374 Assembly Proceedings, October 6-November 6, 1725.

L. H. J.

Arraigned. All which is by this Comittee humbly Recom-
mended to the Consideration of both Houses of Assembly.
Signed p Order Will^m Ghiselin Cl. Com.

The following Engrost Bills were Read and Assented to
viz:
The Bill to Encourage the takers up of Runaway Slaves
The Bill relieving the Inhabitants from some Aggriev-
ances.

The Bill Declaring probats and Acknowledgments taken in
Annapolis to be good.
The Bill for Dividing Great Choptank Parish.
Which was sent to the upper House by Coll^o Belt and Cap^t
Gordon, with the following Message Viz :

By the Lower House of Assembly

Octo^r the 28^th 1725
May it please Your Honours.
We herewith send your Honours the Engrost Bills with our
Assent Subscribed in Confidence of Your Returning them
and all others in like Case, time Enough to this House, before
the Conclusion of this or any other Sessions, that this House
may be possess'd of them, and see the Seals affixt to them
all before any one Bill in this or any other Sessions have the
Governours Fiat to it. This we take to be the Amount of Your
Proposalls in the Case and we rely on it accordingly always
Saving to this House its due and accustomed Priviledges.
Signed p Order Mich: Jenifer Cl. Lo. Ho :

They Return and Say they delivered them
The House adjourns till to morrow Morning Nine of the
Clock

Friday Octo^r the 29^th 1725
The House meets according to Adjournment
Yesterday's proceedings are Read.
M^r Tho^s Gant a member Returned to Serve for Prince
George's County appears in the House, being absent hitherto
thro: Indisposition. Ordered that M^r Crabb and Coll^o Belt
go Lo the Upper House to see him qualified

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They Return and Say they see him Qualified. Thereupon
he took his place
The Petition of the Visitors for the Publick School in Kent
County was Read and the Question being put whether the