The Upper House. 519

Tuesday Ocf the 8^th 1723

Met according to Adjournment
Present

U. H. J.

His Honour the Governour

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The
honble

fCol^o Sam^l Young
CoP Tho^s Addison
| Phile: Lloyd Esq^r
[Col^o Rich^d Til^hman

Col^oM. Tilgh: Ward'
James Bowles Esq^r
John Rousby Esq^r
Benj. Tasker Esq^r

1 Member:
of the
Upper
House

A Message prepared yesterday in Answer to a Message
from the Lower House the same day by M^r Oldham and M^r
Bozman was sent to the Lower House by Esq^r Bowles
Then the House Ordered the Bill for laying an Im-
position on Pork, Pitch, and Tarr in Lieu of the Duty on Furrs
to be read and the following Endorsement made thereon viz.

By the Upper House of Assembly Oct^r the 8^th 1723
This Bill will pass with the following amendments (Viz)
By the Rector and Visitors of the Free School according
to the Directions of an Act of Assembly Relating to Free
Schools made at a Session of Assembly begun and held at
Annapolis in October 1695 intituled to the Kings most Ex-
cellent Majesty &c.
Sign'd p Order Sam^l Skippon Cl. Up Ho.

And the Bill so Endors'd is sent to the Lower House by
Esq^r Rousby
A Bill from the Lower House by M^r Walter Smith and
M^r W^m Young intituled an Act for "the Relief of W^m Jarvis
and W^m Griffin Languishing Prisoners in Calvert County
thus endors'd (Viz.)

By the Lower House of Assembly October the 8^th 1723
Read the first and second Times by especial Order and will
Pass
Sign'd p Order M. Jenifer Cl Lo. Ho.

Ordered that the Bill be read and the Bill was read & thus
endorsed viz.

By the Upper House of Assembly Oct^r the 8^th 1723

Read and will pass.
Sign'd p order Sam^l Skippon Cl Up. Ho.

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