Read the first Time in this house & Ordered to lye on the Table
Read a second time the bill against Engrossers and Regrators &
Ordered to be thus Endorsed,
By the Upper house of Assembly Ist August 1729
Read a second Time & will pass with the foil Amendments, The
Word, That, after Persons in the 7th Line of the first Side be left
out, and in 8th Line of the same side, instead of the Word, of be-
tween Possession & any, be inserted the Word from; & in the same
Line & Side, the Words for his or their LTse, be left out; & in 10th
Line of the same Side, between the Words Servants & and, be in-
serted, or Provisions or Grain of any kind whatsoever, Butchers,
or Persons selling meat at the shambles excepted; & in the 15th &
16th Lines of the same Side, the Words, or within the Time afd shall
transport out of this Province the sd Goods, Merchandizes, or Ser-
vants be left out
Signed p Order John Ross Cl Up Ho.
Sent to the Lower house by Benjamin Tasker Esqr
A Bill from the Lower house by Mr Matthews & Mr Scott Enti-
tuled an Act for the Relief of Christopher Gardiner a languishing
Prisoner in Baltemore County Goal thus Endorsed
By the Lower house of Assembly Ist August 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
A Message from the Lower house by Mr Hanson and Mr Stough-
ton with the Bill Entituled an Addl & supplementary Act to the
sevl Acts for the Administration of Justice in Testamentary Affairs
By the lower house of Assembly Ist August 1729
May it please your Honours
In answer to your Message of this Day by Coll Ward, we take
Leave to acquaint your Honours, that whatever notions you may
have of the Constant Practise of Parliament, or whether you are
right or wrong in your Conjecture concerning it, Your Honours
are certainly mistaken in imagining that this House had agreed to
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