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of Worship, were carried on with great Spirit for enlarging
or
rebuilding the Parish Church and two Chapels belonging to
the
said Parish.
That the Vestry thought proper to apply the
Money in their
during the late vacancy of the Parish, and from a
Parochial Tax,
towards enlarging the Parish Church at Frederick
Town; which
together with the Voluntary Subscriptions made to the
Enlargement
of the said Church is sufficient to compleat the
Addition con-
tracted for.
That the Chapel below Monocacy, a
crazy wooden Building, hath
(upon a View by skilful Persons) been
judged not worth the Repair-
ing: and the Chapel beyond
the
on so narrow and Contracted a Plan, as not to [be cap] able
of
holding One Third Part of the Congregation willing and
desirous
to attend Divine Service there, cannot be enlarged with
any Profit
or Convenience; So that it is absolutely necessary to
rebuild both
Chapels upon better Plans and with more durable
Matterials.
Your Petitioners therefore most humbly pray that an
Act may
pass enabling the Justices of Frederick County,
aforesaid, to le[vy]
on the Taxable Inhabitants of the said
Parish the Sum of One
[hundrjed a[nd] Twenty Thousand Pounds of
Tobacco; payable
in Money as other Public Dues; by Three equal
Assessments to be
laid at the Three Successive November Courts in
the Years 1761,
1762 & 1763, exclusive of the Sheriff's
Salary, to be paid into the
Hands of the Vestry for the Time
being, and by them applied by
equal portions together with the
Moneys respectively subscribed,
toward the Rebuilding]
Compleating and Finishing the two re-
spective Chap [els]
And
they will ev[er] [pray]
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MSS.
Archives
of Md.
Black Book
No. 10
Letter
108
Hall of
Records
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