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they being related to persons Interested in the said Towne, And
therefore to end all disputes Concerning the Commissioners named
in the bill or proposed by your Honours, We propose that John
Stoddert & Robert Pottinger persons skilled in Surveying & no way
Interested or Related to any that is, be Appointed in the Room of M^r
Gant & M^r Sprigg; one penny Current is the rent reserved for every
Lott in all other Town's lately laid out, And we cannot conceive any
reason for making a Difference in this Instance; We Agree to
changing the name to Maryborough.
There never was yet any such Appeal as your Honours propose
from the Determination of the Commissioners, and we conceive that
such Appeal would Discourage People from taking up Lotts, for fear
of Involving themselves in Controversies which would Cost them
more than the value of the Lotts, And would likewise Increase the
County charge without any necessity that we conceive, And there-
fore we desire your Honours will pass the bill as it is, only puting M^r
Stoddert & M^r Pottinger Commissioners in the room of M^r Gant
and M^r Sprigg and Altering the name to Maryborough
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl. Lo. Ho.

A Bill from the lower House by M^r Beale and M^r Samuel Hanson
Entituled an Act for easing the Inhabitants of this Province who are
Owners of Vessells from some Difficulties they are put to by an
Act Entituled a Supplementary Act to the Act Entituled an Act for
laying an Imposition on Negroes & Severall sorts of Liquors Im-
ported & alsoe on Irish Servants to prevent the Importing too great
a Number of Irish Papists into this Province thus Endorsed.

U. H. J.

By the lower House of Assembly August 31^st 1731
Read the first time & ordered to lye on the Table
Signed p Order M. Macnemara Cl. Lo. Ho.

By the lower House of Assembly 3^d September 1731
Read the Second time and will pass
Signed p Order M. Macnemara Cl. Lo. Ho.

The following Message being prepared is sent to the lower House
by Benjamin Tasker Esq^r with the bill for laying the Towne of Marl-
borough a New

By the Upper House of Assembly 3^d September 1731
Gentlemen,
In Answer to your Message of this day by M^r Smith and M^r Courts
this House is willing that the Commissioners named by your House
in the bill for laying out the Towne of Marlborough a New shall

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