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M^r Key from the Committee of Laws delivers to M^r Speaker a
Bill for the releif of severall Poor Prisoners which being read is
ordered to be thus indorsed (viz.)

By the Lower House of Assembly October 26^th 1728.

Read the first time and ordered to lie on the Table
Signed p Order. M: Macnemara Cl: Lo: Ho :

The Bill Entituled an Act for the emprovement of the Staple of
Tobacco was sent to the Upper House by James Harris Esq^r M^r
Key M^r Crabb, M^r Courts, Coll^o Belt and Edmund Jennings Esq^r
who return and say they delivered the same.
The Bill Entituled a Supplementary Act to the Act for releiving
the Inhabitants of this Province from some Aggreivances in the
Prosecution of Suits at Law was read and Passed for ingrossing.
The Bill Entituled an Act for the Establishment of religious Wor-
ship in this Province being read was ordered to be thus Indorsed
(Viz.)

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By the Lower House of Assembly October 26^th 1728.
Read the Second time and will Pass.
Signed p Order. M. Macnemara Cl. Lo: Ho :

Sent to the Upper House by M^r Crabb and M^r Robins who return
and say they delivered the same.
The Ingrossed bill Entituled an Act to erect a Parish in Ann
Arundell County called Queen Caroline Parish, and the Ingrossed
bill entituled an Act for the Naturalization of William Rayman of
the City of Annapolis were sent to the Upper House by M^r Gordon
and M^r Scott who return and say they delivered the same.
M^r Key from the Committee of Laws delivers to M^r Speaker a
Bill Entituled an Act reviving and Continuing an Act of Assembly
of this Province entituled an Act for the better releif of poor Debtors
which being read was ordered to be thus Indorsed (Viz.)

By the Lower House of Assembly October 26^th 1728.
Read the first and second time by an Especial Order and will Pass.
Signed p Order M. Macnemara Cl. Lo. Ho.

Sent to the Upper House by Captain Ebenezer Blackistone and
M^r Brannock who return and say they delivered the same.
M^r Thompson and M^r Hemsley deliver to M^r Speaker a bill Enti-
tuled an Act for dividing Saint Pauls Parish in Queen Anns County

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