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Session
Laws
Chap. XXV
p. 23
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An Act for the Repairing and Inlarging of the Church in the City
of Annapolis; and for the Building a Chapel of Ease, in the
Parish of St. Anne's, in Anne-Arundel County: And to impower
the Raising and Levying a Quantity of Tobacco, for that Pur-
pose.
Whereas on the Petition of the Vestry-Men, Church- Wardens
and Inhabitants of St. Anne's Parish, in Anne-Arundel County, it
appears to this General Assembly, that the Church in the City of
Annapolis, to which the said Inhabitants resort for Divine Worship,
is not only very much decayed and ruinous, but also too small and
inconvenient for that Purpose; and also that the said Parish is of
such Extent, that many of the said Inhabitants cannot, without
great Fatigue and Trouble, attend the Worship of God, in the said
Church :
Be it therefore Enacted, by the Right Honourable the Lord Pro-
prietor, by and with the Advice and Consent of His Lordship's Gov-
ernour, and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the
Authority of the same, That it shall and may be lawful for, and the
Vestry and Church-Wardens of the said Parish, are hereby author-
ized and impowered, to inlarge or cause to be inlarged and repaired,
the said Church in the City of Annapolis, with such Dimensions,
and in such Manner, as to them, or the major Part of them, shall
seem meet and proper: And also, that it shall and may be lawful
for, and the said Vestry is hereby authorized and impowered to
build, or cause to be built, a Chapel of Ease, of such Dimensions,
and in such Manner, as to them, or the major Part of them, shall
be adjudged proper; which said Chapel shall be built and stand in
such Part and Place of the said Parish, as shall be determined,
agreed upon, and adjudged most convenient, by the Inhabitants, or
the major Part of them, residing in the Upper Part of the said
Parish; and which said Inhabitants may and shall meet together,
for the Determination and Agreement of such Place, upon con-
venient Notice, to be inserted for that Purpose, by the said Vestry
and Church-.Wardens, in the Maryland Gazette.
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p. 24
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And for the defraying the Charge and Expence of such Inlarge-
ment, Reparation and Building, Be it Enacted, by the Authority
aforesaid, by and with the Advice and Consent aforesaid, That the
Justices of Anne-Arundel County-Court, shall and may, and they
are hereby authorized and directed, on the Application of the said
Vestry and Church- Wardens, to assess and levy, by Two several
Assessments on the Inhabitants of the said Parish, any Quantity or
Quantities of Tobacco, not exceeding in the whole the Quantity of
Forty Thousand; and which said Quantity or Quantities of Tobacco,
so to be assessed and levied, shall be collected by the Sheriff of the
said County, who is hereby authorized and directed to collect the
same; and who shall have for such Collection, at and after the Rate
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