Acts. 559

Time being, who is hereby authorized and directed to collect the same,
and who shall have, for such Collection, at and after the Rate of
Five per cent. And the said Tobacco, when so collected, shall be paid
Yearly to the Vestrymen and Churchwardens, who are hereby author-
ized and required to apply the same to the building and finishing a new
Church in the said Parish.

Session
Laws

An Act for the Assessment of so much Tobacco on the Inhabitants
of St. Paul's Parish, in Prince-Georges County, as will build them
a new Parish Church and Chapel of Ease.

Whereas, the Vestrymen, Churchwardens, and other the Inhabi-
tants of St. Paul's Parish, in Prince-George's County, have, by their
Petition of this General Assembly, set forth, That their Parish Church
and Chapel of Ease, are so extreamly out of Repair, that there is an
absolute Necessity for building new Ones; and have prayed, that an
Act may pass, that so much Tobacco may be levied on the Taxable
Persons of the said Parish, as will enable them to build first a new
Church, and afterwards a Chapel, in such Place in the said Parish, as
shall be thought most convenient by the Majority of the Parish-
ioners,

Chap.
XXIX

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 Prince-George's County,
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 Persons of the said Parish, any
Quantity of Tobacco, not exceeding Twenty Thousand Pounds of To-
bacco in any One Year, and to continue so doing yearly, until there
shall be a sufficient Quantity of Tobacco levyed to erect and compleat a
new Church and Chapel in such Part of the said Parish, as shall be
thought most convenient by the Majority of the Parishioners; which
said Tobacco so to be levied, shall be collected by the Sheriff of Prince-
George's County, for the Time being, who is hereby authorized and
directed to collect the same; and who shall have, for such Collection,
at and after the Rate of Five per Cent. And the said Tobacco, when so
collected, shall be paid Yearly to the Vestrymen and Churchwardens,
who are hereby authorized and required to apply the same to the
building and finishing first a new Church, and then a Chapel in the
said Parish.

p. 39

An Act for raising a Duty of Three Pence per Hogshead on all
Tobacco exported out of this Province, for the Uses therein
mentioned.

Whereas, his Lordship the Right Honourable the Lord Proprie-
tary, has been pleased to constitute and appoint His Excellency

Chap. XXX
[Continued
by 1733. ch.
ii; 1736. ch.
2; expired,
1739]