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Read the first Time in this house & Ordered to lye on the Table
A Bill from the Lower house by M^r Holyday and Coll Ennals
Entituled an Act for the Importation of Gold and Silver into this
Province thus Endorsed

By the Lower house of Assembly 28^th July 1729
Read the first & second Time by an Especial Order & will pass
Signed p Order M: Macnemara Cl. Lo. Ho.

Read the first Time in this house & Ordered to lye on the Table
Read a second time the Bill Entituled an Act for a further Assess-
m^t of forty thousand pounds of Tobacco on the Inhabitants of S^t
Anns parish in Ann Arundel County for repairing the Church in
the City of Annapolis and building a Chappel of Ease in the s^d
Parish &c Ordered to be thus Endorsed

U. H. J.

By the Upper house of Assembly 28^th July 1729

Read a second Time & will pass the Sheriff being allowed five p
Cent without Deduction for collecting the within Quantity of To-
bacco
Signed p Order John Ross Cl. Up Ho.

Sent to the Lower house by John Hall Esq^r
A Bill from the Lower house by M^r Key and M^r Courts Enti-
tuled an Act for dividing the Parishes in S^t Marys and Charles
County's thus Endorsed

By the Lower house of Assembly 28^th July 1729.
Read the first & second Time by an Especial Order and will pass
Signed p Order M: Macnemara Cl Lo. Ho.

Read the first Time in this house and Ordered to lye on the Table
Coll Belt and M^r Magruder Members of the Lower House attend
with M^r Edward Sprigg a Member Elected to serve for Prince
George's County in the Room of Major Perry deceased to see him
Qualified, whereupon the s^d Sprigg takes the Oaths appointed to be
taken by Act of Assembly to the Government, and subscribes the
Oath of Abjuration and Test pursuant to the Directions of the s^d
Act and then withdrew
Adjourned till to Morrow Morning Eight of the Clock

p. 37

Tuesday Morning 29^th July 1729
This house met again according to Adjournment
Present as yesterday

July 29