Acts. 165

December and the Twentieth day of January next and at such their
Meeting the said Justices are hereby impowered authorized and
required to apportion and Assess on the Taxable Inhabitants of the
said Parish in this present year one third part of the aforesaid Sum
of one Hundred and sixty Thousand pounds of Tobacco together
with the Sheriffs Salary of five per Cent for collecting the same and
the Clerk of the said County Court shall forthwith after the said
Apportionment and Assessment deliver to the Sheriff of the said
County a Certificate thereof under his Hand and the Seal of the
said County Court —

Liber R. G.
1769
[One Third
Part of
160,000 lb.
Tobacco, to
be levied on
the Taxable
Inhabitants
of said
Parish this
present
Year,]

And be it also Enacted That the Justices of Calvert County afore-
said for the Time being shall and may at their ensuing November
Courts to be held in the Years one Thousand seven Hundred and
Seventy and one Thousand seven Hundred and Seventy one Assess
on the Taxable Inhabitants of the said Parish the remaining Two
Third parts of the aforesaid Sum of One Hundred and sixty Thou-
sand pounds of Tobacco together with the Sheriffs Salary of Five
per Cent for collecting the same which said Assessments so as afore-
said to be made shall be collected and Levied by the Sheriff of the

[and the
Remainder
in the Years
1770 & 1771,]

County aforesaid in the same manner as public and County Levies
are usually Collected and Levied and by him be paid to the Vestrymen
and Church Wardens aforesaid for the Time being who are hereby
authorized and required to receive and apply the same to the use and
Purpose aforesaid

[which may
be dis-
charged as
Public or
County
Levies.]

And be it further Enacted by the Authority Advice and Consent
aforesaid that the Vestrymen and Church Wardens of the Parish
aforesaid are hereby impowered to apply all such Sum or Sums of
Money now remaining in their Hands and the Materials of the old
Church towards defraying the Expence of building and finishing
the new Church —

[The Money
now in the
Hands of
the Vestry-
men &c. to
be applied
towards de-
fraying the
Expences.]

By the Lower House of
Assembly Dec.^r 19.^th 1769
Read & 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. 22 An Additional Supplementary Act to the Act entitled an Act to pre-
vent the abuses of concealing convicted Felons and other Offenders
imported into this Province and for the better Discovery of
Them —

Whereas Notwithstanding the Provisions already made convicted
Felons are often imported into this Province and pass as persons of
Character and many of Them are received as Witnesses to the great

14

[Preamble.]