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

Liber R. G.
1770

Broad Creek are very remote from any Place of Public Worship
and have prayed that an Act may pass to enable the Justices of
Somerset and Worcester Counties to Levy on the Taxable In-
habitants of Stepney Parish aforesaid in Somerset and Worcester
Counties a Quantity of Eighty Thousand Pounds of Tobacco at
two Equal Assessments for the Purpose of Purchasing a Lott of
Ground at or near Broad Creek Bridge in the said Parish and Erect-
ing and Building thereon a Chapel of Ease to the said Parish.

[The Ves-
trymen and
church-
wardens to
Purchase
Two Acres
of Land in
Worcester
County, and
to agree
with a Per-
son or Per-
sons to build
a Chapel of
Ease
thereon.]

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 Author-
ity of the same That the Vestrymen and Church Wardens of Stepney
Parish aforesaid which Lies in Somerset and Worcester Counties
aforesaid for the time being or the Major part of them be and are
hereby authorized impowered and required to purchase in Fee in the
name of the Vestrymen and Church Wardens of the said Parish for
the time being Two Acres of Land lying in Worcester County in
the Parish aforesaid on the north side of Broad Creek and at or
near Broad Creek Bridge and to treat and agree with Such Person
or Persons as they or the Major Part of them shall think proper
to employ to build a Chapel of Ease thereon for the use of the In-
habitants of the said Parish which said Land when so Purchased
and the said Chapel when so Built shall be and is hereby Declared
to be constituted and Deemed the Land and Chapel of Ease of the
said Parish and the said Chapel forever hereafter shall be supported
and repaired at the Charge of the said Parish.

The Jus-
tices of
Somerset
and Worces-
ter Counties
to Assess,
on the tax-
able In-
habitants of
Stepney Par-
ish 80,00 lb.
of Tobacco,
in 1770 and
1771;]
p. 57

And be it further Enacted by the Authority [advice] and Consent
aforesaid that for the Building of the said Chapel of Ease on the
North side of Broad Creek the Justices of Somerset and Worcester
Counties for the time being shall and they are hereby Authorised
and impowered to Assess and Levy on the Taxable Inhabitants of
the said Parish the Quantity of Eighty thousand Pounds of Tobacco
by two Equal Assessments in the Years of our Lord Seventeen hun-
dred and Seventy and Seventeen hundred and seventy one together
with the Sheriffs Salary of five Per Cent for collecting the same
which said Assessments shall respectively be made by the Justices
aforesaid in Proportion to the Taxable Inhabitants of the said Parish
of Stepney residing in their Several and Respective Counties and

[to be paid
to the
Vestry and
Church-
wardens;]
[and may be
discharged
as Public or
County
Levies
now are.]

shall be Collected by the Sheriffs of Somerset and Worcester Counties
from the Several Taxable Persons of the said Parish who shall reside
within their Counties the said Quantitys of Tobacco when so as
aforesaid collected shall be paid by such Sheriffs Respectively to such
Vestry and Church Wardens aforesaid who are hereby Authorised
to receive and apply the same to the uses aforesaid —
Provided always and be it Further Enacted That it shall and may
be Lawfull for the Several and Respective Inhabitants of the Parish