The Lower House. 139

Monday 3^d November 1712

The House met according to Adjournment Being called
over were all present as on Saturday except the Members for
Baltimore County who were expelled the House.
Read what was done on Saturday.
Ordered M^r John Rousby Naval Officer of Patuxent District
send to Great Britain for Paper, Parchment, Books, Colours,
Ink and other Necessarys as he shall be ordered by Warrant
under M^r Speaker's Hand, on the publick Account and
Risque, and that he be allowed the Charge in his Naval Offi-
cers Accounts

M^r John Leach from the Committee of Accounts enters the
House and reports that William Green of Somerset County
demands Allowance for fifty thousand Pounds of Tobacco for
two thousand five hundred Acres of Land laid out for the
Indians according to the Act for that Purpose
Ordered the Committee of Accounts make Allowances to
him and the rest of the Owners of the Land laid out for the
Indians
John Dent's Petition with the Report of the Committee of
Laws thereon read and Leave given to bring in a Bill as
prayed
Bill against striking ffish, Read with the Amendments &
committed for further Amendments
Col^o Whittington and Col^o Tilghman from the Honble
Council enter the House and deliver M^r Speaker her Majesty's
Order in Council for repealing the Act for Appeals and regu-
lating Writs of Error and the following Message.

By the Honble President and Council in Assembly
November 3^d 1712.

In Answer to your Message by Major Hammond and three
other of your House desiring us to communicate to you the
Reasons laid before her Majesty for repealing the Act for
Appeals and regulating Writs of Error, we herewith send you
her Majesty's Order in Council for repealing that Law by
which you will observe the Reasons inducing thereto.
Signed p Order W Bladen Cl. Council.

Supplementary Bill to the Act for Constables &^ta Read the
second Time. Put to the Question whether a Clause be
added to excuse impotent Negroes from being Taxables?
Carried in the Negative and Resolved the Bill pass
Bill reviving the Act for Encouragement of Tillage and

L. H. J.
Lib. 41