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

L. H. J.

And thus Viz :

By the Upper House of Assembly October 18^th 1728.
Read the second Time and will Pass.
Signed p^r Order. Geo. Plater Cl. Up: Ho :

A Bill for the Support of the Rector of William and Mary Parish
in Charles County being read was ordered to be Indorsed thus Viz.

By the Lower House of Assembly October 18^th 1728.

Read the first and second Time by an Especiall Order and will
Pass.
Signed p Order. M. Macnemara Cl. Lo. Ho.

Sent to the Upper House by Coll^o Fendall and M^r Courts who
return and Inform the House they Delivered the same.
The Bill Entituled a Supplementary Act to the Act Entituled an
Act relating to Servants and Slaves.

By the Lower house of Assembly October 18^th 1728
Read and Passed for Ingrossing.
Signed p Order M. Macnemara Cl. Lo: Ho :

Coll^o Herman from the Committee of Elections and Priviledges
delivers to M^r Speaker the following report (viz)

By the Committee of Priviledges and Elections October 18^th 1728

p. 62

We of the Committee having inspected and duly examined the
Indentures of James Harris Esq^r M^r Phillip Kennard and M^r George
Willson three of the Members returned to serve this Sessions for
Kent County do find them duly elected. And we having received a
Petition from Sundry the Inhabitants of Kent County complaining
of the undue Election of Captain Ebenezer Blackistone and having
heard the Allegations of both Parties and taken the Depositions of
the Evidences to us Produced relating thereto do find that the Con-
test lay between Captain Ebenezer Blackistone and M^r John Johnson
and that the said Captain Blackistone carried the Election by one
Voice (which if the Sherriff allowed the Votes of Mess^rs William
Nicholson and James Calder two of the Evidences must have been
determined in favour of M^r Johnson. But Your Committee is of
Oppinion that the said M^r James Calder was not Entitled to Vote
at the said Election, And it being a Doubt with Your Committee
whether the said William Nicholson was qualified to Vote, and also