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and M^r Wright Entituled a Supplementary Act to the Act for
marking high Ways, thus indorst Viz.

By the Lower House of Assembly October the 28^th 1724

Read the first and second times by especial Order and will
pass
Signed p Order M. Jenifer Cl Lo Ho.

An Engrossed Bill from the Lower House of Assembly by
John Beale Esq^r and M^r Warfield Entituled An Act to enable
John Cheney and Mary his Wife to sell in fee Simple three

hundred Acres part of a Tract of Land called Waterford

notwithstanding the same is specially entailed on the Heirs
of the Body of the said Mary by Benjamin Williams of Ann
Arundel County thus Subscribed Viz.

October the 28^th 1724
Read and Assented to by the Lower House of Assembly &
Sign'd p order M. Jenifer Cl Lo. Ho.

Which Bill being read is also Assented to by this House
Adjourned till Thursday morning.

Thursday October the 29^th 1724
Present as yesterday
M^r Kennard and M^r Dun introduce Ebenezer Blakiston
a member Elected to serve for Kent County in the Room of
M^r Samuel Watkins deceased in Order to see his qualifica-
tion who took the several Oaths appointed by Law and Sub-
scribed the Oath of Abjuration and the Test and withdrew
Read the Message of Yesterday by Captain Mariarte and
Captain Hudson and the following answer prepared thereto

U. H. J.

By the Upper House of Assembly October the 29^th 1724
Gentlemen.
We have read and considered your Message of Yesterday
by Captain Mariarte and Captain Hudson relating to the
Bill relieving the Inhabitants of this Province from some
difficulties they may lie under in paying their Levies Officers
fees and other Country Tobacco debts this Year and being
as earnestly desirous as your House can be to do something
to Answer the end proposed in that Bill, We therefore are
willing to wave our first, fourth, Sixth & Seventh Objections
to the Passing of it in our former Message relating thereto

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