26 Assembly Proceedings, October 6-November 4, 1724.

U. H. J.

Sent to t-he Lower House by Col^o Ward.
Two Engrossed Bills from the Lower House by M^r Walter
Smith and M^r Hudson viz.
An Act to cutt off the Entail of a certain Tract of Land
called Billingsleys Point and to Enable John Jordan to make
Sale of the same
An Act Investing an Estate of Inheritance in fee Simple
of a Tract of Land called little Bohemia or Bohemia middle
Neck in Ephraim Augustine Herman of Cecil County Gent
and his heirs forever and to cutt off the Entail thereof and
to make Good and Valid any Sale thereof to be made by the
said Herman or his Heirs aforesaid severally thus Subscribed
Viz.
October the 21^st 1724.
Read and Assented to by the Lower House of Assembly &
Sign'd p Order M. Jenifer Cl Lo. Ho.

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Which Bills being read are likewise Assented to by this
House
The petition of Patrick Creagh praying leave to bring in a
Bill to invest him and his Heirs forever in a right of Inheri-
tance in fee Simple in a Swampy Peice of Ground Originally
designed for a Custom House lying between Governor
Nicholsons Lott and the Lott of Benjamin Tasker Esq^r
to improve the same and to Build a Wharf thereon for the
Benefit of the publick was read and thus endorsed,

By the Upper House of Assembly October 21^st 1724

Read and Referred to the Consideration of the Lower
House of Assembly
Signed p Order Sam^l Skippon Cl Up Ho.

Adjourned till morning

Thursday October the 22^d 1724
Present the same as Yesterday
Read the Message of the 20^th Instant by M^r Tyler and
three others & the following answer prepared thereto.

By the Upper House of Assembly October 22^d 1724
Gentlemen.
In the Close of your Message of the10^th Instant by Col^o
Mackall and five others you recommend such draught of an