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393 Maintenance of a Minister in the same Parish and to their Successors forever And Whereas at a Session of Assembly begun and held at the City of Annapolis on or about the fourth day of October in the Year of our Lord Seventeen hundred and Sixty three the Rector Vestrymen and Church Wardens and Sundry of the Principal Inhabitants and Freeholders of the said Parish by their humble Petition to the said Assembly set forth their being seised of the said Land and that it was very inconveniently Scituated in an extreme Part of the said Parish near a Place called Sandy Point and Prayed that an Act might Pass to enable the Rector Vestrymen and Churchwardens of the said Parish to sell the said Land for the uses therein mentioned Whereupon An Act of the Assembly aforesaid was made and Passed whereby the Vestrymen and Church Wardens aforesaid or the Major Part of them were impowered to Sell and Dispose of and Convey in fee Simple to the Person that should bid the highest Price and not under three hundred Pounds Sterling the aforesaid Tract or Parcell of Land within Twelve Months from the end of the said Session at Public Vendue giving two Months notice of the said Sale in the Maryland Gazette as by the said Act entituled An Act to enable the Rector Vestrymen and Church Wardens of the Parish of St Margarets Westminster in Ann Arundel County for the Time being to sell a Tract of land therein mentioned and to Apply the Produce Money arising by such Sale towards the Purchase of another Peice of Land to be made a Glebe for the use of the Incumbent of that Parish and his Successors may Appear And Whereas the said Land hath since in Pursuance of and Agreeable in all things to the Directions of the said Act been Sold and Disposed of at Publick Vendue to the said Horatio Sharpe for the sum of three hundred and five Pounds sterling being the highest Price bid therefor two Months notice of such intended Sale being first (given) |
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