286 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1742.

Lib. C. B.

That on the third Day of August 1737 the s^d Jacob Hen-
derson by Deed of Gift gave the said Chappel with four
Acres of Land to his Lordship the right honble the Lord
Proprietary for the Use of the said Parish
That the said Henderson having at his own Expences new
shingled the said Chappel acquainted those that had Seats
there, that He expected they would thereafter at their own
Expence keep it in Repair.
That your Pet^rs and several of the remote Inhabitants of the
said Parish conceiving it reasonable, as they paid a ratable
Part for the Repairs of the Mother Church with those that did
attend and had the benefit of Divine Worship in said Church,
that the Parishioners attending said Church should likewise
joyn with your Pet" for repairing the said Chappel, At an
Assembly held in May 1741 petitioned the then General
Assembly, and therein set forth the before recited p raises, and
likewise that if the said Chappel should go to Ruin, It would

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run the Parish to a great Charge, there being a Necessity for
a Chappel in that Part of the said Parish; They therefore
prayed that an Act might pass impowering the Justices of the
said County to levy on the taxable Persons of said Parish One
hundred Pounds Current money to compleat the Repairs of
the said Chappel, and that the same might be deemed a
Chappel of the said Parish, and thereafter repaired at the
parish Charge, whereupon An Act passed agreeable to the
Prayer of the Petition
Your Pet" likewise humbly shew that from the time af^d
Your Pet^rs enjoyed their Seats and Benches without any man-
ner of Interruption or Molestation, until about the middle of
June last, the Vestry Clerk gave Notice, that the Vestry had
resolved to lay the Chappel out into Pews, and that they de-
sired the Parishioners to meet them on the third Tuesday in
August following to treat on that Affair
At which Day several of the Parishioners that frequent the
Chappel met and expostulated with the Vestry in hopes to
have prevailed with them not to alter their Seats, or to permit
the Parishioners to vote whether the Chappel should be laid
into Pews or not, and were told by One of the Vestry, that
they would not admit of their Votes, and by another that they
(the Vestry) were come there to lay it into Pews, and if they
were injured he supposed they knew how to help themselves,
and accordingly the Vestry without Consent of the Minister
proceeded to lay said Chappel into Pews, as appears by Copy
of said Vestry's Proceedings hereunto annexed
And your Petitioners likewise shew that some of the Parish^rs
belonging to the Chappel who were displeased with their
Proceedings and who before had Seats and Benches therein,