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	Thursday Morning 17th July 1729 This House met again according to Adjournment Present as yesterday Read the Petition of John Hodson secundus of Dorchester County praying Relief in the Recovery of the Rents & fines purchased by him of Mr Snowden, & Ordered to be thus Endorsed By the Upper house of Assembly 17th July 1729 Read & rejected it not appearing to this House but the Petitioner may have his Remedy at Law Signed p Order John Ross Cl Up Ho. An Engrossed Bill from the Lower House by Mr Johnson & Mr Knight Entituled an Act for the Naturalization of Christian Peters of Cecil County a native of Germany thus subscribed 17th July 1729 Read & assented to by the Lower house of Assembly Signed p Ordr M: Macnemara Cl. Lo. Ho. Adjourned till two of the Clock in the Afternoon Eodem Die post Meridiem This House met again according to Adjournment Present as in the Morning Read a second time the Supplementary Act to the Act for regu- lating Writts of Error & granting Appeals from & to the Courts of Comon Law within this Province & Ordered to be thus Endorsed By the Upper House of Assembly 17th July 1729 Read a second Time & will pass with the following Alterations viz. To the Title of the sd Bill the following Words be added And for regulating Appeals- from the Court of Chancery; And in the fourth Line of the third Paragraph of the sd Act instead of the Words; the said Court of Appeals without Regard had to the first in Commission of His Lordships Council in Case he be absent, be inserted, in Case the Governor & the first in Commn of His Lord-	U. H. J. July 17 p. 13
	ships Council be absent from the Court of Appeals, the Senr Coun- cillor then present in Court shall preside & the sd Court shall and between the Words, the, and first, in the 8th & 10th Lines of the third Paragraph be interlined the Words, Governor or, the Words, the Continuance of in the 2d Line of the last Paragraph to be omitted, & in the third Line of the last Paragraph instead of the Words, be under the same Limitation, the following Words be inserted, shall	p. 14