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after the Publication of this Act, set up, and constantly keep up and
fixed, a printed Copy of this Act, in the most convenient Part of his
or her House, to be read by all Persons, for their better Information,
on pain of forfeiting Five Pounds Current Money, for the Use afore-
said; to be recovered in the County Court, as aforesaid.
And be it further Enacted, by the Authority, Advice, and Consent
aforesaid, That an Act of Assembly, made at a Session of Assembly,
begun and held at the City of Annapolis, the Twenty Eighth Day of
October, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Twelve, entituled, An
Act, Restraining Victuallers, and Keepers of Publick Houses, from
Entertaining of Sailors to the Prejudice of Trade and Commerce,
be, and is hereby repealed, abrogated, and made null and void.
This Act to continue for Three Years, and to the End of the next
Session of Assembly, which shall happen after the Expiration of the
said Three Years.

Session
Laws

An Act, impowering the Rector, Vestrymen, and Churchwardens, of
King and Queen Parish, in St. Mary's and Charles Counties, to
purchase Two Acres of Land, in the said Parish, in St. Mary's
County, to build a Church on; and for raising a Fund, as well to
compleat the said Purchase, and Building, as to repair Newport
Church, in Charles County, within the said Parish.

Whereas it is represented and made appear to this present General
Assembly, by the Rector, Vestrymen, and Churchwardens, of King
and Queen Parish, lying in St. Mary's, and Charles Counties, that
Bushwood Church, in the said Parish, is not only situate in a remote
Corner thereof, but is so far decayed, that it cannot be repaired,
without greater Expences to the Parishioners than the Building a

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new One; and tbat Newport Church, in the said Parish, stands in
Need of very considerable Repairs, the Expences whereof cannot be
discharged but by an Act of Assembly, for those Purposes made ;
which they have prayed may be Enacted :
Be it therefore Enacted, by the Right Honourable the Lord Pro-
prietary, by and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's
Governour, and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and
the Authority of the same, Tbat the Rector, Vestrymen, and Church-
wardens, or the major Part of them, be and are hereby authorized
and impowered, to agree for, and purchase, Two Acres of Land, in
the most convenient Part of St. Mary's County, which is in the said
Parish; to be determined at a Meeting at Chaptico, of the Freeholders
living in the said Parish, at a Time to be appointed by the Rector,
giving publick Notice in the Church, during the Time of divine
Service, the Two Sundays next preceding the Time so to be ap-
pointed, and to cause a new Brick Church to be built thereon; which

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