186 Assembly Proceedings, May 21--June 16, 1730.

Session
Laws

Provided Always, That the Power and Authority by the afore-
said recited Act, and this present Act, given to the Vestry or Vestries,
for the Election of a Vestryman or Vestrymen, Churchwarden or
Churchwardens, and the Fines and Penalties by this Act, and the
aforesaid recited Act, imposed on the Vestryman or Vestrymen,
Register or Registers, Churchwarden or Churchwardens refusing
or neglecting the Office and Duty required of them by the aforesaid
recited Act, and this present Act, shall not be construed or under-
stood to make any Person or Persons liable to such Choice or Pen-
alties, who shall be publickly known to be of any Profession in Re-
ligion different from that of the Church of England established by
Law; any Thing in this Act contained to the contrary thereof, in any-
wise, notwithstanding.

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And Be It Further Enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the
several Vestries within this Province, to allow unto the Clerk or
Register of each Vestry yearly, any Quantity of Tobacco, not exceed-
ing One Thousand Pounds of Tobacco, for their Services as Clerk
or Register of the said Parish; which they may raise, on Application
to the County Justices, by an equal Assessment upon the Taxable
Inhabitants of the said Parishes; which Justices are hereby directed
and impowerecl on such Application to assess the same.

Chap. XXV

An Act impowering a Committee to lay, assess, and apportion the
Publick Levy, for this present Year, One Thousand Seven Hun-
dred and Thirty.

Whereas, this present General Assembly have, for the defraying
the Publick Charge of this Province to the Fifteenth Day of June
Instant, raised a certain Sum of Tobacco and Money, amounting to
Two Hundred and Twenty Three Thousand Four Hundred and
Fifty Pounds of Tobacco, as by the Journal of the Committee of
Accounts appears; but by Reason more Public Charges may arise,
and grow due before the usual and accustomed Time of Payment,
which is the Tenth of November yearly; at which Time, again to
call and convene the whole Assembly for that Occasion only, con-
sidering the great Number of them, and the Remoteness of their
Habitations from the Place appointed, would be very chargeable
and troublesome to the whole Province in General :
Be it Enacted, by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary,
by and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's Governeur,
and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the Authority
of the same, That the Honourable Charles Calvert, Esq^r; Col. Wil-
liam Holland, Philemon Lloyd, Esq^r Benjamin Tasker, Esq^r and
Philip Lee, Esq^r of his Lordship's Honourable Upper House of As-
sembly; and the Honourable Col. John Mackall, Col. Thomas True-
man Greenfield, James Harris, Esq^r John Beale, Esq^r Col. John Fen-
dal, M^r George Dashields, M^r Samuel Chamberlain, Col. William En-