184 Assembly Proceedings, May 21-June 16, 1730.

Session
Laws

And Be It Further Enacted, by and with the Authority, Advice
and Consent aforesaid, That all and every Clause or Clauses, Article
or Articles mentioned in any Act of Assembly of this Province hereto-
fore made, relating to the ascertaining and limiting of Attornies Fees,
only be, and are hereby declared to be repealed, abrogated, and made
void, to all Intents, Constructions, and Purposes.

p. 43

This Act to continue for Three Years, and to the End of the next
Session of Assembly that shall first happen after the End of the said
Three Years.

Chap.
XXIII
Amends
1702, ch. 1

A Supplementary Act to the Act, Intituled, An Act for the Establish-
ment of Religious Worship in this Province, according to the
Church of England, and for the Maintenance of Ministers.

Whereas, by the Act, Intituled, An Act for the Establishment of
Religious Worship in this Province, according to the Church of
England, and for the Maintenance of Ministers, select Vestries in
each Parish of this Province, are directed to be chosen, in the Manner,
and with the Qualifications mentioned by the said Act, and Two new
Vestrymen annually chosen, in the Place of Two others, who should
be left out; but no Provision is made by the said Act, for oblig-
ing such Person or Persons who should be chosen, by Virtue of the
aforesaid Act, as a Vestryman or Vestrymen to serve and act in the
Duty and Office of a Vestryman or Vestrymen, nor any Directions
prescribed by the said Act, in what Order or Method the Two Vestry-
men, directed by the said Act to be annually left out, should be
so left out :
Be It Enacted, by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary, by
and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's Governeur, and
the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the Authority of the
same, That if any Person or Persons shall, after this Session of
Assembly, be chosen and elected, by Virtue of the aforesaid Act, as a
Vestryman or Vestrymen in any Parish of this Province; and being
so chosen or elected, shall (after convenient Notice thereof to him
or them given, by the Register of the respective Parish or Parishes
where he or they shall be so chosen and elected as aforesaid) refuse
or neglect to repair to and be present at the next Meeting of such
Vestry or Vestries; and there qualify him or themselves as such
Vestryman or Vestrymen, without a reasonable Excuse, after such
Notice to them given as aforesaid; and Notice of such Meeting to
be given to him or them by the said Register, who is hereby directed
and required to give such Notice, under the Penalty and Forfeiture of
One Thousand Pounds of Tobacco, that then every Vestryman so
refusing or neglecting as aforesaid, shall forfeit and pay the Quantity
of One Thousand Pounds of Tobacco. And the Two Vestrymen
mentioned by the said Act, to be annually left out, shall and are hereby
directed to be the Two eldest Vestrymen; and which said Two