480 Assembly Proceedings, May 8-June 2, 1750.

Liber B. L. C.

and raised to and for the Uses aforesaid, in Current Money, in the
same Manner as they are enabled to pay and discharge the Public
or County Levy.

[Continu-
ance of
this Act.]

This Act to be in Force for and during the Term of two Years,
and unto the End of the next Session of Assembly which shall hap-
pen after the Expiration of two Years.

31^st May 1750
Read and Assented to
by the Lower House of
Assembly
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

I June 1750
Read and Assented to
by the Upper House of
Assembly
Signed p Order
J Ross. Cl Up. Ho.

No. 23

An Act impowering the Rector, Vestrymen and Churchwardens, of
Queen Caroline Parish, in Anne Arundel County, for the Time
being, to purchase one Acre of Land, and thereon to build a
Chapel of Ease in the said Parish; and to impower the Justices
of the said County to levy on the taxable Inhabitants of the said
Parish the Sum of Twelve Pence Current Money, yearly, by
three annual Assessments, for the Uses therein mentioned.

[Preamble.]

Whereas, the Rector, Vestrymen, and Churchwardens of Queen
Caroline Parish, in Anne Arundel County, by their humble Petition
to this present General Assembly, have set forth, that the Bounds
and Limits of said Parish are so extensive, that many of their
Parishioners cannot, without great Fatigue and Inconvenience,
attend Divine Service at the Parish Church; and that the Inhabi-
tants of the upper Part of that Parish had applied to them, request-
ing that a Chapel might be built at the Charge of the Parish: They
the Petitioners, thinking the said Parishioners Request reasonable,
had published their Intention to comply therewith, provided the
Bulk of the People in the Parish were willing to be taxed, to sup-
port the Charge thereof: And that in Consequence of such Publi-
cation, they the Petitioners having heard of no material Objection
thereto, they thought it proper to have a Chapel of Ease built for
the said Parish, at a Place commonly known by the Name of Poplar
Spring; which Place had been viewed and pitched upon by the Peti-
tioners for that Purpose, on Part of a Tract of Land belonging to
Mr. Levin Lawrence. They therefore prayed an Act might pass, for
levying a Tax of twelve Pence Current Money per Poll, on the tax-
able Inhabitants of the Parish aforesaid, yearly, for three Years
next ensuing, to enable the Petitioners to build a Chapel of Ease
at the Place aforesaid. All which being thought reasonable, it is
prayed that it may be Enacted ;
And be it Enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprie-
tary, by and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's Gover-