The Lower House. 611

Col^o Hammond Appears in the House.
The Petition of George Robins of Talbot County Gent
praying Leave to bring in a Bill to Confirm a Deed of Bargain
of Sale of a Tract of Land Called Wallnutt Ridge lying in
Queen Ann's County Containing Six hundred Acres of Land
was read and Leave given to bring in a Bill to Supply the
Defects in not recording and Acknowledging the Deed from
Job Evans to Robert Smith Esq^r w^ch was so Endorst.
Benjamin Tasker Esq^r from the Upper House Delivers M^r
Speaker The Bill for the Ease of the Inhabitants in Examin-
ing Evidences relating to the Bounds of Lands &c thus En-
dorst Viz.

By the Upper House of Assembly Septem^r 27^th 1723.

This Bill being read will pass with the following Amend-
ments Viz.
i. Not being Any Ways related to the Person or Persons
Concerned nor Any way Interested in the Land.

2. That where Any Persons Concerned live Out of the
County they have at least forty Days Notice in the Parish
where they live, whether it be on that Side the Bay where
the land lies or not.
3. That the Form of the Bond be Inserted in the body of
the Act.
4. That the same Allowances be made to the Comissioners
and Evidences as in the County Courts.
Sign'd p Order Samuel Skippon Cl. Up: Ho :

With which this House Concurs and thereupon the Bill is
Comitted for Amendment.
The Bill to Prevent the great Evil Occasioned by the Im-
portation of Convicts &c brought Down from the Comittee
of Laws Amended, Was read with the Amendments, and past
for Engrossing.
Col^o Holland from the Upper House Delivers M^r Speaker
the Representation of the Rector Vestry and Church Wardens

L. H. J.

of S^t Pauls Parish in Queen Ann's County thus Endorst.

By the Upper house of Assembly
September the 27^th 1723.
This Petition has been read and is recommended to the Con-
sideration of the lower house of Assembly
Signed p Order Sam^l Skippon Cl. Up. Ho.

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