Acts. 331

And Be it Enacted by the right Honourable the Lord Proprietary
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 the said County of Prince Georges
shall and may and they are hereby required to Levy upon the Tax-
able Inhabitants of the said Parish by three Equal Assessments a
Quantity not exceeding One hundred and fifty thousand Pounds of
Tobacco together with the Sheriffs Salary of five Pounds of Tobacco
per Centum for collecting the same by three equal Assessments that
is to say one third part thereof at their next November Court one
third part thereof at their November Court which shall be in the
Year of our Lord One thousand Seven hundred and Seventy one
and the remaining One third part thereof at their November Court
which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand Seven hun-
dred & Seventy two which said Quantity of One hundred and fifty
thousand Pounds of Tobacco shall and may be collected by the
Sheriff of the said County together with his Commission as afore-
said and shall by the said Sheriff be accounted for and paid to the

Liber R. G.
1770
[The Jus-
tices of
Prince
George's
County to
levy, on the
taxable In-
habitants of
Queen Anne
Parish, a
Quantity of
Tobacco, not
exceeding
150,000 lb.
by Three
equal As-
sessments,]

Vestry and Church Wardens of the said Parish or the Major Part
of them for the time being who are hereby Authorized and required
to apply the same towards Building Finishing and Compleating the
said Church in the Parish aforesaid in or near the place where the
Old Church now stands —

[to be paid
by the
Sheriff to
the Vestry
and Church-
wardens;]

Provided always and be it Enacted that it shall and may be Lawful
for the Several and respective Inhabitants of the said Parish to pay
and Discharge the said Quantity of Tobacco as aforesaid to be
Assessed and Levied in money in the same manner and at the same
rate that they are now enabled to pay and discharge the Public and
County Levy

[but may be
discharged
by the In-
habitants in
Money.]

By the Lower house of
Assembly October 29.^th
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 p. 68
Assembly Oct.^r 29.^th 1770
Read and Assented to
Signed by Order
U Scott Cl. Up ho

the great seal in
wax appendant

N.^o 17 An Act to remedy a defect in the Acknowledgment of a Conveyance
from Josiah Conant to William Thornton —

Whereas it appears to this General Assembly upon an Examina-
tion into the truth of the Several facts set forth in the Petition of
Colonel Abraham Barnes of Saint Marys County that on or about
the Tenth Day of January in the Year of our Lord One thousand
six hundred and forty two a certain Thomas Weston had granted
unto him two Parcels of Lands situate Lying and being on the east
Side of Saint George's Creek in Saint Marys County the one con-
taining twelve hundred Acres more or less the other fifty Acres more

[A Private
Act.]