202 Assembly Proceedings, June 23-July 8, 1755.

No. 6
Liber H. S.
No. 1
p. 188

An Act continuing an Act entituled, An Act for the more effectual
destroying Squirrels and Crows in the Counties of Kent, Queen-
Anne's, and Talbot, and for destroying red Foxes in the said
Counties.

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 an Act of Assembly of this Province entituled, An
Act for the more effectual destroying Squirrels and Crows in the
Counties of Kent, Queen-Anne's, and Talbot, and for destroying red

[An Act
continued.]

Foxes in the said Counties, made at a Session of Assembly, begun
and held at the City of Annapolis, the Twenty-fourth Day of May,
Anno Domini One Thousand Seven Hundred and Forty Nine, be,
and is hereby continued, and shall remain and be in full Force, for
and during the Term of Three Years, and unto the End of the next
Session of Assembly, which shall happen after the Expiration of the
said Three Years.

5th July 1755 On behalf of the Right 5^th July 1755
Read and assented to Honourable the Lord Read and assented to
by the Lower house of Proprietary of this Prov- by the upper house of
Assembly. ince I will this be a Law Assembly.
Signed p Order Hor.^o Sharpe Signed p Order
M Macnemara Cl lo ho J Ross Cl Up Ho

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No. 7

An Act for purchasing Two Acres of Land in the upper Part of
Worcester Parish, in Worcester County, and building a Chapel of
Ease thereon.

[Preamble.]

Whereas, by Petition from many of the Inhabitants of the upper
Part of Worcester Parish, in Worcester County, setting forth, that
they are intirely destitute of any Place of public Worship, and that
there is now, or shortly will be, a Quantity of Tobacco, in the Hands
of the Vestry of the said Parish, sufficient for purchasing two Acres
of Land, and building thereon a convenient Chapel of Ease: It is
humbly prayed that it may be enacted,

[Vestry of
Worcester
Parish, to
purchase 2
Acres
whereon to
build a
chapel.]

And be it therefore 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 Vestry of Worcester Parish, in
Worcester County, shall, and they are hereby required, as soon as
conveniently may be, to purchase two Acres of Land, on the Easter-
most Side of a Branch, in the said County, called Peper's Branch,
near where the Main-Road crosses the said Branch, and to contract
for the Building and compleatly Finishing a Chapel of Ease thereon.