432 Assembly Proceedings, Sept. 21-Oct. 29, 1742.

Session
Laws

And be it further Enacted by the Authority, Advice and Consent
aforesaid, That if any Tobacco shall by any casualty be lost, after
the aforesaid Imposition paid, that then and in all such Cases, the
Owner or Owners of any such Ship or Vessel, or other Person paying
the same, shall have free Liberty to Freight and Ship off the like
quantity without paying the said Three Half-pence.
This Act to continue till the last Day of October which shall be in
the Year of our Lord Seventeen Hundred and Forty-three, and no

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longer.

Ch. XXII.
[Repeals
1747 Ch. 24]

An Act to enable the Rector, Vestry-men, and Church-wardens for
the Time being, of St. Anne's Parish in Anne-Arundel County,
to Lease certain Lots in the City of Annapolis, in manner and to
the uses therein mentioned.

Preamble.

Whereas the Rector, Vestry-men, and Church-wardens of
St. Anne's Parish in Anne-Arundel County, have, by their humble
Petition, represented to this present General Assembly, that they
are entitled to and possessed of Three several Lots in the City of
Annapolis, Numbered respectively 59, 60, 61, according to a Survey
of the said City, made by James Stoddert, in pursuance of an Act of
Assembly of this Province, made and passed in the Year Seventeen
Hundred and Eighteen, entituled, An Act for Settling all Disputes
concerning the Boundaries of the several Lots within the City of
Annapolis, and Confirming the same to the respective Takers-up,
Improvers, and Purchasers thereof, and for laying out Ten Acres
of Land out of the Town Pasture into Twenty Lots more, to be
added to the said City, and that the said Lots had hitherto remained
unimproved, and might do so for the future, for want of a Power
in the Rector, Vestry-men and Church-wardens of the said Parish
for the Time being, to Lease the same for Lives or Years, to such
Persons as might be willing and desirous to receive such Lease of
the Lots aforesaid, or some of them, and to Build on and otherwise
improve the same; wherefore it was by the said Petition prayed,
that Leave might be given to bring in a Bill to enable the Rector,
Vestry-men and Church-wardens of the said Parish, for the Time
being, to Lease and Demise the aforesaid Lots, or any of them,
to any Person or Persons who shall be willing and desirous to take a
Lease thereof, on such Conditions, Covenants, Provisoes, Agree-
ments and Rents, as the Rector, Vestry-men and Church-wardens
of the said Parish, for the Time being, and the Person or Persons
who shall be willing to take the same, can agree upon, and for any
Term not exceeding Three Lives, or Twenty-one Years, to the Use
and Benefit of the Incumbent of the said Parish, for the Time being,
and also at or before the Expiration or other Determination of any
of the aforesaid Terms, from Time to Time the same to renew.
Be it therefore Enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Pro-
prietary, by and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's Gov-