1 80 Assembly Proceedings, April 22-May 10, 1718.

U. H. J.

and so Endorsed And sent to the Lower House by Col^o Young
who Returns & says he Delivered it.

The House Adjourns till Afternoon

Post Meridiem
The House meet according to Adjournment
Present as before noon.

p. 112

A Bill for Reliefe of Sundry Poor Prisoners in Ann Ar-
undell County being read is Endorsed as follows

By the Upper House of Assembly
May the 7^th 1718

Read the first time And this House thinks il um easuuable

that Dominick Kenslaugh and Mary Creagh should be Dis-
charged from any Other Debts than those they are now in
Prison for. And we further Observe that it is But Reason-
able the Sherr should have recompence for finding the within
named Prisoners Victualls since their Imprisonment which
we leave to the Lower house to Consider of.
Signed p Order
John Beard Cl Up Ho.

Sent p Coll^o Addison who returns and says he Delivered it.
William Bladen and Robert Ungle Esq^r Two Naval Officers
being called in his Excy Asks them whether they oblidge the
Masters of Ships or Vessells to Take any Certain number of
Permitts. They Answer they do not. But make out and
Charge for as many as the Masters of Ships and Vessells
require of them and no more.

p. 113

M^r Adam Bell of S^t Mary's County who acted for M^r
Thomas Macnemara as Naval Officer of Petuxent having
been sent for by the Serjeant at Armes, to appear to answer
his Contempt for departing out of Town when he was Or-
dered to attend to answer the Complaint made by Capt Pul-
sifer of Injustice done him by M^r Macnemara in his Account
on his Clearance &c. the said M^r Bell Appears.
His Excy acquaints him of the Injustice done to Cap^t
Pulsifer in Charging Exorbitant Fees in that Account, And
that he has Unjustly taken from him the 20 p C^t on his Liquors
which the Law Allows him

Ordered That the said M^r Adam Bell Pay unto M^r George
Valentine Serjeant at Armes the Sume of forty shillings Curr^t
mony adjudged to him by this House for his Fees for fetching