Acts. 225

accruing to this Province by the Multiplicity of Useless Horses
Mares and Colts that run in the Woods

Liber H. S.
No. 1

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 an Act of Assembly of this Province entituled a
Supplementary Act to the Act entituled an Act Ascertaining the
Heighth of Fences to prevent the evil Occasioned by the Multitude
of Horses and restraining Horse Rangers within this Province and
to redress the great evil Accruing to this Province by the Multiplicity
of useless Horses and Colts, that run in the Woods made at a
Session of Assembly begun and held at the City of Annapolis the
Eighth day of May Seventeen hundred and Fifty be and is hereby
continued and shall remain and be in full fforce for and during the
Term of Three years next ensuing and to the end of the next Session
of Assembly which shall happen after the end of the said Three years

[The Act of
1750, Ch.
125, contin-
ued 3 Years,
&c]

14.^th Nov.r 1766
Read and Assented to
by the Lower house of
Assembly
Signed p Order
MMacnemara Clloho

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

14.^th Nov.^r 1766
read and Assented to
by the Upper house of
Assembly
Signed by Order
UScott Cl. Up. Ho.

the Great Seal
in Wax Append^t

No. 7 An Act for the Building a Vestry House at Chester Church in Kent
County and Inclosing the Church Yard and for other purposes

Whereas the Vestry and Church Wardens of Chester Parish in
Kent County and other Inhabitants of the said County have by their
Petition to this General Assembly set forth that the said Vestry find
there will be an Overplus of the one hundred and Thirty Thousand
pounds of Tobacco allowed to build a Church for the said Parish
more than will be sufficient to build the said Church and also that
it is Necessary to Inclose the Yard of the said Church and to build
a sufficient and Convenient Vestry house at the said Parish Church

[Preamble]

for the benefit and use of the Parishioners and that there will be
when Added to the said Overplus more than a Sufficient sum of
Tobacco of the savings of the said Chester Parish out of the Thirty
Per Poll raised on the Parishioners for the present year by reason
of the Vacancy of an Incumbent to inclose the said Church Yard in
a proper manner and to build and finish a good and sufficient Vestry
house as aforesaid and therefore prayed that an Act of Assembly
might pass to appropriate the said Overplus and about Sixteen
Thousand pounds of Tobacco of the savings aforesaid to the said
uses and Purposes

p. 617