Acts. 303

severall Churches or Chappells aforesaid within their respective
parishes and in their precincts are held and to render an Account
thereof to the Court who are hereby Impowered where any
such lands shall appear to be given and not confirm'd as afore-
said in open Court to examine Witnesses in perpetuam rei
Memoriam and the same Cause to be recorded in the County
Records which shall be deem'd adjudged and taken in all

Lib. L. L.
No. 64.

Courts of Record within this Province as Sufficient proof of
the Donation or Grant as also to the Quantity of Acres given
or Granted as aforesaid And in Case it shall appear upon such
Examination that Lands have been given for the use of
any Church Chappell or Churchyard as aforesaid but the
Quantity thereof not mention'd by the Donors or Grantors
thereof as aforesaid That then and in every such Case the
Vestry of the respective parish where such Gift or Grant hath
been made and the Quantity not ascertain'd as aforesaid may
demand and take of such lands for the use of the Church and
thereto adjacent two Acres and no more which they shall
Cause to be Surveyed and Staked out and make returns of
two Certificates thereof One of which must be recorded in the
County Court and the other in the high Court of Chancery there
to be registered inperpetuam rei Memoriam as aforesaid.
And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid by and
with the Advice and Consent aforesaid that where the Vestry
of any Parish within this Province have or shall think Con-
venient to place either Church or Chappell of Ease within their
respective Parishes for the better Conveniency of their parish-
ioners but the Owner or Owners of such Land Chosen out and
appointed by such Vestry as aforesaid for the use of their parish
aforesaid either refuse to make Sale thereof or are unreasonable
in his or their Demands for the same or otherwise incapacitated
by nonage non sanae Memoriae or beyond the Seas That then
and in every such Case the respective Vestrys of the respective
parishes shall apply themselves to the Comissioners of the
County Court whereto they belong Upon whose Application
the said Comissioners shall forthwith grant their warrants to
the Sheriff of their County thereby requiring him at a certain
day and time to be by them nominated and appointed to
impannell a lury of Substantiall ffreeholders next adjacent to
the Land in quest aforesaid which said Comissioners and Jury
aforesaid shall proceed in all things as by another Act of
Assembly (Intituled An Act Impowering the Comissioners of
the severall and respective Countys to take up and purchase
land for their County Court houses) they are directed not
exceeding two Acres as before in this Act mencond and
expressed. Any thing in this Act or any other ordain'd to the
Contrary notwithstanding.

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