548 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1752.

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for the Congregation which usually resorted thereunto quietly
and commodiously to perform their religious Exercises but
was also very much out of Repair and prayed that an Act
might pass for the Assesment of 37100 Lw^t of Tobacco on
the taxable Inhabitants within the said Parish for repairing
and enlarging the said Church And your Petitioner further
sheweth that in Consequence of their said Representation An
Act did pass for the purposes abovementioned empowering
and requiring the Justices of Queen Anns County on the
Application of the Vestry and Churchwardens of the said
Parish to assess and levy upon the taxable Inhabitants thereof
37100 £ of Tobacco and the Salary of 5 p Cent to the Sheriff
for collecting the same at three equal Assesments which said
Sum of 37100 £ of Tobacco the said Act appointed the
Sheriff of Queen Anns County to collect in the same Manner
as other Publick Dues are collected and to pay the same to
the Vestry & Churchwardens to apply the same to the repair-
ing and enlarging the said Church in such manner as to them
should seem most necessary and convenient and to no other
Use or Purpose whatever. And your Petitioner further
sheweth that the Vestry and Churchwardens of the said Parish
did in pursuance of the above recited Act apply to the Justices
of Queen Anns County to assess and levy the above Quantity

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of Tobacco as by the said Act is directed That the said Jus-
tices upon the said Application did accordingly levy and
assess the aforesaid Quantity of Tobacco that the same was
collected by the Sheriff aforesaid as appointed by the said
Act and paid by him to the Vestry and Churchwardens of the
said Parish And your Petitioner further sheweth that on the
twenty first Day of May 1748 before the said Act passed, the
Vestry of the said Parish met and contracted with M^r John
Smith for the building an Addition to the said Parish Church
for the Enlargement thereof and to pay him at three equal
Payments 35000£ of Tobacco upon Condition that the Assem-
bly would assess the same as by the Proceedings of the said
Vestry ready to be produced and to which your Petitioner for
greater Certainty craves leave to refer may more fully appear.
And your Petitioner further sheweth that after the said
Act passed as afores^d the said John Smith proceeded to and
finished the Building of the said Addition according to the
Contract aforesaid And your Petitioner further sheweth that
the said Smith not being obliged by the said Contract to build
Pews in the said Addition or to repair several Pews in the
Old Building that much needed It The Vestry of the said
Parish met on the second Day of May 1750 and came to an
Agreement with One Thomas Barnes to build the Pews want-
ing in the said Addition and to repair the Pews that needed