GASR_Colonial_Bills_176005_13

1 May 3, 1760

Whereas making Provision for the Clergy, Pro
=viding for the poor and the due Management of Parochial
Affairs require that a Vestry be established in each Parish
this Province under Proper regulations.

Therefore enacted, by the Governor Council
and Assembly and by the authority of the same, that the Free ho[torn]
=ers of each Parish shall and are hereby directed to meet on the [first?]
^(dele and on every Easter Monday ^(in) [crossed out word illegible] ^(second) Year thence after)
every Monday in September next after the passing of this act at the
Court house or place where the County Court is Commonly held
or at the usual place of electing Vestrymen there and then to Choose
and elect twelve Freeholders to serve as Vestrymen, which Vestrymen
so Chosen shall by the Sheriff or his Deputy be summoned to
meet at the Church in each respective Parish and where there is no
Church at the Courthouse or Place where the County Court is
held, with in twenty Days next after such Choice to Qualify them
=selves according to the directions of this act, and if the Sheriff
shall neglect or refuse to Summon or Cause to be summoned the
Vestry as aforesaid he shall forfeit and pay the sum of Twenty
Shillings Proclamation Money for each and every Vestryman
not summoned as aforesaid to be levied and applied as herein
after directed. And the said Sheriff shall be paid by the
Parish the sum of Two [blank space] Shillings Proclamation Money
for each Vestryman he shall so summon.

And that the election may be made in a fair & open
manner, Be it enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That
at ^([crossed out word illegible] all) elections of Vestrymen hereafter to be made, the Sheriff
of the County or head Deputy, shall attend at the Court house
of the County, or Place where the County Court is held, or
usual place of electing Vestrymen, and [crossed out] then [end crossed out] ^(there) to take the Votes
in the following manner; that is to say, He shall open
the poll at Ten o'Clock in the forenoon, and after proclama
=tion to the Freeholders to come and give their Votes for Vestry=
=men shall take a list of the names of the Voters who shall give
their Suffrages, which shall be for neither more nor less than
twelve,

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