324 Assembly Proceedings, March 22-April 11, 1760.

Liber H. S.
No. I

men of the said Parish from meeting, to proceed to the Electing of
Vestrymen and Church-Wardens; by which Means the Parish afore-
said hath not been since fully Represented; that notwithstanding
which, the said Vestry thought it their Duty to transact the Business
of the said Parish, and have prayed that an Act may be pass to make
valid such their Proceedings, as also to impower the said Parish-
ioners to Elect, on the next Easter-Monday, Four Vestrymen and
Two Church-Wardens :

[Last Year's
Transactions
of the Vestry
of Port-
Tobacco
Parish made
valid.]

Be it therefore Enacted, by the Right Honourable the Lord Pro-
prietary of this Province, 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 Transactions
of the Vestrymen of Port-Tobacco Parish in Charles County, and
every Act and Thing by them done as Vestrymen of said Parish,
during the last Year, so far as relates to the Taxing of Batchelors
in the said Parish, and Choosing Inspectors for Port-Tobacco Ware-
house in the County aforesaid, be and are hereby made good and
valid, to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever; the aforesaid Omission
of the Election of Vestrymen and Church-Wardens notwithstanding.

[Time for
Choosing
two
Vestrymen.]

And be it further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That on
the First Tuesday of June next, Two sober and discreet Persons,
Freeholders of the said Parish, shall be chosen Vestrymen in such
Manner as by the Laws of this Province is directed, in the Room
of such Two Vestrymen, whose Time of being Vestrymen expired
on the Easter-Monday in the Petition aforesaid mentioned; which
said Persons, so chosen, shall continue to be Vestrymen until the
Easter-Monday which shall be in the Year of our Lord One Thou-
sand Seven Hundred and Sixty-two, and no longer.

[And two
others.]
p. 383

And be it further Enacted, That on the same Day and Year
aforesaid, Two other sober and discreet Persons, Freeholders of
the said Parish, shall be chosen Vestrymen, in the Room and Place
of the Two eldest Vestrymen of the said Parish; which said Vestry-
men, so chosen, shall continue to be Vestrymen until the Easter-
Monday which shall be in the Year of our Lord One Thousand
Seven Hundred and Sixty-three, and no longer.

[Two
Church-
wardens to
be chosen.]

And be it further Enacted, That Two sober and discreet Persons,
Freeholders in the said Parish, shall be chosen Church-Wardens of
the said Parish, and that the said Church- Wardens, so chosen, shall
continue and be Church-Wardens until the Easter-Monday that shall
happen in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and
Sixty-one, and no longer; which said Vestrymen and Church- Ward-
ens, so chosen by Virtue of this Act, shall be Qualified in like
Manner, and subject to the same Duties, Pains, Penalties, and For-
feitures, as Vestrymen and Church-Wardens are subject to by the