Acts. 131

selves or Deputy, from Nine of the Clock in the Forenoon until
Sun-set, and then and there give all possible Dispatch to the neces-
sary Business of such Person or Persons as shall apply to them for

Liber B. L. C.

the same. And that every County Clerk who shall neglect or delay
to perform his Duty herein, shall forfeit and pay the Sum of Six
hundred Pounds of Tobacco; one half whereof to the Use of the
County School, and the other half to him, her or them that shall
sue for the same, to be recovered before a single Magistrate of the
County where such Forfeiture shall happen, as in Case of small
Debts.

[Penalty for
Non-
Attendance.]

Provided always, and be it Enacted, That nothing in this Act
shall extend, or be construed to extend, to prevent any Clerk from
being chargeable for any Misfeasance or Neglect in his Office, in the
same Manner as if this Act had never been made.

[Proviso.]

This Act to continue for Three Years, and to the End of the next
Session of Assembly which shall happen after the End of the said
Three Years.

[Continu-
ance.]

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.

An Act impowering the Justices of Queen-Anne's County, to levy
on the taxable Persons of Christ's-Church Parish in the said
County, the Sum of Thirty seven thousand one hundred Pounds
of Tobacco, for repairing and enlarging their Parish Church.

No. 8

p. 441

Whereas the Rector, Vestrymen, Church-Wardens and sundry
Parishioners of Christ's-Church Parish in Queen-Anne's County,
by their humble Petition to this General Assembly, representing,
that their Church is not only much too small for the Congregation
which usually resorts thereto, quietly and commodiously to perform
their religious Exercises, but is also very much out of Repair, have
prayed that an Act may pass for the Assessment of Thirty seven
thousand one hundred Pounds of Tobacco on the taxable Inhabi-
tants of the said Parish for repairing and enlarging the same ;
Be it therefore enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Pro-
prietary, by and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's Gov-
ernor, and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the

[Preamble.]

Authority of the same, That the Justices of Queen-Anne's County
shall be and they are hereby impowerecl and required, on the Appli-
cation of the Vestry and Church- Wardens of Christ's-Church Parish
in Queen-Anne's County, to assess and levy upon the taxable Inhabi-
tants of the said Parish, the Sum of Thirty seven thousand one hun-

[Queen
Anne's
County
Justices to
levy 37,100
wt. of
Tobacco.]