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A Bill appointing how long Suspected runaways shall lye
in Prison.

A Bill reviving and continuing the Act for regulating the
Militia for the better defence & Security of this Province &
for Supplying some Defects therein.

A Bill to reform the ill practices of High Sherriffs within
this Province

A Bill for confirming the title of Land therein mentioned
unto Col W^m Holland R^d Harrison and Samuel Chew.

A Bill reviving and continuing the Act for Limitation of
Officers Fees

A Bill for the relief of Tobias & John Pollard of Dorchester
County Gent :

A Bill reviving continuing & making good & valid the
process & Proceedings of S^t Mary's County Court

A Bill for Settling and Vesting an Estate of Inheritance in
fee simple of and in one hundred & fifty Acres of Land lying
in Calvert County on William Hickman of Calvert County
Carpenter Son & Heir of W^m Hickman dec^d & by the s^d
Hickman the Father purchased of & from a certain Thomas
Hinson.

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 & to make good & Valid such Sale

U. H. J.
p. 731

A Bill for the Naturalization of Peter Sanders of Talbot
County Planter & his Children & William Cody of Charles
County Taylor & his Children

A Bill confirming Lands to Major John Hawkins and Henry
Wright

A Bill impowering Thomas Edmonson of Talbott County
Surviving Exec of his Father John Edmonson to sell and dis-
pose of the Lands by the s^d John Edmonson left for paym^t of
his Debts

A Bill to impower Comm^rs to appoint & Cause to be laid
out three thousand Acres of Land on Broad Creek in Somer-
sett County for the use of the Nanticoke Indians so long as
they shall occupy the same

A Bill confirming & making good & effectual in Law a

certain Deed or release made by Susannah Tracy to James
Heath of Queen Ann's County Gent

A Bill to rectifye a Mistake in the Writing of the last Will
& Testam^t of the Reverend M^r John Edwards of Baltimore

p. 732