126 Assembly Proceedings, April 26-June 3,1715.

L. H. J.

p. 512

thereof was read the second Time and committed for Amend-
ment to the Committee of Laws.
A Bill for Amerciaments in the Provincial and County
Courts was read and ordered the same be referred to the
Committee of Laws for their further Consideration, who are
to put it into any Act where the same may properly be inserted.
A Bill to supply certain Defects in the conveying of Lands
from Matthew Beard to Stephen Wright and from Stephen
Wright to Samuel Chambers of Ann Arundel County Gent,
was read the first and second Time by especial Order and
Ordered to be thus indorsed Viz.

By the House of Delegates
May the 7th 1715

Read the first and second Time by especial Order and will
pass.
Signed p Order Thos Macnemara Cl. Ho. Del.

The same is sent up to the Honble Council by Capt. Mari-
arte & Mr Joseph Hill
They return and say they delivered the same.
The Petition of Ezekiel Parr, Prisoner in Cecil County Goal
for Debt and the Petition of Peter Sewal Prisoner in Calvert
County Goal for Debt being read and the Question being put
whether Leave shall be given to bring in a Bill as prayed,
Resolved That Leave be given to bring in a Bill for their
Relief and Discharge from their Debts and Imprisonments as
in the Petitions prayed and the Committee of Laws is to
prepare the same.
Col^o Ward from the Conference appointed on Yesterday
delivers Mr Speaker the following Report Viz.

At a Conference between the Members appointed by the
Honble his Majesty's Council and the Members of the House
of Delegates appointed by their House held at his Excellency's
House in the City of Annapolis the 6th Day of May in the first
Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King George of
Great Britain &ca Annoq Dom. 1715 to consider how to
advance the Staple of this Province by having all Tobaccoes
pack'd and strip'd more early in the year. Present of his
Majesty's Honble Council, The Honble Col^o William Coursey,
Col^o Samuel Young, Col^o Thomas Addison, L^t Col^o Tilghman.
Of the House of Delegates Col^o Matthew Tilghman Ward,
Capt. Thomas Trueman Greenfield, Capt. St. Ledger Codd,
Mr Joseph Hill, Col^o John Mackall, Mr Joseph Harrison, Mr