400 Assembly Proceedings, July 10-August 8, 1729.

L. H, J.

Major King Appears in the House this Afternoon
The Question being put whether the House should Proceed now
to Consider the Act for Ascertaining the Gauge and Tare of To-
bacco Hogsheads or not Resolved in the Affirmative.
The Question being Put whether the Act for Ascertaining the
Gauge and Tare of Tobacco Hogsheads Should be revived or not
Resolved in the Affirmative.
The Question being Put whether a bill should be Prepared to
Enforce the said Act for the Term of three years or one year only.
Resolved that it be revived for one Year only

p. 19

Coll^o Rider from the Upper House Delivered to M^r Speaker the
Bill Entituled an Act repealing Part of an Act Entituled An Act
against forging and Counterfeiting of foreign Coyns Gold or Silver
made at a Session of Assembly begun and held at the then Town
and Port of Annapolis the Twenty Sixth day of March Anno Dom.
1707 with this following Indorsment Viz.

By the Upper House of Assembly 15^th July 1729

Read the first time and Ordered a Second reading to Morrow
Morning.
Signed p Order Jn^o Ross Cl. Up. Ho.

And with this Indorsment Viz. [The text of the endorsement
is printed at page 317.]
A Bill Entituled an Act for the more Effectual Punishing of
Negroes & other Slaves and for taking away the benefit of Clergy
from Certain offenders was read the first and second time by espe-
cial Order and Passed and sent to the Upper House by Mess^rs
Robert Hanson & W^m Stoughton who return & say they delivered
the same

p. 20

John Hall Esq^r from the Upper House of Assembly delivered to
M^r Speaker the Petition of the Inhabitants of Charles County thus
Indorsed Viz.

By the Upper House of Assembly 16^th July 1729

Read and referred to the Consideration of the Lower House of
Assembly
Signed p Order Jn^o Ross Cl. Up. Ho.

The Petition of the Inhabitants of Charles County was read &
granted according to the Prayer thereof.
The Bill Entituled a Supplementary Act to the Acts for regu-
lating Writs of Error and granting Appeals from and to the Courts
of Common Law within this Province was read the second time by