The Upper Home. 369

Ordered that the Bill be read and the Bill is read and En-
dorsed viz.

By the Upper House of Assembly Oct^r the 30^th 1722
Read and will pass
Signed p order Sam^l Skippon Cl Up Ho.

Which Bill so endorsed (with the original Bill for the Con-
tinuance of Process in Baltemore County Court) is sent to
the Lower House by Col Tilghman and Col Ward who return
and say they delivered them
Ordered that the Supplementary Bill brought up yesterday
by M^r Beale and Cap^t Hooper be read; and the Bill is read
a second Time & the following Endorsment made thereon

By the Upper House of Assembly Oct^r the 30^th 1722

The Commissioners being impowered by a Former Act
to agree with proper persons to repair the Records in Tobacco
only and the Price of Tobacco being uncertain and the Place
of Payment precarious no one would agree with them for
that Commodity but at extravagant Rates, which is the true
Reason that the Records are not yet repaired: Therefore
we propose to your House that a Clause be added in the Bill
impowering the Commissioners to agree with proper Persons
either in Money or Tobacco With which Addition the Bill
will pass
Signed p ord^r Sam^l Skippon Cl Up Ho.

Which Bill so endorsed is sent to the Lower House by Esq^r
Bowles who returns and says he delivered it
A Supplementary Bill ( from the Lower House by M^r Stod-
dert and five others) to the Act intituled an Act for prevent-
ing the making of Trashy Tobacco and for bettering the
Staple of this Province and to the Explanatory Act thereof
thus Endors'd

By the Lower House of Assembly Oct^r the 30^th 1 722

Read the first and second Times by especial order and will
pass
Signed p order M: Jenifer Cl. Lo. Ho.

U.H.J.

Ordered that the Bill be read and the Bill was read and
ordered to lye on the Table for further Consideration.
An Engrossed Bill from the Lower House by Cap^t Hooper

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