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N.o 18 An Act to devide Saint Johns Parish in Baltimore County
Whereas the Rector Vestrymen and Church Wardens and many
other Inhabitants of Saint Johns Parish in Baltimore County have
by Petition represented to this General Assembly that the Com-
missioners heretofore appointed by an Act of Assembly for Building
a Chapel of Ease in the Fork of Gunpowder in the said Parish have
Erected and Built a Large Brick Chapel Sixty feet in Length and
thirty feet in Bredth with an Addition of Forty feet in Length and
thirty feet in Bredth in the most convenient Place of the said Fork
of Gunpowder River and that the said Parish is very extensive and
contains upwards of Two thousand nine hundred Taxables and
therefore Prayed a Division of the said Parish after the Death or
Removal of the Present Incumbent and that the aforesaid Chapel of
Ease may be deemed the Parish Church of the Parish so to be taken
off and devided from Saint Johns Parish aforesaid
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Liber R. G.
1770
[Preamble.]
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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 after the Death or Removal of the Present Incumbent
of the said Parish of Saint Johns in Baltimore County all that part
of the said Parish of Saint Johns that is contained within the
Bounds hereinafter mentioned and exprest That is to say That Bush
River Upper hundred, Mine Run Hundred, North Hundred, and all
that part of Middle River Upper Hundred lying and being to the
North of the Road leading from the Main Road from York to
Baltimore Town where it Crosses the South Branch of Gunpowder
Falls at the Plantation of Walter Dulany Esquire towards the Plan-
tation of John Wilmott and all that part of Gunpowder upper Hun-
dred to the north of the said Main Road leading from the south
Branch aforesaid to Mr Roger Boyce's where it intersects the Mine
Run hundred shall be taken from Saint Johns Parish aforesaid
erected into a new Parish by the name of Saint James Parish and
shall from and after the Death or Removal of the said Incumbent be
deemed reputed and Adjudged and taken for Saint James Parish
and not as part or parcel of Saint Johns Parish aforesaid and that
the lines and boundaries as aforesaid shall always be deemed taken
and reputed to be the undoubted Bounds and Lines to divide the
Parish aforesaid and that the Inhabitants of the Parish of Saint
James's aforesaid after the Death or Removal of the said Incumbent
shall have and enjoy all such Benefits Privileges Powers and Authori-
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[After the
Death or
Removal of
the present
Incumbent,
such Part as
is herein ex-
pressed, shall
be taken
from St.
John's Par-
ish, and
erected into
a new Par-
ish, by the
Name of St.
James's
Parish.]
p. 70
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ties in every respect that the Inhabitants of any other Parish within
this Province now have or hereafter may have or enjoy as Parish-
ioners
And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that the Freeholders
of the said new erected parish shall after the Death or Removal of
the Present Incumbent have full and ample Power to meet at the
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[The Free-
holders of
the said new
erected Par-
ish, after
such Death
or Removal,
are empow-
ered to elect
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