said Edward Dorsey as farr as relates to the Church
and whereas the said Edward Dorsey hath Acknowledged
before this Generall Assembly that he the s^d Edward Dorsey
hath allready received the Sume of three hundred thirty three
pounds Six shillings Eight pence in part of Payment for and
Towards the building the s^d Intended to be built Church and
hath Confessed that he hath nothing to say to the Contrary
but that he ought to refund and pay back the Said Three
hundred Thirty three pounds Six shillings Eight pence Be it
therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that the s^d
Edward Dorsey be and is hereby Convict of the said Debt of
three hundred thirty three pounds Six shillings Eight Pence to
be paid to our Sovereigne Lord the King for & Towards
building a Church in the Porte of Annapolis in as full and
Sure maner as if he had Confessed Judgm^t for the said Sume
in the Provinciall Court of this Province and that the Said
Sume of three hundred thirty three Pounds Six Shillings and
Eight pence att the Comand and Discretion of his Excellency
the present Governor Nathaniel Blakiston Esq^r may be leavied
by such Writt of Execution as his said Excellency shall make
Choice of And be it further Enacted That the foundation of
the Church af^d Such as it is be by the said Edward Dorsey

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abandoned for his Neglect and be free and Clear to the Next
undertaker And be it further Enacted that the fine of one
Thousand pounds of Tobbacco Imposed by this Present Gen-
erall Assembly on Col William Pierce high Sherriffe of Cecill
County be Applied to the Comon use of that County and that
the Comissioners of the said County Cause the said Col
William Pierce to give and Allow the said County att laying
of the next leavy of the said County Creditt for the said
Thousand pounds of Tobbacco w^ch if the said Col William
Pierce shall refuse to do Effectually that then the Chiefe Justice

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