Acts. 299

of December next, in any of the Courts in this Province, it shall
and may be lawful for the Justices of the Court in which such
Action shall be commenced, or such of them as shall be present,
upon the Affidavit of the Plaintiff, or other Evidence of his Cause
of Action, given to the Satisfaction of such Court, to award special
Bail against any Defendant or Defendants in such Action, and for
Default of such Bail, to commit such Defendant or Defendants to
the Custody of the Sheriff or Coroner, as the Case may require, until
he, she or they, shall put in such Bail as is usual in other Cases; any
Law, Usage, or Custom, to the contrary notwithstanding.

Liber H. S.
No. I

9^th November 1753
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 Propry
of this Province I will
this be a Law
Hor.° Sharpe

the great seal in
Wax Appendant

9 Novem.^r 1753
Read and Assented to
by the Upper House of
Assembly
Signed p Order
J. Ross Cl Up Ho.

No. 17 An Act impowering the Justices of Prince George's County, to Levy
on the taxable Inhabitants of Saint Paul's Parish in the said
County, a Sum of Current Money, for the Uses therein men-
tioned.

Whereas, the Rector, Vestrymen, and Churchwardens, and other
Inhabitants of Saint Paul's Parish, in Prince George's County, have
by their humble Petition to this present General Assembly, set forth,
That the Railing of the Grave Yard at the Church being very much
out of Repair, and no Yard either railed or paled in at the Chapel
of Ease, and some other Repairs being necessary to be made, they

[Preamble.]

humbly pray that a Law may pass, impowering the Justices of Prince
George's County aforesaid, to Levy on the taxable Inhabitants of
Saint Paul's Parish aforesaid, the Sum of One Hundred Pounds
Currency, at two equal annual Assessments, to be applied to the
Uses aforesaid; which being thought reasonable, it is prayed that it
may be Enacted,

p. 33

And 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 the Justices of Prince George's County, for the
Time being, shall and may, and they are hereby authorized and
directed, on the Application of the Vestry and Churchwardens of
Saint Paul's Parish, in Prince George's County, or the Majority
of them, to assess and levy on the taxable Inhabitants of the said
Parish, the aforesaid Sum of One Hundred Pounds Current Money,
together with the Sheriff's Salary of Five Pounds per Centum for
Collection, at two equal annual Assessments, which said Sum of
One Hundred Pounds shall be collected by the Sheriff of the said

[100 l. to be
levied, at two
Assessments
in Pr.
George's
County for
Railing two
Grave Yards
in St. Paul's
Parish.]