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The honble Sam^l Young Esq^r & Col Charles Greenberry
appointed to join with some of the Members of the House as
a Committee for apportioning the publick Levy and the af^d
Gent, sent to acquaint the House thereof

M^r James Bowles & three other Delegates bring up the
following engrossed Bills viz.

A Bill appointing how long Suspected Runaways shall lie
in prison.

A Bill for reviving & Continuing an Act of Assembly of
this Province Entituled an Act for the ordering & regulating
the militia of this Province for the better defence & Security
thereof & for supplying some Defects therein

A Bill for Settling and Vesting an Estate of Inheritance in
fee simple of & In one hund^d & fifty Acres of Land lying in
Calvert County on W^m Hickman of Calvert County Carpen-
ter Son & Heir of W^m Hickman dec^d And by the s^d Hickman
the Father purchased of & from a certain Tho^s Hinton.

U. H. J.

A Bill for the naturalization of Peter Saunders of Talbot
County Planter & his Children, Stephen Rashoon of the same
County Planter & his Children, & William Cody of Charles
County Taylor & his Children

A Bill confirming the Title of Land therein mentioned unto
Col William Holland Rich^d Harrison and Sam^l Chew

A Bill reviving an Act for Limitation of officers' Fees

A Bill to reform the ill practices of Sheriffs within this
Province

A Bill for the relief of Tobias Pollard and John Pollard of
Dorchester County Gentl.

A Bill impowering Robert Roberts of Queen Ann's County
to Sell part of a Tract of Land lying in Cecil County called
New Munster late the Land of John Toas for the uses therein
mentioned and to make good & Valid such Sale and —

A Bill to make good & Valid in Law all Process & Pro-
ceedings of S^t Mary's County Court from the 8th day of June
this present year to the first Tuesday of Novem^r next Ensuing

All which Bills were Endorsed November the I^st 1711

Read & assented to by the House of Delegates and they
being likewise read & assented to by this Board were returned
to the House of Delegates by Col Ennalls & Col Tilghman

L^t Col Gale and three other members of the House brought
up a Bill to Vest two Tracts of Land in Rich^d Bennett Esq^r
late the Land of Jn^o Howell Endorsed — read again in the
House of Delegates & will pass as amended.

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