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Acts. 607
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to make choice of a suitable Person for a Clerk, to attend upon them
for the Purposes herein directed; and likewise to pay such Clerk,
and other Charges which shall arise on the Execution of this Act, by
an Allowance to be made in Assessment and Levy of the County
aforesaid.
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Session
Laws
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And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the
said Commissioners, or the major Part of them, shall and may, and
they are hereby empowered and authorized to adjourn their said
Meeting from the Court-House aforesaid, to such Place or Places,
and at such Time and Times, and from Place to Place, and Time to
Time, as to them, or the major Part of them, shall seem needful and
requisite to and for the Intents and Purposes aforesaid.
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And may
adjourn to
what Time
or Place
they shall
see requisite.
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And be it likewise Enacted by the Authority, Advice, and Consent
aforesaid, That the said Commissioners, or the major Part of them,
shall, and they are hereby empowered, authorized, and directed to
lay out, or cause to be laid out, divided, and separated, the said
County of St. Mary's into Four different and distinct Parishes, by
suitable, natural, and artificial Lines, Buttments, and Boundaries,
with Regard to the Conveniency of the People, and so as the Num-
ber of Taxables in the said County, may be as equally divided into
the same Four Parishes, as near as the Nature of the Thing will
admit of.
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Commis-
sioners are
to lay out
and divide
the said
County into
4 Parishes.
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And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the
said Commissioners, or the major Part of them, shall cause the
Division of the said County by them to be made, into four Parishes,
as aforesaid, to be fairly and distinctly entered in a Book, by natural
and artificial Bounds and Courses, as aforesaid, in Four different
and distinct Certificates, which said Four Certificates shall be by
them the said Commissioners, or the major Part, returned to the
Clerk of the said County and be by him entered among the Records
of the same County, and he the said Clerk for the Time being, is
hereby impowered, authorized, and directed to make such Entry
among the Records of the same County, there to remain as the true
and indisputable Bounds of the said Parishes respectively.
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Boundaries
of the said
Parishes to
be entered
in the
County
Records.
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And be it likewise Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the
said Commissioners, or the major Part of them, shall cause Dupli-
cates of the same Certificates or Divisions of the Parishes aforesaid,
to be returned to the Vestry of each Parish now in the said County,
or which hereafter shall be; which Vestries respectively are hereby
authorized, impowered, and directed to cause the respective Clerks
or Registers of their said Vestries to enter in the Record-Books or
Registers of the same Vestries respectively, such Certificates of the
Divisions of the Parishes aforesaid.
And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the
said Division, so as aforesaid directed to be made, and recorded in
the said County-Court Office, and the Registries of the said Four
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And also in
the Regis-
ters of the
respective
Vestries.
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