128 Assembly Proceedings, November 16-December 22, 1773.

Votes and
Proceedings
of the Lower
House,
printed by
A. C. Green
Dec. 13

ing a a further additional Duty of Five Pounds Current Money per
Poll on all Negroes imported into this Province, passed at a Session of
Assembly, begun and held at the City of Annapolis, on Wednesday
the 22d Day of October, and ended the 30th Day of November,
1771, and by the Acts of Assembly passed before the said 22d Day
of October, 1771."
Which Bill with the Amendments was read.
And the Bill, entitled, A Supplement to the Act, entitled, An Act
for the building of a Parish Church in Christ Church Parish, in
Calvert County, thus indorsed: "By the Upper House of Assembly,
November 27, 1773: Read the First Time and ordered to lie on the
Table.
Signed by Order, U. SCOTT, Cl. Up. Ho.

By the Upper House of Assembly, December 13, 1773: Read the
Second Time and will pass with the annexed Amendments.
Signed by Order, U. SCOTT, Cl. Up. Ho.

Insert after the Word "Tobacco" in the Seventh Line from the
Top of the First Page the following Words, vis. "And by the Act,
entitled, A Supplementary Act to the Act, entitled, An Act for the
building of a Parish Church in Christ Church Parish, in Calvert

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County, made at a Session of Assembly, begun and held at the City
of Annapolis, on Wednesday the Second Day of October, 1771,
it was enacted that the Vestrymen and Churchwardens of the said
Parish or the major Part of them should, and they were thereby re-
quired, by the Fifth Day of the then next November Court, to certify
to the Justices of Calvert County aforesaid, the Quantity of Tobacco
that was requisite and necessary for finishing and compleating the
said Parish Church, and that the said Justices should not assess on
the taxable Inhabitants of the said Parish, a greater Quantity of
Tobacco than should be so certified, with the Sheriff's Salary of
Five per Cent, for collecting the same." Insert after the Word
"Tobacco" in the Tenth Line from the Top of the First Page, the
following Words, viz. "And that the said recited Supplementary
Act had not been carried into Execution."
Which Bill with the Amendments was read.

On reading a Second Time the Amendments proposed to the Two
last mentioned Bills, on Motion, RESOLVED, That as the late Lord
Proprietary died some Time in the Month of September preceding
the late Session of the Assembly, begun and held on the Second
Day of October, 1771, the general Assembly of this Province be-
came and was thereby dissolved, and that the Acts passed at the said
Session were not enacted by legal and constitutional Authority, and
are therefore void. Whereupon the said Amendments were unani-
mously rejected.
The House adjourns till 3 o'Clock.