254 Assembly Proceedings, November 16-December 23, 1773.

Liber R. G.

1773

And Whereas the said Samuel Dorsey by his humble Petition to
this General Assembly hath prayed an Act may Pass for annulling
the said Restrictive Clause in his Fathers Will and Edward Dorsey
the Devisee over now an Infant of the Age of Fourteen Years and
upwards, Charles Ridgely and Rebecca his Wife William Buchanan
Junior and Peggy his Wife, Michael Pue and Mary his Wife and
Eleanor Dorsey have joined in the same Petition and William
Goodwin and Milcah his Wife have not objected against such
Act; the said Rebecca Ridgely, Peggy Buchanan, Mary Pue, Eleanor
Dorsey and Milcah Goodwin being the Daughters of the said Caleb
Dorsey and Devisees over in Default of Issue of the said Edward
Dorsey: And it appearing that the Marriage of the said Samuel
Dorsey with the Person described in the said Will by the Name of
Peggy or Margaret Sprigg can be no Disparagement Be it therefore
enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary by and with
the Advice and Consent of his Governor and the Upper and Lower
Houses of Assembly and the Authority of the same That the said
Condition or Respective Clause shall be wholly void and that the
said Will shall stand and be construed as if no such Clause had been
contained therein —

By the Lower House of
Assembly Dec.^r 22.^st 1773
Read and Assented to
Signed by Order
Jn.^o Duckett Clk Lo: Ho...

4 Sides

On behalf of the Right
Honble the Lord Pro-
prietary of this Province
I will this be a Law
Rob^t Eden

The great Seal
in wax appendant

[By the Upper House of
Assembly Dec.^r 21^st 1773
Read and Assented to
Signed by Order
U. Scott Clk. Up. Ho.

No. 28

p. 296

An Act for the Support of the Clergy of the Church of England in
this Province —
Be it enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary by
and with the Advice and Consent of his Governor and the Upper
and Lower Houses of Assembly and the Authority of the same That

[Every tax-
able Inhabi-
tant to pay
30 lb. of
Inspected
Tobacco, or
in Money
on 32 lb.
of Tobacco,
for the
Maintenance
of his Min-
ister, &c.]

every Taxable Inhabitant within this Province shall on or before
the tenth Day of June in every Year during the Continuance of this
Act pay unto the sheriff of his County to and for the support and
Maintainance of his Minister thirty Pounds of inspected Tobacco in
Inspectors Notes or in Money or thirty two pounds of Tobacco in
Gold or Silver at the Rates expressed and limited in the Act entitled
"An Act for the Regulation of the staple of Tobacco and for pre-
venting Frauds in his Majestys Customs" and no more and after the
said tenth Day of June Yearly every Person shall be obliged to pay
on the said thirty two pounds of Tobacco in Gold or Silver as afore-
said. And if any Taxable shall neglect or refuse to pay and dis-
charge the said Money in Gold and Silver at the Rates aforesaid
on or before the tenth Day of August in any Year during the Con-