164 Assembly Proceedings, November if-December 20, 1769.

Liber R. G.
1769

been Confined in Prison for Five Years or any Longer Time that
the said Person so Confined shall be Discharged upon the same
Terms and in the same Manner that Persons having Families are by
this Act directed to be Discharged —

By the Lower House of
Assembly Dec.^r 19.^th 1769.
Read and assented to
Signed by order.
T Wright Cl. lo: ho:

On behalf of the Right
Honourable the Lord Pro-
prietary of this Province,
I Will This be a Law
Rob.^t Eden

By the Upper House of
Assembly Dec.^r 19.^th 1769.
Read & Assented to.
Signed by order.
U Scott Cl. Up: Ho:

Great Seal in
Wax Appendant

No. 21

An Act for the building of a Parish Church in Christ Church Parish
in Calvert County

[Preamble.]

Whereas the Rector Vestrymen Church Wardens and sundry of
the Inhabitants of Christ Church Parish in Calvert County have b}'
their Humble Petition to this general Assembly set forth That the
Parish Church in the County aforesaid is now become so much
Decayed that they cannot with any degree of safety repair thereto
and attend upon Divine Service And being desirous not only to
remove this Inconvenience but to promote and Advance Religion and
render the attendance on Publick Worship more safe and Agreeable
by erecting on the Ground where the Church now stands a good
sufficient and commodious Building for such necessary pious and
Laudable Purposes have Humbly prayed that an Act may pass that
a Quantity not exceeding one Hundred and sixty Thousand pounds
of Tobacco may be Levied upon the Taxable Inhabitants of the
said Parish by three equal Assessments —

[The Ves-
trymen and
Church-
Wardens
of Christ-
Church
Parish em-
ployed to
agree for
the building
a new
church.]

And Whereas it has been represented to this general Assembly
that there is now remaining in the Hands of the Vestrymen of the
said Parish about the Sum of one Hundred Pounds which Sum
together with the Materials of the old Church they Likewise pray
may be applied towards the building and finishing of the said Church.
Be it Therefore Enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Pro-
prietary by and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordships Gov-
ernor and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly and the
Authority of the same That the Vestrymen and Church Wardens
of the said Parish for the Time being or the Major part of Them
be and are hereby authorized and impowered to Treat and agree
with such person or persons as they shall think proper to undertake
erect and build and in a Workman like manner compleat and Finish
a Parish Church on the Ground where the old Church now stands —

p. 43

And be it further Enacted That any Three Justices of Calvert
County aforesaid and the Clerk of the said County Court may and
are hereby impowered to meet Together at Prince Frederick Town
in the County aforesaid at any Time between the Twentieth day of