240 Assembly Proceedings, October 2-November 30, 1771.

Liber R. G.

1771
said Parish
96,000 lb
Tobacco, for
building a
new Parish
Church.]

Assessments, which said Assessments shall be respectively made by
the Justices aforesaid in Proportion to the taxable Inhabitants of the
said Parish residing in their respective Counties & the same together
with the Sheriff's Salary for Collection shall be payable by the taxable
Inhabitants of the said Parish & collected by the Sheriffs of said
Counties in common Money at the Rate of twelve Shillings & six
Pence per hundred Pounds of Tobacco, & shall be by them re-
spectively paid to the Vestry & Church Wardens of the said Parish
for the Time being who are hereby authorized & impowered to apply
the same to the Building a new Parish Church at or near the Place
where the Old one now stands to no other Use or Purpose what-
soever.

By the Lower House of
Assembly October 23.
1771. Read & Assented to
Signed by Order
Jn.° Duckett Cl. Lo. Ho.

On Behalf of the Right
Honble the Lord Pro-
prietary of this Province
I Will this be a Law
Rob.^t Eden.

By the Upper House of
Assembly Nov.^r 4.^th 1771.
Read & Assented to.
Signed by Order,
U. Scott, Cl. Up. Ho.

The Great Seal
in Wax Appendant.

No. 4

p. 105

A Supplementary Act to the Act entitled an Act for the Building a
Parish Church in Queen Anne Parish in Prince Georges County.

[Preamble,
reciting
Part of a
former
Act.]

Whereas by the Act entitled an Act for the Building a Parish
Church in Queen Anne Parish in Prince Georges County the Justices
of the said County were thereby required to Levy upon the Payable
Inhabitants of the said Parish a Quantity not exceeding one hun-
dred & fifty thousand Pounds of Tobacco together with the Sheriff's
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 November Court in the Year of our Lord one thou-
sand seven hundred & seventy, One third Part thereof at their
November Court in the Year one thousand seven hundred & seventy
one, and the remaining one third Part thereof at their November
Court in the Year one thousand seven hundred & seventy two. But
it appearing that for the Want of timely Notice of the said Act no
Part of the above Sum of one hundred and fifty thousand Pounds
of Tobacco was levied by the Justices aforesaid at their November
Court in the Year seventeen hundred & seventy.

[An
Omission
under the
former Act
remedied.]

Be it therefore enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Pro-
prietary by & with the Advice & Consent of his Lordship's Gov-
ernor & the Upper & Lower Houses of Assembly & the Authority
of the same, That the Justices of Prince Georges County shall & they
are hereby required to levy on the Taxable Inhabitants of Queen
Anne Parish aforesaid at their November Court which shall be in
the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & seventy three