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

Liber R. G.
1770
and the Clerk
of Queen
Anne's
County to
deliver to the
Justices of
Talbot
County a
Certificate,
how much
Tobacco was
assessed by a
former Act,
under
Penalty.]

Clerk of Queen Anns County shall cause to be Delivered to the
Justices of Talbot County at their November Court for this Present
Year by the fifth Day thereof a Certificate under his hand how much
of the sums of Thirty Thousand and Eighty Thousand Pounds of
Tobacco directed to be Assessed by an Act of Assembly entituled an
Act for laying out a New and Settling and ascertaining the future
Bounds and Limits of Saint Lukes Christ Church and Saint Johns
Parishes in Queen Anns County and Saint Pauls Parish lying partly
in Queen Anns and Partly in Talbot County was Assessed in Pur-
suance of the said Act all which Services the said Clerks shall Respec-
tively Perform under the Penalty of Five hundred Pounds of To-
bacco for each Neglect to be recovered before one Majestrate and to
be applied one half to the informer and the other half towards defray-
ing the Expences of the Parish aforesaid and the said Clerks shall
be paid by the Vestrymen of the said Parish for their respective
Services the sum of twenty Pounds of Tobacco for each Year and
no more.

[One Third
Part of the
Sums di-
rected by a
former Act,
to be as-
sessed this
Present
Year, and
the remain-
ing Two
Thirds the
Two next
succeeding
Years.]

And be it further Enacted that the Justices of Queen Anns and
Talbot Counties shall at their November Courts for this Present
Year and at each of their November Courts for the two next Succeed-
ing Years Assess on the Taxable Inhabitants of the said Parish
living in the said Counties respectively one third Part of the sums
which were directed by the Act entituled a Supplementary Act to the
Act entituled an Act for laying out anew and Settling and ascer-
taining the future Bounds and Limits of Saint Lukes Christ Church
and Saint Johns Parishes in Queen Anns County and of Saint Pauls
Parish lying partly in Queen Anns and partly in Talbot County to be
Assessed on them respectively.

[Which may
be paid as
other Parish
Taxes are.]

And be it further Enacted that the aforesaid Sums of Tobacco
when Assessed as aforesaid shall be collected by the Sheriffs of the
said Counties Respectively together with their Commission of five
per Cent for Collecting and paying the same and shall be paid by the

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Inhabitants aforesaid in the same Manner that other Parish Taxes
are Collected and paid and Shall be by the said Sheriffs accounted
for and paid to the Vestrymen and Church wardens of the Parish
aforesaid for the time being by the time and in the Manner by and
in which he is Obliged to Account with and pay other Public Creditors
and the said Vestrymen and Church Wardens are hereby Authorized
and impowered to apply three fourth parts thereof towards building
and Compleating the Parish Church of the said Parish now erecting
and the other fourth part thereof towards Building and Compleating
an Addition to and Galleries in the aforesaid Chapel called Wye

[How to be
applied.]

[A former
Act re-
pealed.]

Chapel in such manner as shall seem to them most Necessary and
convenient and to no other use or purpose whatsoever
And be it further Enacted that the aforesaid Act Entituled a Sup-
plementary Act to the Act entituled an Act for laying out a new and