130 Assembly Proceedings, November 17-December 20, 1769.

Liber R. G.
1769

Anne's County and of Saint Pauls Parish lying partly in Queen
Anne's and partly in Talbot County

[Preamble,
reciting an
Act passed
in 1765, chap,
xxxviii.]

Whereas by the said Act it was among other Things enacted That
the Justices of Queen Anne's and Talbot Counties aforesaid should
Levy on the Taxable Inhabitants of Saint Pauls Parish aforesaid
within their Counties respectively the Sum of Thirty Thousand
Pounds of Tobacco together with the Sheriffs Salary of five pounds
of Tobacco per Centum for Collecting the same by Three equal As-
sessments for the Purposes in the said Act mentioned and also the
sum of Eighty Thousand pounds of Tobacco together with the
Sheriffs Salary of Five Pounds of Tobacco per Centum for collecting
the same by Three equal Assessments for the Purposes in the same
Act mentioned and that to the End that the said County Courts might
be the better enabled to apportion the said Sums of Thirty Thousand
and Eighty Thousand Pounds of Tobacco among the Taxable In-
habitants of Saint Pauls Parish aforesaid it was further enacted
That the Justices of the said County Courts should cause the Clerks
of the said Courts to Certify each to the other by the Third day
of their Courts to be held in the Month of November next after
making the said Act and by the Third Days of their two then next
succeeding November Courts the Number of Taxable Persons in that
part of Saint Pauls Parish which should be in Queen Annes County
and in that part of the said Parish which should be in Talbot County
aforesaid respectively after the Division of the Parishes directed to
be made by the said Law should be made

[Part of
which not
carried in
Execution.]

And Whereas the Rector Vestrymen and Church Wardens and
many other of the Inhabitants of Saint Pauls Parish aforesaid by
their Humble Petition to this general Assembly have set forth that
the first and second Assessments of the said Quantities of Tobacco

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directed to be made by the said Act were not made or Levied on the
Taxable Inhabitants of that part of the said Parish Lying in Talbot
County occasioned as they apprehend by a Misconstruction of the
said Act by which means no Certificates as therein Directed were
Transmitted from Queen Anne's to Talbot County Court of the
Number of Taxes within that part of the Parish which Lies in Queen
Anne's County untill the Levies in Talbot County were apportioned
and have therefore prayed that an Act may now pass to impower the
Justices of Talbot County to Levy at two equal annual Assessments
on the Taxable Inhabitants living in that Part of the said Parish
which Lies in Talbot County their first and second Proportions of
the aforesaid Quantities of Thirty Thousand and Eighty Thousand
pounds of Tobacco and have also prayed that the further Quantity
of One Hundred and sixty Thousand pounds of Tobacco may be
Levied at Three equal Assessments on the Taxable Inhabitants of
the said Parish and that one Hundred and Twenty thousand pounds
of Tobacco part thereof may be applyed towards Building and com-