Acts. 517

own use out of the same a Sallary of five Per Cent and the said
Tobacco so by the Sheriff Collected and Payd the said Vestry shall
and they are hereby required to apply towards the Support of an
Organist in the Parish aforesaid

Liber H. S.

No. 1

Provided always and be it enacted That nothing in this or the
aforesaid recited Act Contained shall be Construed to take away
from the Inhabitants of the said Parish the Liberty of Paying the
said Assessment in Money during the Continuance of this Act in the
same Manner as Publick and County Levies may be Paid and dis-
charged

[Payable in
Money]
p. 526

Provided also and be it further enacted That if the said Parish
shall at any time be without an Organist all such sum or Sums of
Tobacco as shall at such time be levyed on the Taxable Inhabitants
thereof or any sum or Sums of Tobacco or Money which shall be
in the Hands of the Vestry unapplied shall be by the said Vestry
Applied laid out and expended for the use of the said Parish to such
Purposes and in such Manner as the Majority of the Vestry and
Church Wardens shall order and Direct

[How to be
applied
when no
Organist]

22.^d Novem.^r 1763
Read and Assented to
by the Lower House of
Assembly
Signed p.^r 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

22.^d Novem.^r 1763
Read and Assented to
by the Upper House of
Assembly
Signed p.^r Order
JRoss Clk Uu Ho:

The Great Seal

in Wax appendant

No. 31

[No. XXXII]

An Act for erecting a Publick School in Frederick County

Whereas it is reasonable that Education should be extended equally
to the several Parts of the Province and that there should be a Publick
School erected in ffrederick County as Well as the other Counties

[Passed
26^th of
November]
[Preamble]

Be it therefore enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Pro-
prietary By and with Advice and Consent of his Lordships Governor
and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly and the Authority
of the same that in Order to the erecting and Building a House
and other Conveniencies for a County School there shall be one Acre
of Land Purchased in Frederick Town in ffrederick County by the

[A Public
School to be
erected in
Frederick-
Town.]

Persons hereafter named who shall be Visitors of the said School
Viz.^t Coll Thomas Cresap M.^r Thomas Beattys M.^r Nathan Ma-
gruder Captain Joseph Chapline M.^r John Darnall Colonel Samuel
Beall and the Reverend M.^r Thomas Bacon which said Persons so
nominated Visitors for ffrederick County School shall Qualify in the
same Manner and be Subject to the same Penalties and be invested
with the same Right Privileges Powers and Authorities as the

[Visitors,]

Visitors of the other County Schools within this Province and shall
have Succession in like Manner

[to have
Succession]