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

Liber H. S.
No. 1
[Vestry to
contract for
building a
Church in
Dorchester.]

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 the Vestry of the Parish of St. Mary's
White-Chapel in Dorcester County, shall, and they are hereby
obliged and required, as soon as conveniently may be, to contract and
agree for the Building and compleatly Finishing, a new Church, on
or near the Place where the Parish-Church of the said Parish now
stands.
And be it further Enacted, That the Justices of Dorchester County

[Justices to
Levy 350 1.
at two As-
sessments.]

Court, shall, and they are hereby required to, levy on the taxable
Inhabitants of the said Parish, by two even and equal Assessments,
in the two next ensuing Years, the aforesaid Sum of Three Hun-
dred and Fifty Pounds Current Money, together with a Sallary to
the Sheriff of the said County, for collecting the same, of Five per
Cent; and the said Sheriff is hereby directed and impowered to col-
lect, account for, and pay the same to the said Vestry, in the same
Manner as other Money-Levies are collected, accounted for and paid,
to be applied, by the said Vestry, to the Building and compleatly
Finishing the said new Church, and to no other Purpose whatever.

5^th 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. 9

[Preamble.]

An Act to prevent the Exportation or carrying out of this Province,
Ammunition, Warlike Stores, or Provisions of any Kind, towards
supplying the French, or their Allies.

Whereas it is represented to this General Assembly, that divers
Persons do supply the French, and their Allies, with Provisions, by
Land and Water; and also, that sundry Traders to the Northward,
have carried Ammunition, Warlike Stores, and Provisions to Saint

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Peters, in or near the Island of Newfoundland, from whence the
French were supplied with the same, to Louisburg, at Cape-Breton,
by which Means they are the better enabled to carry into Execution
their unjust Schemes upon his Majesty's Dominions, and against his
Subjects on this Part of the Continent: In Order therefore, to
prevent as much as in us lies for the Future such Evil, it is prayed
that it may be enacted,