Acts. 329

Public Tax with an Intention to make an Addition to the House of
Worship in Chester Town for a Chapel of Ease and therewith have
erected a very Good and Commodious new Building for a Chapel
instead thereof by which the Parish will be kept Clear of any Con-
siderable Repairs for a Long time but upon making up the Accounts
it is found there will still want about the sum of Four hundred &
fifty Pounds Current money to compleatly finish the said Chapel and
to inclose the same and also the Burying Ground belonging thereto
in a decent manner and have prayed the same may be Assessed
Levied and raised by equal Tax on the Inhabitants of the said
Parish

Liber R. G.
1770

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 it shall and may be Lawful for the
Justices of Kent County Court to Assess and Levy on the Taxable
inhabitants of the said Chester Parish the sum of One hundred and
Eighty Pounds Current Money and five per Cent Commission for
the sheriffs Collection and at the next November Court following
the further sum of One hundred and Eighty Pounds Current Money
and five Per Cent Commission as aforesaid to and for the use and
Purpose aforesaid

[The Jus-
tices of Kent
County to
levy on the
taxable In-
habitants of
Chester
Parish, £360
Current
Money, by
Two equal
Assess-
ments, &c.]

And be it further Enacted that the Sheriff of the County afore-
said for the time being shall and is hereby impowered and required
to collect and Receive the said Assessments so as aforesaid made by
the said Court in the same manner and in the same time as he
collects other Public and Parish Dues and that he and his Sureties
shall be Answerable for the same and he or his Executors or Ad-
ministrators shall pay the said Sums so assessed and Levied to the
Trustees appointed by Law to have the said Chapel Built or to their
Order or Orders at any time after he has collected or by Law ought
to have collected the same And the said Trustees are hereby Author-
ized and impowered to receive the sums of Money so as aforesaid to
be raised and Collected by the Sheriff under the Assessments as afore-
said or his Executors or Administrators aforesaid or to draw Orders
for the same and therewith Pay for Finishing & Compleating the
said Chapel and to buy Materials and contract with proper Work-
men to inclose the said Chapel and Burying Ground in a decent
manner.

[To be col-
lected by the
Sheriff, as
other Pub-
lick and
Parish Dues,
and by him
paid to Trus-
tees, ap-
pointed by
Law to have
the Chapel
built, or their
Order, &c.]
p. 66 [sic]

And Whereas it was by the Supplementary Act directed that the
Proprietors of the Old Church should have as good and Commodious
Pews or seats in the new Chapel as they had in the Old Church and
that if there was not enough below for them and the Subscribers and
Persons owning Lotts in the said Town and Dwelling therein that
the Number should be made up out of the Gallery and then Balloted
for. It is now thought Reasonable that the Proprietors of the old

[A former
Act referred
to.]