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

Liber R. G.
1770
Vestrymen
and Church-
wardens,
who shall
have the
same Pow-
ers, &c. as
Vestrymen
and Church-
wardens of
other Par-
ishes, &c.]

Parish Church on the Easter Monday next after such Death or
Removal and then & there to elect and Make Choice of Six Vestry-
men and two Church Wardens to serve as a Vestry of the said Parish
for the ensuing Year and the same afterwards to alter and Renew at
such times and in such manner as the Laws of this Province do direct
for other Parishes and that the said Vestrymen and Church Wardens
shall be Vested with the same Powers Privileges and Authorities as
Vestrymen and Church Wardens of other Parishes within this Prov-
ince are Vested with and shall be liable and Subject to the same
Penalties and forfeitures and in such manner as the Laws of this
Province have Provided in Like cases

[The Chapel
of Ease to be
the Parish
Church of
St. James's.]

And be it further Enacted by the Authority of the same that the
said Chapel of Ease after the Death or Removal of the Present In-
cumbent shall be Deemed taken and reputed the Parish Church of
the said New Erected Parish of Saint James's

By the Lower House of
Assembly 30^th Octo: 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 30.^th
1770 Read & Assented to
Signed by Order
U Scott Cl. Up. Ho.

the great seal in
wax appendant

N.^o 19
p. 71

An Act to invest Isaac Perkins with an Exclusive Privilege and
Benefit of making and Selling a Machine for Threshing of Wheat
on a Model by him invented

[A Private
Act.]

Whereas Isaac Perkins of Kent County by his humble Petition
to this General Assembly has set forth that he had for some time
past been engaged in constructing a Machine for the more Speedily
and Effectual Threshing and Cleaning of wheat by which with the
Help of one Man and a Boy and Horse would Thresh and Clean
out at Least the Quantity of Forty Bushels of Wheat in one Day
and thereby prayed that an Exclusive Privilege and Benefit of mak-
ing a Machine or Permitting the same to be made should be secured
to him and whereas upon viewing the Model of the said Machine
it is thought that a Machine constructed thereon would answer the
Purpose mentioned in the said Petition and be of great Utility to
this Province and it appearing Reasonable to this General Assembly
that the said Isaac Perkins should Reap for a Stated time some
Advantage from his said Invention
Be it therefore Enacted by the right Honourable the Lord Pro-
prietary by and with the Advice and consent of his Lordships Gov-
ernor and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly and the
Authority of the same that the sole and exclusive Right Privilege

and Benefit of making Vending and Selling within this Province
Threshing Machines Similar to the Model exhibited by the said