Acts. 369

or to the Major Part of them who are hereby Authorized and em-
powered to receive and apply the same to the use and purposes afore-
said But if it shall at any Time happen that the said Parish shall
be with out an Organist then the said Assessment shall be applied
to the General use of the same Parish

Liber R. G.
1774

Provided always and be it Enacted that it shall and may be Lawful
for the Several and respective Inhabitants of the Parish aforesaid
to pay and discharge the said Several Quantities of Tobacco so to
be levied and raised for the uses aforesaid in Money in the same
manner as they are or shall here after be enabled to pay and discharge
the Public or County Levies any Clause Matter or thing herein to
the contrary notwithstanding

[Which may
be dis-
charged in
Money.]

p. 323

This Act to continue Three Years and to the end of the next
Session of Assembly which shall happen after the Expiration of the
said Three Years

[Continu-
ance.]

By the Lower House of
Assembly April 12.^th 1774
Read and Assented to,
Signed by order
Jn.^o Duckett Cl. Lo. Ho

4 sides

On Behalf of the Right
Honourable the Lord
Proprietary of this Prov-
ince I Will this be a Law
Rob,t Eden

the great seal

in wax appendant

By the Upper House of
Assembly April 13.^th 1774
Read and assented to,
Signed by order
James Brooks Cl. Up Ho

No. 8 An Act to impower the Justices of Somerset County to levy on the
Taxable Inhabitants of that Part of Stepney Parish which lies
in the said County a Quantity of Tobacco for the Purposes therein
Mentioned

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 the
Justices of Somerset County for the Time being shall and may at
their November Court for this present Year Assess on the Taxable
Inhabitants of that Part of Stepney Parish which lies in Somerset
County the Quantity of Thirty two Thousand five hundred and
Twenty eight pounds of Tobacco together with a Commission of
Five p Cent to the Sheriff of the said County for receiving and col-
lecting the same which said Assessment when made shall be payable
in Tobacco or Money and shall and may be collected distrained and
executed for by the Sheriff aforesaid in the same manner as Public
and County levies may be collected and distrained or executed for
and shall be paid by the said Sheriff to the Reverend M.^r John Scott
Mess:^rs William Adams George Day Scott Joseph Dashiel and
George Dashiel or the Major Part of them who shall receive apply
and expend the same towards or in discharge of the expences already
incurred or to be incurred in finishing and Compleating the Chappie

[Justices of
Somerset
County to
levy on the
taxable In-
habitants of
that Part of
Stepney
Parish
which lies in
said County,
the Quantity
of 32,528 lb.
of Tobacco,
for finishing
the Chapel at
Spring Hill.]