Acts. 483

Acres of Land to be worth shall be paid to the said Owners and
Persons Interested by the Vestrymen and Church wardens aforesaid
out of the money to be Levied as aforesaid which said two acres so
to be Valued as shall be surveyed by the Surveyor of the County
and Staked out and Certificate thereof made & returned by the said
Surveyor with the Plat thereof to the Vestrymen and Church War-
dens which said Certificate so returned shall be Entered on the
Register Book of the said Parish and there to remain as the un-
doubted bounds of the said two Acres of Land forever, And Be it
further Enacted that the free holders of the said Parish shall and
may on the third Tuesday of June next Ensueing meet at Chaptico
Bridge in the said Parish and there proceed to vote and Appoint
where the new Church aforesaid shall stand which place so by the
said Freeholders or the Major part of them then present chosen shall
be Entered by the Register of the said Parish among the Records
thereof as the place where the said new Church shall be built

Lib. B. L. C.

An Act for the building a Court House and Repository for the
Records in Leonard Town in Saint Marys County
Whereas the Magistrates of Saint Marys County Court by their
Humble petition to this General Assembly have set forth that the
Present Court House of the said County is so far Impaired and
Decayed that the Records of the same County Cannot be kept therein
with Safety and have therefore prayed An Act may pass as well to
Enable them to build them a Repository for the Safe Custody of the
said Records for the present as for the Building a new Court House
EC it Therefore Enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Pro-
prietary by and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordships Gov-
ernour and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly and the
Authority of the same that the Justices of Saint Marys County
Court or the Major part of them be and are hereby Authorized and
Empowered to Treat Contract and Agree with any Builders Work-
men or Undertakers for the Erecting and building of a Repository
and Court House with Brick in Leonard Town in the County afore-
said upon parts of the Land there now belonging to the County
af^d and the Charges and Expences of the said Buildings not Exceed-
ing fifteen Hundred pounds to Raise and Levy by an Equal Assess-
ment in four years in Money upon the Taxable Inhabitants of the
same County

Chap. XIV
p. 153

An Act to render the Navigation up Patuxent River above Queen
Anne Town in Prince Georges County more Easy and Effectual.

Whereas Richard Snowden on behalf of himself and his other
Partners Concerned in the Iron Works on Patuxent River hath by
his Humble Petition to this Generall Assembly set forth that Patux-
ent River from Queen Anns Town in Prince Georges County is

Chap. XV
p. 154