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

Liber R. G.
1770

Church should certainly have seats below and the Subscribers and
Contributors to the New should also have a Preference to those
owning Lotts that would not contribute

[Proprie-
tors and
Contributors
to have
Pews be-
low, in
Preference
to Owners,
of Lots, &c.]
[Proprie-
tors of the
old Church,
who refuse
to subscribe
to the new
Chapel.]

Be it therefore Enacted that the said Proprietors and Contributors
shall have their Pews or Seats below in Preference to the owners of
Lotts Dwellers in Town that would not contribute and such Owners
of Lotts shall have seats in the Gallery if not enough for them below
anything in the former Act to the contrary notwithstanding
And Whereas it was Supposed that all the Proprietors of the old
Church would as their seats would be worth much more in the new
Chapel [than] they were in the Old Church contributed by Subscrip-
tion to the said Chapel and therefore ought not to pay for the bare
erection of their new Pews and for which Reason no Provision was
made that they should pay And it being represented that some of the
said Proprietors refuse to Subscribe and contribute anything whilst
others have Subscribed very Largely.

[Five
Pounds or
upwards,
shall pay to
the Trustees
the Cost of
erecting
their Pews,
or on Re-
fusal the said
Pews to be
sold, &c.]

Be it enacted that those Proprietors who have not subscribed Five
Pounds or upwards to the said Chapel shall and are hereby Obliged
to pay to the trustees the cost of erecting their new Pews before the
said Pews shall be registered to them or any right therein Confirmed
to them and if any refuse to pay as aforesaid within one Month
after Notice it shall and may be Lawful for the said Trustees to sell
the said Pew or Pews so as aforesaid refused to be paid for at Public
sale retaining out of the Money arising therefrom the cost of erecting
said Pew and Paying the Residue to such Proprietors

[Overplus
Pews shall
be sold to
Freeholders
of the Par-
ish only.]
p. 67

And Whereas it is Directed by the before recited Act that the
Residue of the Pews or seats that shall be over supplying the Pro-
prietors of the' Old Church the Subscribers to the New and the
Owners of Lotts Dwellers in the Town shall be sold at Public sale
to the Freeholders of the said Parish only
Be it enacted that the said Pews shall be set up at Eight Pounds
Current Money each

By the Lower House of
Assembly 25.^th Octo.^r
1770 Read and Assented
to
Signed by Order
Jn^o Duckett Cl Lo. Ho.

On behalf of the right
Honourable the Lord
Proprietary of this Prov-
ince I will this be a Law
Rob.^t Eden

By the Upper house of
Assembly Octo.^r 26.^th
1770 Read and Assented
to
Signed by Order
U Scott Cl. Up. Ho.

the great Seal in
wax appendant

N.^o 16

An Act for the Building a Parish Church in Queen Ann Parish in
Prince Georges County

[Preamble.]

Whereas it has been requested to this General Assembly that the
Parish Church in the Said Parish is so much decayed as makes it
absolutely necessary that a new one should Be Built it is therefore
thought fit by this General Assembly that it should be Enacted.