280 Assembly Proceedings, August 19-September 6, 1731.

U. H. J.

a Number of Years past as shall be thought proper before the Com-
mittee to be Appointed to lay the publick Levy or such of them as
both Houses shall Agree on, all which is Submitted to the Consider-
ation of both Houses by Your Committee.
Signed p Order Thomas Clarke Cl. Comee

A Message from the lower House by M^r King and M^r Ennals.

By the lower House of Assembly September I^st 1731.

May it Please Yo^r Honours
This House on Reading the Report from the Committee of both
Houses Appointed to Examine the Entries of the Severall Officers
concerning the Exports Approve of the same & have Appointed the
Gentlemen of this House that were of that Committee to joyn any
Members your House shall Appoint as a Committee to prepare an
Address to his Excellency the Governeur in relation to the Subject
matter in the s^d Report.
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl. Lo. Ho.

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Adjourned till to Morrow Morning Eight a Clock.

Sept. 2

Thursday Morning 2^d September 1731

This House met Again According to Adjournment
Present as Yesterday
Read the Second time the bill Entituled an Act for laying out the
Towne a New called Marlborough Towne in Prince Georges County
& for Ascertaining the bounds thereof and Ordered to be thus
Endorsed.

By the Upper House of Assembly 2^d September 1731

Read the second time & will pass with the following Amendments,
This House being informed that M^r Sprigg & M^r Gant have an
Interest in the Towne within mentioned, is desirous they may not
be inserted as Commissioners in the s^d bill, And hath alsoe thought fitt
to nominate Philip Lee Esq^r and M^r Alexander Contee to be Added as
Commissioners and that the name of the Towne be Altered to Mary-
borough, and instead of the words, one penny Current money, in the
last line but one of the Seventh- page put the words, one penny Ster-
ling Yearly, and the following Clause to be added, And forasmuch as
many Improvements are already made in the said Towne of Con-
siderable value which may be affected by the Measures taken by the
said Commissioners in laying out the said Towne much to the preju-
dice of the Proprietors of such Improvements, Be it Therefore