The Lower House. 437

Whereupon M^r Speaker left the Chair, and he and the rest of the
Members of this House went and Delivered the aforesaid Address
to the Governor in the Conference Chamber.
M^r Speaker and the whole House return M^r Speaker reassumed
the Chair and Report^d to the House that he Delivered the said Ad-
dress to the Governor.

L. H. J.

The Question being Put whether the Message to be Sent with the
Tobacco Bill should be altered or Not. Resolved in the Negative.
The Bill Entituled an Act for raising a Duty of three pence p
Hogshead on all Tobacco &c^a was read and Passed with the Amend-
ments Proposed for Ingrossing
Benjamin Tasker Esq^r from the Upper House delivered to M^r
Speaker the bill Entituled an Act to Ascertain the fees of Attornys
&c^a Indorsed thus

By the Upper House of Assembly I^st August 1729.

Read the first time and Ordered to Lye on the Table.
Signed p Order Jn^o Ross Cl. Up. Ho.

And Indorsed thus.

By the Upper House of Assembly 2^d Aug^t 1729.
Read a Second time & will not Pass.
Signed p Order Jn^o Ross Cl. Up. Ho.

Coll^o Rider from the Upper House Delivered to M^r Speaker a
Bill Entituled an Act reviving and Continuing an Act Entituled an
Act to restrain the ill Practices of Attornys and to Prevent their
taking mony fees and Ascertaining what fees shall be Allowed to the
Practioners in the Law who shall Attend the Circuit Courts made
at a Session of Assembly begun and held at the City of Annapolis
the fifteenth day of March Anno Dom one thousand Seven hundred
& twenty five Indorsed thus

By the Upper House of Assembly 2^d August 1729.

Read the first and Second time by an Especial Order and will
Pass.
Signed p Order Jn^o Ross Cl. Up. Ho.

p. 106

The aforesaid bill being read here the first time the Question was
Put whether the said Bill should have a Second reading this Day or
not. Resolved in the Negative.
M^r Crabb M^r Sprigg and M^r Magruder have leave to go home
untill Monday

p. 107