644 Assembly Proceedings, May 16-July 11, 1747.

Session Laws

Petition, further set forth, that the said Parish is so large, and lies
so inconvenient, that a vast many of the Inhabitants thereof cannot
possibly come to the Parish Church when Erected as aforesaid, and
therefore pray that a further Sum of Fifty Pounds Current Money,
may be also raised and levied as aforesaid, and applied towards
Building a Chapel already begun, standing between Monoccasy and
Seneca Creek; and that the like Sum of Fifty Pounds may be also
raised, levied and applied, towards erecting one other Chapel at some
Place between Anti-eatum and Connogocheague; and that the said
Two Chapels may be adopted Chapels of Ease in said Parish for
Ever: All which being by this present General Assembly, thought
reasonable; It is humbly prayed that it may be Enacted,

Vestry of all
Saints
Parish to
purchase 3
Acres of
Land where-
on to build
one Church
and 2
Chapels

And be it Enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprie-
tary, by and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's Gover-
nor, and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the Au-
thority of the same, That the Vestrymen and Church-wardens of
All-Saints Parish, in Prince-George's County aforesaid, or the major
Part of them, and are hereby, authorized and impowered, to agree
for, and purchase, Three Acres of Land, at the most convenient
Places in the said Parish, for the erecting a Parish Church, and Two
Chapels of Ease, for the use and benefit of the Parishioners afore-
said, which said Church, and Chapels of Ease so to be Built thereon,
shall be, and are hereby constituted and deemed, a Church, and
Chapels of Ease, of the said Parish, and shall for ever hereafter be
respectively supported and repaired at the Charge of the said Parish.

300 l. to be
levied for
that purpose

And be it further Enacted, That the Justices of Prince-George's
County Court aforesaid, or of the County wherein the said Parish
shall be, shall and may, and they are hereby authorized and directed,
on the application of the Vestry-men and Church-wardens of the
aforesaid Parish, to assess and levy by two even and equal Assess-
ments, on the taxable Inhabitants of the same Parish, the sum of
Three Hundred Pounds Current Money, to be paid by the Parish-
ioners by the Tenth Day of April yearly, which said Assessments
so to be levied, shall be collected by the Sheriff of Prince-George's
County, or of the County wherein the said Parish shall be, for the
Time being, who is hereby authorized and required to collect the
same, and shall have for such Collection after the rate of Five per
Centum, and the said Money, when so collected, shall be paid to the
Vestry-men and Church-wardens aforesaid, who are hereby author-
ized and required to apply the same to the uses aforesaid, in such
manner as to them shall seem meet.

p. 42
Chapter XI

; An Act continuing an Act, entituled, An Act to prevent cutting up
Tobacco-Plants, destroying of Tobacco and Tobacco-Houses, and
for ascertaining the Punishment of Criminals guilty of the said
Offences.

Continua-
tion of ar
Act

Be it Enacted, by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary, by
and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's Governor, and