394 Assembly Proceedings, October 9-November 3, 1722.

U. H. J.

Then the Message relating to the Gate-Keeper was read
and the following answer prepared thereto Viz.

By the Upper House of Assembly Nov. the 3^d 1722

Gentlemen. Upon reading your Message relating to
Richard Young Gate-Keeper we recommend to your Consider-
ation his Lameness and weakness this Sessions and we desire
that you would remit his Offence this Time, and make a fur-
ther Tryal of him he conforming himself to the Rules of Your
House and giving security for the Due execution of his Office,
in Attending the Gate and using the Utmost Endeavours to
secure the Horses belonging to the Burghesses and others.
Signed p order Sam^l Skippon Cl Up ho.

An Engrossed Bill from the Lower House by M^r King and
M^r Oldham to enable Thomas Dent of Charles County and
Anne his Wife to sell part of a Tract of Land lying in Prince
George's County call'd Locust Thicket, entailed on the said
Dent's Wife and her Heirs &c^a & for entailing other Lands
in Charles County in Lieu thereof, thus Endorsed Viz

Eodem Die
Read again and past for Engrossing
M:J:

Which Bill being read is assented to by this House and Sub-
scribed thus (Viz)

Novem^r 3^d 1722
Read and Assented to by the Upper House of Assembly and
Signed p Order Sam^l Skippon Cl Up Ho.

The Message relating to Richard Young, with the five
Original Bills is sent to the Lower House by Esq^r Bowles who
returns and says he deliver'd them.
Then the House went upon the Consideration of the Re-
solves made by the Lower House and communicated to this
by The Message of October the 31^st by Col Mackal and five
others and after reading came to the following Resolution
Viz.

Resolved to defer the Consideration of the Resolves Sent
up from the Lower House by Col Mackall and five others
till next Sessions, that M^r Attorny General be consulted
thereon and give his opinion thereon to the House.