42 Assembly Proceedings, October—November 1678.

L. H. Journal
Original.

This howse u
The A wse & passed &
Seu ms.
Came s^d Act assented to.

An Act in of Tobacco seized
& Reed by
An Act for p Province read & passed.
M^r Stone & Cap^t H with the sayd two acts
They Reto
Came the Secry with
Upp howse of Assembly Novemb 9^th 1678.
Their being three convicted psons brought downe to the
Provincial Co^rt in the yeare 1676 & comitted into the Custody
of M^r Clement Hill then highe-Sheriff of St Maryes County,
who mainteined them for Some considerable time at his owne
pp costs and Charges at the Citty of St Maryes and after-
wards carryed them up to his owne howse from whence they
broke prison & Escaped.
This howse are of opinio the sd Hill be considered
of by the Comittee of acc^ts & allowed a onable Satisfac-
tion for the same
Lewellyn Clerke of the Assembly
This howse concurre with wse in the above vote

Upp howse of November the 9^th 1678.
Whereas Diverse of of the Lower howse of As-
sembly fell Soddainely sick last Eating a Duck Py,
& whereas Edward Husbands Chirurgion in prison
upon Suspition of having put Some poyson or unwho
Drugg into the sayd Py.
This howse desire howse to Examine the sayd
Husbands and his case and to deale with him according to the
merrits of his cawse.

p. 47

John Lewellyn Clerke of the Assembly,
p howse with the Act for publishing the
that he will have the Lawes ready to deliver
not engage to deliver them by that time,
from the upp howse about stealing—
se.
the Law for p^rservacon of Orphan ts
mended in Seu^rall pticulers, but the
being very weighty requiring more
on it, They conceive it necessary that
pbate of wills & graunting Admcons
Law & p^rpare a new Law according to
the co at the next Gen^rall Assembly.