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Session
Laws
100 1.
applied to-
wards Re-
pairing a
Chappel.
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Assess and Levy on the taxable Inhabitants of the said Parish, the
aforesaid One Hundred Pounds, which said Sum of One Hundred
Pounds shall be Collected by the Sheriff of the said County, 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 Money, when so Collected, shall be paid to the said
Vestry and Church-wardens, who are hereby Authorized and Re-
quired to Apply the same towards repairing the said Chappel.
And be it further Enacted by the Authority, Advice and Consent
aforesaid, That all Tobacco or Money hereafter to be Levied by
virtue of any Act or Acts of Assembly of this Province, on Appli-
cation to the Justices of the said County, made by the Vestry and
Church-wardens of said Parish, shall be Applied as well for the
Repairing of the said Chappel as the Parish Church in the said
Parish, in such Manner and Proportion as to the Vestry-men and
Church-wardens of said Parish for the Time being shall seem most
just and reasonable.
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Chapter
VIII
Liber
B. L. C.
p. 220
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An Act for the Cutting off the Entaile and Investing an Estate of
Inheritance in fee Simple in Part of a Tract of Land called
Coopers purchase in Thomas Spalding and Katherine his wife
and to Entail other Lands lying in Saint Marys County in lieu
thereof.
Whereas a Certain Thomas Cooper late of Saint Marys County
planter deceased on the thirteenth Day of March Anno Domini
Seventeen hundred and Twenty Two made his last Will and Testa-
ment in Writing and among other things therein Contained made
the following devise (Viz) likewise all my Lands with New Town
Mill to her and to her Heirs for Ever Except my now Dwelling
Plantation during my Wife's life but after her Decease to my
Daughter Katherine and to the Heirs of her Body and in Case the
said Katherine dye without such Heirs to my Cousin Thomas
Cooper and his Heirs for Ever as by the said Will duly proved
relation being thereunto had may appear and in a Short time there-
after departed this life By Virtue of which said Will the said Thomas
is seised in Right of his wife in Fee Tail of Part of a Tract of Land
lying in Saint Marys County lately called Coopers purchase but
formerly Seymore Town or in that now known by the name of
Leonard Town And Whereas it is represented to this Present General
Assembly that the aforesaid Lands is much the worse by having the
Towns aforesaid laid out within it and is now of so little Value to
them by means aforesaid that they think it much more advan-
tagious to them to sell the same And Whereas the Land also lying at
the Head of Britains Bay in Saint Marys County called Crackburns
Purchase Containing One hundred Acres which he Conceived to be
of much more Value than the other and is desirous the same may be
settled to the same uses as the aforesaid Part of a Tract of Land
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