Acts. 499

of the said Land Humbly prayed that An Act may pass to enable
them the said Rector Vestrymen and Churchwardens to sell the
said Land at any sum not less than three hundred Pounds Sterling
and to Apply the Produce Money arising by such Sale toward the
Purchase of another Piece of Land in a more Centrical part of the
Parish to be made a Glebe for the use of the Incumbent of the
said Parish and his Successors which being by the General Assembly
thought reasonable it is prayed that it may be enacted

Liber H. S.
No. 1

And be it enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary
by and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordships Governor and
the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly and the Authority of the
same That the Vestrymen and Church Wardens of the Parish of
St Margarets Westminster in Ann Arundel County for the time
being or the Major Part of them be and are hereby Authorized and
impowered to sell and dispose of and convey in Fee Simple to the
Person that shall bid the highest Price and not under three hundred
Pounds sterling for the aforesaid Tract or Parcel of Land within
twelve Months from the end of this Present Session of Assembly
at Publick Vendue giving two Months Notice of said Sale in the
Maryland Gazette and the Produce Money arising by such Sale to
Apply towards the Purchase of Another Piece of Land lying in
some more Centrical part of the said Parish and that such other
Land when so Purchased shall be made over to the Vestrymen and
Church Wardens aforesaid or the Major Part of them in Trust
and for the use and Benefit of the Minister or Incumbent of said
Parish for the time being and to his Successors Ministers or In-
cumbents of the said Parish forever

[Some Glebe
Land to be
sold, and
some other
purchased in
it's stead,
more
Centrical]

Provided that in Case the said Vestrymen and Church Wardens
shall not be able in six Months after the Sale aforesaid to Purchase
some other Tract of Land now Centrical as herein before directed
then the said Vestrymen and Church Wardens shall and are hereby
impowered and Directed to place the Money arising from the said
Sale as aforesaid out to Interest upon Good and Sufficient Se-
curity which Interest shall be Paid Yearly to the Rector or In-
cumbent of the said Parish for the Time being untill the Pur-
chase as aforesaid can be made which it is Nevertheless hereby
declared to be the duty of the said Vestrymen and Church Wardens
or the Major Part of them to make as soon as they Possibly can to
the Advantage and Convenience hereby intended Any thing in this
Act to the Contrary Notwithstanding

[Or, the
purchase
money to
be put to
interest]

Novem.^r 19. ^th 1763
Read and Assented to
by the Lower House of
Assembly
Signed p Order
MMacnemara Clk lo Ho:

On behalf of the Right
Honourable the Lord
Proprietary of this Prov-
ince I will this be a Law
Hor.^o Sharpe

19 Novem.^r 1763
Read and Assented to
by the Upper House of
Assembly
Signed p Order
JRoss Clk Up Ho

The Great Seal
in Wax appendant