Acts. 139

as fully, clearly and absolutely held and enjoyed by the Inhabitants
of the said Town, or Owner or Owners of Lots therein, as if the
same had been laid out at first, or by Virtue of either of the afore-
said Acts.

Liber B. L. C.

Provided always, That the several Matters and Things to be done
by Virtue of this Act, be finished and compleated at some Time
on or before the First Day of May, which shall be in the Year of
our Lord God, One thousand seven hundred and forty nine.

[Proviso.]

June 7^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

7^th June 1748
Read and Assented to
by the Upper House of
Assembly
Signed p Order
J Ross Cl Up. Ho.

An Act for dividing St. Paul's Parish in Queen Anne's and Talbot
Counties, and for erecting a new Parish thereout, by the Name
of St. John's Parish.

No. 13

Whereas clivers Inhabitants of St Paul's Parish in Queen Anne's
and Talbot Counties, by their humble Petition to this General Assem-
bly, representing, that the said Parish is very large and populous,
and the annual Income thereof, amounting to near Eighty thousand
Pounds of Tobacco, they humbly conceive sufficient decently to sup-
port and maintain two Incumbents, have prayed that a Law may
pass for dividing the said Parish, and for erecting Part thereof into
a new Parish, so as not to affect the Interest of the present Incum-
bent, the Reverend Mr. James Cox, but that he continue to officiate
in both the said Parishes, and to receive the Incomes and Profits
thereof until his Death or Removal from St. Paul's Parish aforesaid.
Be it therefore Enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Pro-
prietary, by and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's
Governor, and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the
Authority of the same, That from and after the End of this present
Session, all that Part of St. Paul's Parish in Queen Anne's and Tal-
bot County, lying within the Lines and Bounds herein after men-
tioned and expressed, That is to say, Beginning at the Head of the
three Bridges Branch in Queen Anne's County, and running from
thence with a strait Line to a small Bridge in the Road from Old

[Preamble.]

Wye Mill to Tuckahoe Bridge, near the Northeast Corner of Ferdi-
nando Callaghan's Plantation, thence with the said Road to Tucka-
hoe Bridge, thence down the East Side of Tuckahoe Creek binding
therewith to Choptank River, and then binding therewith to the
Division Line between St. Paul's and St. Luke's Parishes, and then
with the several Lines and Bounds of St. Paul's Parish aforesaid to
the Head of the. three Bridges Branch aforesaid, shall be taken from
St. Paul's Parish aforesaid and erected into a new Parish, by the

[Bounds as-
certained.]