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Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly, 1755-1756
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524 Assembly Proceedings, Feb. 2^-May 22, 1756.

Liber H. S.
No.1
[All former
Proceedings,
made Good
and valid.]

that in all such Cases the Judgments and other Decisions, Business,
Prosecutions, Process, and other Proceedings, done and transacted
by such Courts respectively, shall be, and they are hereby declared
to stand and be, to all Intents, Constructions, and Purposes, as good,
valid, and effectual, as if no such Discontinuance had happened; such
Discontinuance, or any Law, Usage, or Custom, to the contrary
thereof, in any wise, notwithstanding.


1st April 1756 On behalf of the Right 1st April 1756
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
MMacnemara Cl lo ho. JRoss Cl. Up. Ho.

| The Create Seal |
| in wax append. |

No. 7

p. 257

A Supplementary Act to the Act, entituled, An Act impowering the
Justices of Worcester County, to levy on the taxable Inhabitants
of Allhallows Parish, a Sum of Tobacco, and for other Purposes
therein mentioned.

[Preamble.]

Whereas the Rector, Vestrymen, Church-Wardens, and other Par-
ishioners of Allhallows Parish, in Worcester County, have, by their
Petition, set forth, That the Sum of Eighty thousand Pounds of
Tobacco, assessed and levied in Virtue of the said recited Act, is not
sufficient for building, finishing, and compleating a Church already
begun, situate in Snow-Hill-Town, in the Parish and County afore-
said, according to the Directions of the said Act; and therefore
prayed that a further Sum of Forty-five thousand Pounds of Tobacco
might be levied, by five equal Assessments, on the taxable Inhabi-
tants of the said Parish, and applied towards the Building, Finishing,
and Compleating the said Parish Church, in the Town of Snow-Hill
aforesaid, in such Manner and Form, as to the Vestrymen and
Church- Wardens, for the Time being, or the major Part of them,
should seem just and reasonable :

Be it therefore Enacted, by the Right Honourable the Lord

[Justices of
Worcester
County to
levy 45,000
lbs. of
Tobacco, by
five equal
Assess-
ments.]

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 for the
Justices of Worcester County, for the Time being, and they are
hereby directed and required, at laying their County Levy in Novem-
ber Court, in each of the five Years following, viz. in the Year
Seventeen hundred and fifty-six, and to continue the same until the
Year Seventeen hundred and sixty, inclusive, and until the same five
Years are fully compleat and ended, for the assessing and levying
the Tobacco aforesaid, for the Uses and Purposes aforesaid, on the
taxable Inhabitants of the said Parish, by five equal Assessments,
so as aforesaid expressed, the Sum of Nine thousand Pounds of



 
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