Acts. 245

paid & discharged any Clause or Matter herein to the Contrary
notwithstanding.

Liber R. G.
1771

And Whereas several Vestrymen Church Wardens & other Parish-
oners of Stepney Parish in Somerset & Worcester Counties by their
Humble Petition to this General Assembly have represented that
upwards of thirty Years past on the Decay of the Old Parish
Church for the Parish aforesaid, the Church now called Greenhill
Church, was built in the Room & Stead of the said Old Parish
Church, that ever since the Erection of the Church at Greenhill it

[The Church
called
Green hill
Church,]

hath been called deemed & used as the Parish Church for the said
Parish, that it is incertain whether there be any Law to establish &
confirm the said Church at Greenhill, the Parish Church for said
Parish & have prayed an Act may pass to establish the said Church
at Greenhill the Parish Church for said Parish.

p. 109

Be it therefore enacted by the Authority Advice & Consent afore-
said that the Church at Greenhill in Somerset County shall be deemed
called & taken to be the Parish Church for said Parish & that all
Proceedings heretofore by the Vestry of said Parish done & trans-
acted in said Church at Greenhill shall be deemed & held & are hereby
declared good & valid to all Interests Constructions & Purposes
whatsoever, any Law or Usage to the Contrary notwithstanding.

[to be
deemed the
Parish
Church for
said Parish.]

By the Lower House of
Assembly, October 25.^th
1771, Read & assented to.
Signed by Order,
Jn.o 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. 10 An Act to empower the Justices of Worcester County to levy on
the Taxable Inhabitants of All Hallows Parish in said County
the Quantity of thirty two thousand Founds of Tobacco for the
Uses therein mentioned.

Whereas the Rector Vestrymen Church Wardens & sundry of the
Inhabitants of All Hallows Parish in Worcester County have by
their Humble Petition to this present General Assembly, set forth,
that the Church situate at Snow Hill Town being the only Place in
said Parish whereat Divine Service is performed is so distant from
the Exterior Parts of said Parish that a great Number of the In-
habitants have it not in their Power to attend said Church at Snow
Hill & forasmuch as the said Inhabitants are desirous of having a
Chapel of Ease erected in such Part of the said Parish where they
may partake of the Advantage of attending Divine Service & having
a Sermon once in every three Weeks & have prayed that an Act may
pass to enable the Justices of Worcester County to levy on the Tax-
able Inhabitants of All Hallows Parish in Worcester County afore-
said the Quantity of thirty two thousand Pounds of Tobacco at two

[Preamble.]