528 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1751.

Lib. C. B.

ship Our Zeal in promoting the Honour of this Government
and Prosperity of the Country so intimately connected with
your Lordships, as well by earnest Endeavours in Our Several
Stations, as unfeigned Wishes that a Series of Health and
Length of Days to your Lordship may be exceeded only by a
Continuance of the Blessings to be derived to Maryland from
your Lordships Accession to Its Proprietorship
Sam: Ogle
B Tasker Presid'

P. 464

Read the following Petition of several of the Parishioners
of William and Mary Parish in Charles County

To his Excellency Samuel Ogle Esq^r Governor of Maryland
and to the Honourable the Council

The Petition of Some of the Principal Inhabitants and
Freeholders of William & Mary Parish in Charles
County
Humbly Sheweth

Whereas it appears by the Register of the s^d Parish that in
the year 1692 a Subscription was made by the then Parishion-
ers and other Charitable Persons Amounting to the Quantity
of 30300 Pounds of Tobacco, 30000 pounds of which was
applyed to the building, Seating and compleating a Church
in the said Parish; And by the said Register it also Appears
that in the year 1722, an Addition was made to the said
Church and Seated, the Expence whereof was 10000 Pounds
of Tobacco which was Paid by a Parish Tax, on the then Inhab-
itants, and that the said Church and Addition have ever Since
their first building been supported and Repaired by a like
Tax, as Necessity required; And further by Virtue of An Act
of Assembly made and Provided in the year 1750 a large

Addition has been built finished & Compleated and necessary

Repairs made, and Agreed for to the Old Church, to the
Amount of 21500 pounds of Tobacco, One half of which
Expences are now Paid by a Parochial Assessment Levied,
and made, the other half to be made and Levied the Ensuing
year by Virtue of the Act of Assembly af^d, and in Conformity
to the Contract the Vestry of the said Parish are under; And
as not only the first Part of the Church but both Additions are
well furnished with 33 Pews besides two Gallerys for the ease
and commodious performing Religious Exercises, none of
which have ever yet been Assigned or Alloted to any Particu-
lar Person or Persons Family or Familys (the Minister only
Excepted) but have remained and been used in common by
the Parishioners, and others without any Respect to Persons