Acts. 461

An Act impowering the Justices of Charles County Court to assess
and levy a Quantity of Tobacco, and for other Purposes therein
mentioned.

Liber B. L. C.
No. 8

Whereas the Rector, Vestrymen, Churchwardens, and sundry
Parishioners of William and Mary Parish in Charles County, have
by their humble Petition to this present General Assembly set forth,
that there is a Stock of Neat Cattle and Swine belonging to the Glebe
of the said Parish, which is refused by the Reverend Mr. Samuel
Claget, the present Incumbent, to be accepted of, upon the Terms
usually practised there; he being content with the Profits of his
Benefice, without such Stock: Therefore it is humbly prayed, that
the same Stock may be sold for the Benefit of the said Parish. And
whereas by the same Petition it is likewise set forth, that the Parish
Church in the said County is not only too small, but also wants re-
pairing; and therefore it is humbly prayed, that a Quantity not
exceeding twenty-seven thousand Pounds of Tobacco, may be raised
and levied on the taxable Inhabitants of the said Parish, by two
annual and equal Assessments, to be applied as well towards the
building, finishing, and compleating an Addition to be by them ma.dc
to the said Parish Church, as towards the defraying the necessary
Expences in repairing the same.

[Preamble.]

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
Authority of the same, That the Justices of Charles County Court,
for the Time being, shall be, and they are hereby authorized, im-
powered and required, on Application of the said Rector, Vestrymen
and Churchwardens, at their laying their County Levy in November
Court, in the Years Seventeen hundred and fifty, and Seventeen
hundred and fifty-one, to assess and levy on the taxable Inhabitants
of the said Parish, in the County aforesaid, a Quantity of Tobacco
not exceeding twenty-seven thousand Pounds of Tobacco, by two
even and equal Assessments, together with the Sheriff's Salary of
five per Cent for Collection. And that the Rector, Vestrymen and
Churchwardens of the said Parish, for the Time being, or the major
Part of them, are hereby authorized, directed and required to agree
and contract with a Workman, or Workmen, to undertake, build,
finish and compleat the Addition to the said Parish Church, as also
to make the necessary Repairs to the same as it now stands, in a
Workman-like Manner.

p. 492
[27000 lb.
of Tobacco
to be levied
on the In-
habitants of
William and
Mary
Parish.]

And be it further Enacted by the Authority, Advice, and Consent
aforesaid, That the said Rector, Vestrymen and Churchwardens, or
the major Part of them, be, and they are hereby authorized and
impowered, from time to time, as Occasion shall require, for the
Purposes aforesaid, to draw upon the Sheriff of Charles County, in

[Rector,
Vestrymen,
&c. to draw
on the
Sheriff of .
Charles
County.]