300 Assembly Proceedings, Oct. 2-Nov. 17, 1753.

Liber H. S.
No. I

County, who is hereby authorized and directed to collect the same ;
and the said Money when so collected, shall be paid to the said Vestry
and Churchwardens, or the Majority of them, who are hereby
authorized and required to apply the same towards Railing in, or
Paling the Grave Yards, at the Church and Chapel aforesaid, and
repairing the same, in such Manner, as to the Vestrymen and Church-
wardens of the said Parish, for the Time being, shall seem most
just and reasonable.

9th 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.^o 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. 18

An Act to enable the Parishioners of Part of Saint Andrew's Parish,
in Saint Mary's County, to choose Vestrymen and Churchwardens,
and to enable the Visitors of the County School, in said County,
to choose Visitors.

[Preamble.]
p. 34

Whereas, neither the Act entituled, An Act for Establishment of
Religious Worship, or any other Law within this Province, doth
enable Part of a Parish, to choose Vestrymen and Churchwardens,
Be it therefore Enacted, by the Right Honourable the Lord Pro-
prietary, 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 for the

[Part of a
Parish in St.
Mary's to
meet and
choose Ves-
trymen and
Church-
wardens.]

qualified Inhabitants of that Part of Saint Andrew's Parish, in Saint
Mary's County, separated from the Parish which the Reverend
Mr. Tabbs now holds, by the Death of the Reverend Lawrence De
Butts, late Incumbent thereof, to meet on the last Tuesday in Novem-
ber, in the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty Three,
at the Court-House of the said County, and then and there to choose
Six Vestrymen, and two Churchwardens, being Freeholders within
the said Part of Saint Andrew's Parish aforesaid, which Vestrymen
and Churchwardens so chosen, and their Successors, are hereby
declared to be the Vestrymen and Churchwardens of and for the
said Parish, and they are hereby authorized and impowered to act
and do whatever appertains to the Duty of Vestrymen and Church-
wardens, by the Laws of this Province; such Vestrymen and Church-
wardens qualifying themselves to act as such, agreeable to Law.

[Visitors to
meet and fill
up their
Number.]

And be it likewise Enacted, That the present Visitors of the
County School, in Saint Mary's County, are hereby impowered and
directed, to choose and elect a sufficient Number of Visitors, to fill
up the Number of seven Visitors for the said School, after which
the present Visitors, and those so chosen, shall and may proceed to