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

Liber B. L. C.
[Officers
how to be
paid.]

p. 451

George's Parish aforesaid, shall, out of the said Sum of Eight hun-
dred Pounds, or out of any other Money or Tobacco now belonging,
or which hereafter shall belong, to the said Vestry and Church-
Wardens, pay to the said Surveyor, Sheriff and Jury, their respec-
tive Fees or Allowances, as also pay the owner or Owners of the
said three Acres of Land, the Value that shall be put upon the same,
by the Jury aforesaid, as also the Clerk of the County for recording
the Return aforesaid.

[Directions
to the
Register.]

And be it likewise enacted, That the Register of the said Parish
or Vestry shall, and he is hereby obliged and directed, to enter in the
Register Books of the Parish aforesaid, the Courses of the three
Acres aforesaid, or Certificate made out by the Surveyor aforesaid.
And be it likewise Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the
said Survey, Valuation, Return and Recording in the County Court
as aforesaid, and Payment for the same, as herein before directed
by this Act, shall vest an absolute Estate in the said Vestrymen and
Church- Wardens of King George's Parish aforesaid, and their Suc-
cessors for ever, in the said three Acres of Land for the Use of the
same Parish.

[In Case of
Fire, &c.]

And be it likewise Enacted, That in case of Fire or Accident to
the County Records aforesaid, whereby the Courses or Return may
be lost or destroyed, that then and in such Case, a Copy of the
Courses of the said three Acres from the Register Book of the said
Parish, shall be held and deemed to be the Courses of the same three
Acres of Land.

[Obligation
on the
Vestrymen
&c.]

And be it likewise Enacted, That the said Vestrymen and Church-
Wardens, or the major Part of them, with the Sheriff and Surveyor
aforesaid, shall and they are hereby obliged and directed, to meet
at the Place and Time which shall be by the Magistrates aforesaid,
or the major Part of them, appointed to execute the several Matters
by this Act directed.

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 & Assented to by
the Upper House of As-
sembly
Signed p Order
J. Ross Cl. Up. Ho.

No. 17

An Act continuing an Act entituled, An Act for raising a Duty of
three-half-pence Sterling per Hogshead on all Tobacco exported
out of this Province, for the Use of the Governor.

[Continua-
tion of an
Act.]

Be it enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary, 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 one Act of Assembly made at a Session of Assembly