Acts. 617

An Act to enable the Justices of Charles County, to levy a Sum of
Tobacco on the taxable Inhabitants of Port-Tobacco Parish, in
the said County, for the Purposes therein mentioned.

Liber B. L. C.

Whereas the Rector, Vestrymen, Churchwardens, and other the
principal Inhabitants of Port-Tobacco Parish in Charles County, by
their humble Petition to this General Assembly, have set forth, That
the Church of the said Parish is an antient Building, very much gone
to Ruin, so that it cannot be expected to stand long, nor is it practi-
cable to repair the same: They therefore humbly pray, that an Act
may pass to enable the Justices of the said County, to levy on the
taxable Inhabitants of the said Parish, the Sum of One hundred and
forty thousand Pounds of Tobacco, clear of all Deductions and Sher-
iff's Salary for Collection, in a certain Number of Years, at equal
Assessments, in order to build a new Church in the said Parish, and
that the Vestry may be on a Certainty in what Specie they may treat
with Workmen for that Purpose; they pray it may be levied in To-

No. 12
[Preamble.]

bacco only: All which being by this present General Assembly
thought reasonable.

p. 535

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 it shall and may be lawful to and for the Justices of
Charles County Court for the Time being, and they are hereby au-
thorized and required at the laying their County Levy in November
Court, Seventeen hundred fifty-one, and so in November Court
yearly, until the Year Seventeen hundred fifty and four inclusive, to
assess and levy, by four even and equal Assessments on the taxable
Inhabitants of Port-Tobacco Parish in the said County, a Quantity
of Tobacco not exceeding One hundred and forty thousand Pounds
of Tobacco, in the whole four Assessments, clear of the Sheriff's
Salary of five per Cent for collecting the same, which said Sum of
One hundred and forty thousand Pounds of Tobacco, the said
Sheriff is hereby authorized and required to collect and receive ac-
cordingly; and when so collected and received, to pay the same to the
Order of the Vestrymen and Churchwardens of the said Port-
Tobacco Parish, for the Time being, to be by them applied to the
finishing and compleating a Parish Church, at or near the Place
where the old Church now stands, for the Use of the said Parishion-
ers, and to no other Use or Purpose whatsoever.

[140000 lb.
of Tobacco
to be levied
on the
Taxables
of Port
Tobacco
Parish.]

7 June 1751
Read and Assented to
by the Lower House of
Assembly
Signed p Order
M. Macnemara Cl. lo. ho.

On behalf of the Right
Honble the Lord Prop^ry
of this Province I will
this be a Law.
Sam: Ogle.

The Great Seal in
Wax Appendant

7 June 1751
Read and Assented to
by the Upper House of
Assembly
Signed p Order
J Ross Cl. Up. H.