Acts. 243

be imported Duty Free; any Thing herein to the Contrary notwith-
standing. Provided also that if any Importer or bringer in of any
such Negroes as aforesaid shall desire to export them or any of
them within four Months from the Time of their Importation &
shall make Report thereof to the Naval Officer with whom they
were first entered & shall export all or any of them it shall & may
be lawful for such Naval Officer to repay the aforesaid Duty to
such Importer or bringer in for such Negroes in Proportion to the
Number that shall be so exported.

Liber R. G.
1771

This Act to continue & be in Force for & during the Term of
seven Years & to the End of the next Session of Assembly which
shall happen after the said seven Years.

[Continu-
ance.]

By the Lower House of
Assembly, October 26.^th
1771. Read & assented to.
Signed by Order,
Jn.° Duckett Cl. Lo. Ho.

On Behalf of the Right
Honble the Lord Pro-
prietary of this Province
I Will this be a Law.
Rob.t Eden.

By the Upper House of
Assembly Nov.^r 4.^th 1771.
Read & assented to.
Signed by Order.
U Scott Cl. Up. Ho.

The Great Seal
in Wax appendant

No. 8 A Supplementary Act to the Act entitled an Act for the Building
of a Parish Church in Christ Church Parish in Calvert County.

Whereas the Justices of Calvert County were directed by the
Act entitled an Act for the Building of a Parish Church in Christ
Church Parish in Calvert County made at a Session of Assembly
begun & held at the City of Annapolis on the seventeenth Day of
November One thousand seven hundred & sixty nine to assess on
the Taxable Inhabitants of the said Parish at three equal Assess-
ments the Quantity of one hundred & sixty thousand Pounds of
Tobacco. And Whereas one third Part of the said Tobacco remains
yet to be assessed & it is represented to this present General As-
sembly that the same will be more than sufficient to answer the
Purposes of erecting building compleating & finishing the said
Parish Church.

[Preamble,
reciting Part
of a former
Act for
building a
Parish
Church in
Christ
Church
Parish.]

Be it enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary by &
with the Advice & Consent of his Lordship's Governor & the Upper
& Lower Houses of Assembly & the Authority of the same That the
Vestrymen & Church Wardens of the said Parish or the Major
Part of them shall & they are hereby required by the fifth Day of
next November Court to certify to the Justices of Calvert County
aforesaid the Quantity of Tobacco that is requisite & necessary for
finishing & compleating the said Parish Church & the said Justices
shall not assess on the Taxable Inhabitants of the said Parish a
greater Quantity of Tobacco than shall be so certified with the

[A Quantity
of Tobacco
necessary for
compleating
the same to
be assessed
on the tax-
able Inhabi-
tants of said
Parish.]