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By the Lower House of Assembly June the 5^th 1730.
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 the Bill Entituled an Act for
Improving the Staple of Tobacco and for continuing part of An
Act Ascertaining the Gauge and Tare of Tobacco Hogsheads &c
and Ordered to lye on the Table.
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

V. H. J,

A Bill from the Lower House by Coll^o Greenfield and Twenty three
more Entituled An Act for Ascertain^g the form of the Oath of Judge
or Justice thus Endorsed

By the Lower House of Assembly June the 5^th 1730
Read the first & Second time by an Especial Order & will Pass.
Signed p Order M: Macnemara Cl. Lo. Ho.

Read the Petition of Richard Bennett Esq^r of Queen Anns County
and referred to the Consideration of the Lower House of Assembly.
Sent to the Lower House by Philip Lee Esq^r
Read the Bill Entituled An Act to Confirm Two Deeds of Sale
the One from George Oldfeild & Petronella his Wife and the other
from Richard Carr Son and Heir at Law to a Certain John Carr
of Cecil County Dece'd to Casparus Augustine Herman and Ordered
to be thus Endorsed

By the Upper House of Assembly 5^th June 1730.
Read the first & Second time by an Especial Order & will Pass.
Signed p Order John Ross Cl. Up. Ho.

Sent to the Lower House by Benjamin Tasker Esq^r
A Message from the Lower House by M^r King and three more

By the Lower House of Assembly June the 5^th 1730.
May it please Your Honours.
The people of Pensilvania having Obtained liberty to Import Salt
from Europe into that Province and it appearing by the Votes of the
House of Commons of the 9^th of April last that a Bill past there to
grant the like liberty to the people of New York This House con-

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