122 Assembly Proceedings, October 3-November 2, 1728.

U. H. J.

of Annapolis have Liberty to print the same and for whose Encour-
agement you have thought proper to allow him one hundred pounds
of Tobacco p diem we therefore desire to know whether the said
is to be defrayed at the Expence of the Country without our Con-
currence
Signed p Order Geo Plater Cl Up Ho.

A Bill from the Lower House by James Holliday Esq^r and M^r
Courts Entituled An Act to Encourage the Destroying of Wolves
Crows and Squirrels thus Endors'd

By the Lower House of Assembly October the 21^st 1728
Read the first and second time by an especial Order & will pass.
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl lo. Ho.

Read the first time in this House and ordered a Second reading
to morrow.
A Bill from the Lower House by M^r Waughop and M^r Key En-
tituled
An Act for the laying out Land and erecting a Town in Saint
Marys County thus endorsed viz.

By the Lower House of Assembly October the 19^th 1728

Read the first time and Ordered to lie on the Table.
Signed p order M Macnemara Cl lo Ho.

By the Lower House of Assembly October the 2 I^st 1728

Read and will pass.
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl Lo. Ho.

Read the first time in this House and Ordered to lie on the Table
The following Message is prepared and sent to the Lower House
by John Hall Esq^r viz.

By the Upper House of Assembly October the 21^st 1728
Gentlemen
On reading your Message of this day by James Holliday Esq^r
and M^r Robins relating to your Allowances wherein you propose
An Abatement of ours we take leave to Observe that for some years
past we have been denied any Allowance as a Council of State altho
we conceive we have an Undoubted right thereto by the determina-
tion of both Houses of Assembly and the Concurrence of the Gov-