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The House meets according to Adjournment
Yesterdays proceedings are Read.
A Bill to Encourage the Takers up of Runaway Negroes
&c: was Read the first time and ordered a Second Reading
to Morrow.
The following Message prepared viz :
By the Lower House of Assembly
Octor the 22d 1725
May it please Your Honours.
This House taking Notice that it does not any ways appear
to them, whether Your Honours have Assented to the En-
grost Bill to prevent Severall Irregularities Complained of
by the People Called Quakers, nor to the Engrost Bill to Con-
firm an Estate in fee Simple to such persons as already have,
or hereafter shall purchase any the Lands Lying in the New
Town &ca and to the Supplementary Engrost Bill, to the Act
Empowering Trustees to sell the Lands Late of Wm Harriss
of Calvert County deceased &ca or not we therefore desire
Your Honours would be pleas'd to send us down the En-
grost Bills that Your Honours Assent may appear to this
House, in the same Manner our assent appears to Your
Honours according to the Ancient practice of the Legislature
of this province, which has never been Interrupted till very
Lately, and which, as the most Parliamentary Course by
which the priviledge of this House is best secured we pray
may be Restored.
Signed p order Mich: Jenifer Cl Lo: Ho :
Which was sent to the Upper house by Capt Rider and Mr
Goldsborough. They Return and say they delivered it.
An Engrost Bill to invest the Vestry of great Choptank
Parish in Dorchester County with an Estate in fee Simple,
to the Lands therein mentioned, was Read and assented to,
and was so Endorst and Sent to the Upper House by Capt
Rider, and Capt Hooper.
They Return and say they delivered it.
Collo Holland from the Upper House delivers Mr Speaker
a Letter from Collo Bradford to his Honour the Governour
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