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

Liber B. L. C.

County Charge hath been in other Counties usually levied, so much
Money as shall be necessary to pay for the said Land so as aforesaid
to be allotted and chosen, to build a Court House and Prison for the
County aforesaid on the said Land, and other Charges incident to the
aforesaid Division.

[Proviso.]

Provided always, That the said Sums shall not exceed the Sum of
Three hundred Pounds Current Money.
And be it also Enacted, That the said Justices shall be and they are

[A Court
House and
Prison to be
built.]

[Days for
holding
Courts.]

hereby authorized and impowered to contract for the building of,
and to cause a Court House and Prison to be built in Frederick
County on the three Acres of Land aforesaid.
And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the
County Court of Frederick County shall begin and be held upon the
third Tuesday of the Months of March, June, August and Novem-
ber yearly; and that the Assizes in the said County shall begin and
be held upon the Mondays next after the Assizes in Prince George's
County; Any Law or Usage to the Contrary notwithstanding.

[Land to be
butted, &c.]

And be it likewise Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the
said three Acres shall be laid out in an exact Square, and staked and
well bounded, and that the Court House aforesaid shall be built in
the Centre of the same Square, and that the Prison or Prisons for
the same County shall be built on the South Side of the same Square,
within ten Feet of the Southermost out-line of the three Acres
aforesaid.

June 10^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

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

No. 16
p. 450

An Act to enable the Justices of Prince George's County to secure
three Acres of Land lying in King George's Parish in said County,
whereon a Brick Chapel of Ease is already built for the Use of
the Parishioners.

[Preamble.]

Whereas by an Act of Assembly of this Province made at an
Assembly, begun and held at the City of Annapolis on Tuesday the
First Day of May, in the Year of our Lord God, Seventeen hundred
and forty four, Entituled, An Act impowering the Vestrymen and
Church Wardens of King George's Parish in Prince George's
County, to purchase three Acres of Land in the said Parish, to build
a Chapel of Ease on, and to impower the Justices of Prince George's
County to levy on the taxable Inhabitants of the said Parish in the
said County, the Sum of Eight hundred Pounds Current Money,
for the Uses therein mentioned. And by Virtue of which Act the said