558 Assembly Proceedings, July 11-August 8, 1732.

Session
Laws

or Actions in his, her, or their own Name, against any Obligor or
Obligors, by Virtue of such Assignment: For removing of which
Doubt,
Be it Enacted and Declared, by the Right Honourable the Lord
Proprietary, by and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's
Governor, and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the
Authority of the same, That any Assignee or Assignees shall have
and maintain, and ought to have and maintain any Action or Actions
in the Name of such Assignee of Assignees, on any Bond, or other
Obligation, under Hand and Seal assigned, according to the Direc-
tions of the said Act, against the Obligor or Obligors; any Usage,
sr Custom, to the contrary, notwithstanding.
Provided, That where any Debt shall be lost, by the Negligence
of the Assignee or Asignees, that the Assignor or Assignors shall not
be liable, any such Assignment notwithstanding.
And provided also, That the Assignor or Assignors shall make
Oath or Affirmation, if a Quaker, before some Magistrate, that he,
she, or they hath or have received no Part of the Sum mentioned in
Such Obligation, or but such Part thereof, as shall be mentioned in
such Oath or Affirmation, at the Time of making any Assignment to
be indorsed on such Bond or Obligation.
And be it likewise Enacted, That any Person knowingly swearing
or affirming falsely, and being thereof convicted by due Course
of Law, shall suffer, as in Case of wilful and corrupt Perjury.

Chap.
XXVIII
p. 38 [a]

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An Act for the Assessment of Sixty Thousand Pounds of Tobacco
on the Taxable Inhabitants of Durham Parish, in Charles County,
for the building a Church.

Whereas the Vestrymen, and several other Inhabitants of Durham
Parish, in Charles County, by their Petition to this General Assembly,
have set forth, That their Parish Church is so decayed, that it is im-
practicable to repair it; and have prayed, that an Act may pass, that
so much Tobacco may be levied on the Taxable Persons of the said
Parish, to be paid, by equal Proportions, at Three several Times, to
enable them to build the said Church,
Be it therefore Enacted, by the Right Honourable the Lord Pro-
prietary, by and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's
Governor, and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the
Authority of the same, That the Justices of Charles County Court,
shall and may, and they are hereby authorized and directed, on the
Application of the Vestrymen and Churchwardens of the said Parish,
to assess and levy on the Taxable Inhabitants of the said Parish, the
Quantity of Sixty Thousand Pounds of Tobacco for the Uses afore-
said; but that not above the Quantity of Twenty Thousand Pounds
of Tobacco to be levied in any One Year; which said Tobacco so to
be levied, shall be collected by the Sheriff of Charles County, for the