312 Assembly Proceedings, September 25-November 2, 1770.

Liber R. G.
1770

of Dower of and in the Lands aforesaid and the real Estate of the
said Richard Heard

By the Lower House of
Assembly October 18.^th
1770 Read and Assented
to
Signed by Order
Jn^o Duckett 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 18.^th Octo-
ber 1770 Read and As-
sented to
Signed by Order
U Scott Cl. Up. Ho.

The great seal
in wax appendant

N.^o 3
p. 51

An Act to enable the Justices of Somerset County to levy on the
Taxable inhabitants of Somerset Parish in the said County a
Quantity of Tobacco for the Purposes therein mentioned

[Preamble.]

Whereas the Rector, Vestrymen, Churchwardens and other Prin-
cipal Inhabitants of Somerset Parish in Somerset County by their
Humble Petition to this General Assembly have set forth that by
an Act of Assembly of this Province made at a Session of Assembly
begun and held at the City of Annapolis the first Day of November
Seventeen hundred and sixty Six the Justices of Somerset County
were impowered to Assess and Levy on the Taxable Inhabitants of
Somerset Parish One hundred and twenty thousand Pounds of
Tobacco for the Purpose of Building Compleating and finishing a
Chapel of Ease in the said Parish That the said Quantity of Tobacco
was Levied collected and applied as by the said Act was directed but
found insufficient for compleating the same and that there yet re-
mains to be done to render the same Commodious and fit for the
Reception of the Parishoners the Pews, Chancel and Pulpit and have
prayed that an Act may pass to enable the Justices of the said
County to Assess and Levy on the Taxable Inhabitants of the said
Parish the Quantity of Thirty thousand Pounds of Tobacco for
erecting compleating and finishing the Pews Chancel and Pulpit
aforesaid;

[30,000 lb.
of Tobacco
to be as-
sessed on the
taxable In-
habitants of
Somerset
Parish.]

Be it therefore Enacted by the right Honourable the Lord Pro-
prietary 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 Justices of Somerset County afore-
said for the time being shall and may, at their November Court to
be held in this Present Year, Assess on the Taxable inhabitants of
Somerset Parish the sum of Thirty thousand Pounds of Tobacco
together with a Commission to the Sheriff of five per Cent for
Collecting the same which said Assessment so as aforesaid to be
made shall be Levied and Collected by the Sheriff of the County
aforesaid in the same Manner as Public and County Levies are
Levied and Collected And by him be paid to the Vestrymen and
Churchwardens aforesaid for the time being who are hereby Author-