370 Assembly Proceedings, March 23-April 19, 1774.

Liber R. G.

1774

of Ease at Spring Hill at the Head of Wiccomoco River and at
Broad Creek in the said Parish.

By the Lower House of
Assembly April 12 1774
Read and Assented to.
Signed by order
Jn.^o Duckett Cl. Lo. Ho J
3 1/2 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^r Ho

No. 9

p. 324

An Act for the Building of a Parish Church in All Saints Parish
in Calvert County

[Preamble.]

Whereas Sundry of the Inhabitants of All Saints Parish in Calvert
County have by their Humble Petition to this General Assembly
set forth that the Parish Church in the County aforesaid is now
become so much decayed that they cannot with any degree of Safety
repair thereto and attend upon devine service; and being desirous,
not only to remove this Inconveniance but to promote and advance
Religion and render the Attendance on Public Worship more safe
and agreeable by Erecting on or near the Ground where the Old
church now stands a good Sufficient and commodious Building for
such necessary, pious and Laudable Purpose's have humbly Prayed
that an Act may Pass that a Quantity not Exceeding two Hundred
Thousand pounds of Tobacco may be levied upon the Taxable In-
habitants of the said Parish by Three Equal Assessments

[Persons
named to
agree for one
Acre of
Land, and
also with
proper Per-
sons to un-
dertake the
building of
a new
Church &c.]

Be it therefore Enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Pro-
prietary 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 Reverend M.^r Thomas John Clagett and Mess:^rs Ed-
ward Gantt, Thomas Reynolds, Charles Graham and William Ireland
or the Major Part of them be and are hereby authorized and im-
powered to treat and agree with some person or persons having land
adjoining to the ground where the old Church now Stands for a
Quantity of Ground not exceeding One Acre and also to treat and
agree with such person or persons as they shall think proper to un-

[Justices to
levy on the
taxable In-
habitants of
All Saint's
Parish, at
their No-
vember
Court in
1774, 1775,
and 1776
200,000 lb.
Tobacco
for the
Purposes
aforesaid
&c;]

dertake Erect and Build and in a Workman like manner compleat
and finish a Parish Church on or near the Ground where the old
Church now stands
And be it also Enacted that the Justices of Calvert County afore-
said for the Time being shall and may at their next ensuing Novem-
ber Courts to be held in the Year Seventeen Hundred and seventy
ffour, Seventeen Hundred and seventy five, and Seventeen Hundred
and Seventy Six, Assess and levy on the Taxable Inhabitants of the
said Parish a Quantity not exceeding the aforesaid sum of Two
Hundred Thousand pounds of Tobacco together with the Sheriffs
Salary of five p Cent for collecting the same which said Assess-
ments so as aforesaid when made shall be collected by the Sheriff