The Lower House. 105

June the 8^th 1717.
Read and assented to by the Lower House of Assembly And,
Signed p Order Mic: Jenifer Cl: Lo: Ho:

And Sent to the Upper house by M^r Ja^s Lloyd and M^r W^m
Turbutt, Who are desired to Acquaint his Excy that nothing
remains Unfinished before this house of the publick Busness.
They return & say they Delivered the Bill & Message.
Col^o Coursey and Coll Tilghman from the upper House ac-
quainted M^r Speaker that his Excy Comands him and the
whole house to attend him imediately in the Councill Chamber
and withdrew.
Then M^r Speaker with the rest of the House went to the
Upper House to attend his Excy Where his Excy was pleased
to Enact the Severall Engrosed Bills following, being Sever-
ally thus endorst viz:

Read and Assented to by the upper House of Assembly &
Signed p Ord^r John Beard Cl Up Ho:

into Laws by Sealing them with the right honble the Lord
Proprietary's great Scale of this Province and endorsing them
Severally in the manner following viz:

June the 8^th 1717

On the behalf of the right Honble the Lord prop^ry I will
this be a Law. Jo: Hart.

N^o 1. An Engrosed Bill for the adjournm^t of Talbot and
Baltemore County Courts.
2. An engrost Bill for Quieting Differences between the
English and Indians of what Places soever.
3. An engrost Bill for the Punishment of such as shall
Counterfeit his L^pps Scales &c^a
4. An Engrost Bill for building a Court House for Cecill
County
5. An Engrost Bill laying an Addiconall Duty of 20^s Cur-
rant mony p poll on Irish Papists and negroes &c.
6. An engrost Supplementary Bill to the Act relating to
Servants and Slaves.
7 An Engrost Bill Ascertaining the Gauge and Tare of
Tobacco hh^ds &c^a
8 An engrost Bill for regulating Ordinaries.
9. An Engrost Bill for the Publication of Marriages.

L. H. J.