The Upper House. 319

Present as Yesterday

Read and referred to the Consideration of the Lower House of
Assembly, The Petition of Philip Love, The Petition of the Trus-
tees of the Poor of Ann Arundel County, the Petition of the
Trustees of the Poor of Frederick County, The Petition of sundry
Inhabitants of Frederick County for repairing the Roads, The Peti-
tion of the Rector Vestrymen and Church wardens of Christs
Church Parish in Calvert County; and the Petition of Sundry In-
habitants of Saint Marys, Calvert, Charles and Prince Georges
Counties for erecting a School at the Cool Springs. These Petitions
were severally endorsed and sent to the Lower House by William
Hayward Esquire.

Adjourned until Three of the Clock in the Afternoon.

Eodem Die Post Meridiem.
The House met again according to Adjournment.

Present as in the Morning.

Mess.^rs Ware and Hawkins attend with M.^r William Smallwood
a Member elected for Charles County, to see him Qualified, who
takes the Oaths to the Government appointed to be taken by Act
of Assembly, repeats and Subscribes the Abjuration and Test, and
then withdraws.

Adjourned until to Morrow Morning Ten of the Clock.

U. H. J.
Liber No. 36
June 22

Wednesday Morning 23.^d June 1773.
The House met again according to Adjournment.

Present as Yesterday.
Mess.^rs Wilson and Robins attend with Mess.^rs Peter Waters, a
Member elected for Somerset County, and Peter Chaille for Worces-
ter County, to See them Qualified, who take the Oaths to the Gov-
ernment appointed to be taken by Act of Assembly, repeat and

June 23

Subscribe the Abjuration and Test, and then withdraw.
The Engrossed Bill entitled. "An Act concerning Estates-tail and
the Jurisdiction of the County Courts" is Read and Assented to by
this House, and Ordered to be so Subscribed. Sent together with the
Paper Bill to the Lower House by William Fitzhugh Esq.^r
Read and referred to the Consideration of the Lower House of
Assembly the Petitions of Gotlip Neeth, Robert Elder, John Leeds,
Andrew Williams, Edward Preston, Patrick Quigley, John Keeting,
Owen Keef, George Baxter, Joseph Finley, Jane Johnson, Joseph
Robess Rogers, Cha.^s Kees Thomas Tomkins, James Fitzsimmons,
Samuel Gosnell, Patrick Henesey, Philip Barnethouse, James Wood-

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