126 Assembly Proceedings, May 10-June 11, 1748.

Liber B. L. C.

hath hitherto been omitted to be Recorded and forasmuch as it
appears to this Present General Assembly that the Allegations set
forth in the Petition afs^d are True and that the Consideration Money
for the Land aforesaid hath been really and Bona fide paid and
Publick Notice given of the Petitioners Intentions to Apply to the
Assembly for Releif in the Premisses, It is therefore Humbly prayed
that it may be Enacted, And Be it Enacted by the Right Honourable
the Lord Proprietary by and with the Advise and Consent of His
Lordships Governor and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assem-
bly and the Authority of the same that the Clerk of Ann Arundel
County Court aforesaid for the time being shall and may and
he is hereby Authorized and required to receive the Deed aforesaid
Executed by the aforesaid, William Mitchel. Edward Mitchel and
Grace his Wife to Mordecai Moore deceased into his Office and the
same to enter on Record amongst the Records of the same County
together with the Acknowledgement thereon and that the same Deed
being so Recorded and entered within Six Months from the end of
this present Session of Assembly shall be and is hereby Declared and
Enacted to be as good and Valid in Law to all Intents Constructions
and Purposes whatsoever as if the same Deed had been Recorded
according to the directions of the Act of Assembly in Force at the
time of Perfecting the same the Neglect or Omission aforesaid or
any other matter or thing to the Contrary Notwithstanding, Saving
to his most Sacred Majesty his Heirs and Successors to the Right
Honourable the Lord Proprietary his Heirs and Successors and to
all Bodys Politic or Corporate and all others not mentioned in this
Act their several and Respective Rights

June 4^th 1748
Read & Assented to by
the Lower House of As-
sembly
Signed p Order
M. Macnemara Cl lo. ho.

On behalf of the Right
Honourable the Lord
Proprietary of this Prov-
ince I will this be a Law
Sam: Ogle

the Great Seal in
wax appendant.

4^th June 1748
Read & Assented to by
the Upper House of As-
sembly
Signed p Order
J. Ross Cl. Up. Ho.

No. 6

An Act impowering the Justices of Worcester County, to levy on
the taxable Inhabitants of All-hallows Parish in the said County,
a Sum not exceeding Eighty thousand Pounds of Tobacco, for
the Uses therein mentioned.

[ Preamble.]

Whereas the Vestrymen, Church-Wardens and sundry of the
principal Inhabitants of the Parish of All-hallows in the County
of Worcester, have, by their humble Petition to this present General
Assembly, set forth, That the Parish Church for Preaching and
Propagating the Protestant Religion as by Law established, stand-

p. 438

ing in Snow-Hill Town, within the Parish and County aforesaid,
being very ancient is much gone to decay, so that the Petitioners