Acts. 525

Part of them, are hereby impowered and directed to lay out in erect-
ing and building the said Prison.

Liber H. S.

No. 1

30.^th May 1754
Read and Assented to
by the Lower House of
Assembly
Signed p Order

M Macncmara Cl lo ho.

On behalf of the Right
Honourable the Lord
Proprietary of this Prov-
ince I will this be a Law
Hor.° Sharpe

The great seal in
Wax Atroendant

30^th May 1754
Read and Assented to
by the Upper House of
Assembly
Signed p Order
J Ross Cl Up Ho

No. 4 An Act to enable the Justices of St. Mary's County, to levy a Quan-
tity of Tobacco on the taxable Inhabitants of King and Queen
Parish, in said County, for the Purposes therein mentioned.

p. i47

Whereas the Rector, Vestrymen, Churchwardens, and other the
principal Inhabitants of King and Queen Parish, in Saint Mary's
County, have, by their humble Petition to this General Assembly, set
forth, That the Parish Church at Chaptico is at present greatly out
of Repair, and if not immediately repaired, must hereafter occasion
to the Inhabitants of the said Parish, a far greater Expence; they
therefore humbly pray, that an Act may pass for the levying Twenty
Two Thousand Pounds of Tobacco, clear of the Sheriff's Salary to
be assessed on the taxable Inhabitants of the said Parish, at the lay-
ing the next County Levy, for the County aforesaid: All which being
by this General Assembly thought reasonable ;

[Preamble.]

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 Saint
Mary's County Court for the Time being, and they are hereby author-
ized and required, at the laying their County Levy, in November
Court next, to assess and levy on the taxable Inhabitants of King and
Queen Parish, in the said County, a Quantity of Tobacco, not exceed-
ing Twenty Two Thousand Pounds of Tobacco, clear of the Sheriff's
Salary of Five per Centum for collecting the same; which said Sum
of Twenty Two Thousand Pounds of Tobacco, the said Sheriff is
hereby authorized and required to collect and receive accordingly, in
Tobacco only, and when so collected and received, to pay the same to
the Order of the Vestrymen and Churchwardens of the said King and
Queen Parish, for the Time being, or the major Part of them, to be
by them, or the major Part of them, applied towards the Repairing
the s.^d Chaptico Church.

[22 ooo lbs.
of Tobacco
to be levied
in King and
Queen Par-
ish.]

May 30 1754
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
Hor.° Sharpe

The great seal in
Wax Appendant

30^th May 1754
Read and Assented to
by the Upper House of
Assembly
Signed p Order
J. Ross Cl Up Ho