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Be it therefore Enacted, by the Right Honourable the Lord Pro-
prietary, by and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's
Governor, and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the
Authority of the same, That the Justices of Calvert County Court,
for the Time being, on Application of the Vestrymen and Church-
wardens of the Parish aforesaid, or the major part of them, shall
cause to be levied on the Taxable Persons of the said Parish, the
Quantity of One Hundred Thousand Pounds of Tobacco; but that
they exceed not the Quantity of Forty Thousand Pounds of that
Tobacco in any One Year. And that the Sheriff of the same County,
for the Time being, shall pay unto the Vestrymen and Church-
wardens of the said Parish, for the Time being, for the Uses afore-
said, such Quantity of Tobacco as shall be levied.
And be it further Enacted, by the Authority, Advice, and Consent
aforesaid, That the Vestrymen and Churchwardens aforesaid, or
the major Part of them, agree with some Person or Persons for the
building a Church and Vestry-Room on the same Acre of Land
.whereon the late Church stood; also, that they purchase Two Acres
of Land, adjoining to the One Acre aforesaid, for the better Security
of the Church to be built; and that they apply the Tobacco aforesaid,
to be levied, as aforesaid, to the Purchase and Building aforesaid,
and to no other Use.
And be it further Enacted, That the Justices aforesaid, shall cause
to l)e levied as aforesaid, Five per Cent, beyond the aforesaid One
Hundred Thousand Pounds of Tobacco, to satisfy the Sheriff for
Collection.
And be it further Enacted, That in Case the Vestrymen and
Churchwardens of the said Parish, for the Time being, or the major
Part of them, cannot agree with the Owner or Owners of Two Acres
of Land next adjoining to the said One Acre, by Reason of the
Obstinacy of the Person or Persons to whom the same belongs, or
any Impediment whatsoever; that then they give Notice to the
Sheriff of the same County to summons a Jury of Twelve substantial
and indifferent Freeholders of the County aforesaid, to be and appear
at a certain Day, at the Place where the Church stood, and the Sheriff
aforesaid, is hereby authorized, required, and impowerecl, to adminis-
ter to the said Jurors, the following Oath, viz.
You A. B. shall true Enquiry make, as to the Real Value of any
Two Acres of Land, next adjoining to this One Acre whereon the
Parish Church formerly stood, and to whom the same doth belong.
So help you God.
And that the said Vestrymen and Churchwardens, or the major
Part of them, shall cause the said Two Acres of Land to be surveyed
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