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of Worship, were carried on with great Spirit for enlarging or
rebuilding the Parish Church and two Chapels belonging to the
said Parish.
That the Vestry thought proper to apply the Money in their
during the late vacancy of the Parish, and from a Parochial Tax,
towards enlarging the Parish Church at Frederick Town; which
together with the Voluntary Subscriptions made to the Enlargement
of the said Church is sufficient to compleat the Addition con-
tracted for.
That the Chapel below Monocacy, a crazy wooden Building, hath
(upon a View by skilful Persons) been judged not worth the Repair-
ing: and the Chapel beyond the
on so narrow and Contracted a Plan, as not to [be cap] able of
holding One Third Part of the Congregation willing and desirous
to attend Divine Service there, cannot be enlarged with any Profit
or Convenience; So that it is absolutely necessary to rebuild both
Chapels upon better Plans and with more durable Matterials.
Your Petitioners therefore most humbly pray that an Act may
pass enabling the Justices of Frederick County, aforesaid, to le[vy]
on the Taxable Inhabitants of the said Parish the Sum of One
[hundrjed a[nd] Twenty Thousand Pounds of Tobacco; payable
in Money as other Public Dues; by Three equal Assessments to be
laid at the Three Successive November Courts in the Years 1761,
1762 & 1763, exclusive of the Sheriff's Salary, to be paid into the
Hands of the Vestry for the Time being, and by them applied by
equal portions together with the Moneys respectively subscribed,
toward the Rebuilding] Compleating and Finishing the two re-
spective Chap [els]
And they will ev[er] [pray]
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MSS.
Archives
of Md.
Black Book
No. 10
Letter 108
Hall of
Records
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