Acts. 443

No. 7 An Act for the Establishment of a Chapel of Ease in Saint Peters
Parish in Talbot County

Liber R. G.
1770

Whereas it is represented to this present General Assembly that a
Chapel was erected several Years past in Saint Peters Parish by the
Voluntary Contribution of Sundry religiously disposed Persons for
the Convenience of many of the Inhabitants of the said Parish who
live at a great distance from the Parish Church that the said Chapel
was never Compleatly finished and is now much out of repair and
likely to fall to ruin unless Speedily repaired and thereupon it was
prayed that the said Chapel might be made Parochial and the Neces-
sary Expences attending the repairing and Supporting the same be
defrayed in the usual manner by Assessment.

[Preamble.]

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

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Authority of the same That the said Chapel of Ease shall be hereafter
Deemed and taken to be Parochial and that the Rector of Saint
Peters Parish aforesaid for the time being shall and he is hereby
required to perform divine Service there every third Sunday and that
the said Chapel shall be repaired and Supported at the Expence of
the Parishioners of said Parish by Assessments to be made on the
Taxable Inhabitants thereof and collected and paid in the same man-
ner as Parish Assessments have usually been collected and paid for
collecting whereof the Sheriff shall be allowed five per centum with-
out any Reduction.

[The Chapel
of Ease in
St. Peters
Parish
deemed
parochial,
and the
Rector to
perform
Divine Ser-
vice there
every Third
Sunday, &c.]

And Be it further Enacted That the Justices of Talbot County
shall and they are hereby Authorized and required upon Application
made by the Vestrymen and Church Wardens of said Parish to
Assess and Levy on the Taxable Inhabitants thereof such sums of
Tobacco as may be necessary from time to time to repair and support
such Chapel of Ease not exceeding in any one year the sum of Ten
Pounds of Tobacco Per Poll for that and other Parish Assessments

[The Jus-
tices of
Talbot
County may
Assess, from
Time to
Time, 10 lb.
of Tobacco
per Poll for
the Repair

By the Lower House of
Assembly 16^th Nov^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.

and Support
By the Upper House of thereof.]
Assembly 16.^th November
1770 Read and Assented
to
Signed by Order
U Scott Cl: Up. Ho.

the great seal in
wax appendant

No. 8 A Supplementary Act to the Act entituled an Act for the Relief of
the Poor within the Several Counties therein mentioned —

Whereas it is represented to this General Assembly that the Money
arising from the fifteen Pounds of Tobacco per Poll already assessed
and Levied on the Taxable Inhabitants of ffrederick County in the

[Preamble
reciting the
Disposal of
Part of the
15 lb. of
Tobacco per
Poll assessed