420 Acts Passed at the Session, April 26- May 3, 1704.

Lib. L. L.

No. 2.

men shall take the before recited oath of Abjuration and th^t
it be Administred to them according to the forms and methods
prescribed in the afd Act of Assembly, for taking the oaths
therein required to be taken and after the taking such Oath
the pson so Elected or Chosen shall be deemed and taken to
be one of the Vestry and not before

May the I^st 1704 May the 1^st 1704

Read and Assented to by the Read and Assented to by her
house of Delegates Majties hon^ble Councill
W Taylard Clk house Del. W Bladen Cl Concil.

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May the third Seventeen hundred and four.

On the behalf of her most Sacred Majesty Anne by the
grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland and
the Dominions thereunto belonging Queen Defender of the
faith &c^a
I will this to be a Law Sealed
Jo Seymour with the
great Seale

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An Act to Declare how the forty pounds of tobacco p poll in
such Parishes where there is no Incumbent shall be disposed
of

Whereas by an Act of Assembly made at a Generall As-
sembly begun and held at the Port of Annapolis the twenty
sixth day of Aprill One Thousand Seven hundred and two
Entituled an act for the Service of Allmighty God and Estab-
lishment of Religion in this Province according to the Church
of England &c^a There is no provision made where there is a
Vacancy or no Incumbent in a Parish how or to what use the
forty pounds of tobacco p Poll shall be Applyed
Therefore the Burgesses and Delegates of This p^rsent Gen-
erall Assembly pray that it may be Enacted and Be it Enacted
by the Queens most Excellent Majesty by and With the advice
& Consent of her Majesty's Governour Councill and Assem-
bly of this Province and the Authority of The same that what
tobacco of the said forty p poll hath is or shall become due
in any Parish where there is hath or shall be no incumbent the
said tobacco shall be Employed and applyed to and for the
uses following (that is to say) by the Vestry men of Each re-
spective Parish who are hereby Empowered to dispose thereof
for and toward the repairing such Churches as are allready
built finishing and Compleating the insides thereof as the said