Acts. 373

scribed large Sums of Money Amounting together to two Thousand
five Hundred pounds Common Money and Upwards and others are
still expected to subscribe further sums so as to raise the said Sub-
scription in the whole to three Thousand pounds Common Money
under an Expectation that a Tax should be imposed by the General
Assembly on the Taxable Inhabitants of Saint Anns Parish Sufficient
to raise one Thousand pounds Common Money and also that the
General Assembly would grant a Sum of Public Money the whole to
be applied in Erecting Building and finishing a large Commodious
and Elegant Church with a Steeple thereto to Cover the Spot where
the said Old Church now Stands

Liber R. G.
1774

Be it therefore Enacted by the Right Honourable 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 Honourable John Ridout Esquire Samuel Chase
and William Paca Esquires Doctor Upton Scott and M.^r Thomas
Hyde, shall be and are hereby appointed Trustees for the purpose
of Building the said New Church and they or the Major part of
them are hereby impowered to set up and Expose to sale to the
Highest bidder all the Materials of the said Old Church (except
such parts thereof if any as have been set up by private People) or
to cause the said Old Church to be pulled down and the materials
thereof or such of them as they may think Proper to use and
apply in building the said New Church and the said Trustees or the
Major Part of them are also impowered as soon as conveniently
may be to cause a New and Commodious Church the center whereof
shall be in the same place or point where the Center of the same
Church is and a Steeple thereto to be Erected built and finished in
the best manner that the same can be done for the Money Subscribed
granted and raised by Virtue of this Act and the said Trustees or
the Major Part of them are hereby fully impowered in their discre-

[Trustees
appointed;
who are
empowered to
sell the
Materials of
the old
Church, and
cause a new
one to be
erected.]

tion to agree for the said work with a Contractor or Contractors
for the whole entire or in Parcels or to purchase Materials and hire
workmen and Labourers to do the said work as to them shall
seem best,

p. 327

And be it further enacted that the Trustees aforesaid or the
Major Part of them shall and may receive all Monies already sub-
scribed or hereafter to be Subscribed to or for the Purpose of
Building the said New Church and if any subscriber shall neglect
or refuse to pay his subscription Money the said Trustees or the
Major Part of them are hereby Authorized and required to sue for,
and recover the same in an Action of Tresspass upon the case in
which it shall be sufficient to declare for the Money Subscribed as
for so much money had and received by the Defendant for the use
of the Plaintiffs.

[Trustees to
receive, all
Monies sub-
scribed, &c.]