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County and for Ascertaining the bounds thereof, Which was read
the first time and Ordered to Lye on the Table.
M^r Joshua George Delivered to M^r Speaker a Bill Entituled an
Act to Supply some Defects in a Deed of Bargain & Sale from Ed-
ward Warner late of London in the Kingdom of Great Britain
Deceased to William Husbands late of Cecil County Deceased of
two Tracts of Land Viz. The one Called Stillington and the
other called Chance both lying and being in Cecil County, Which
bill was read the first and Second time by an Especial Order and
passed, And sent to the Upper house by Coll^o Herman and M^r Knight
who return and say they Delivered the same

L. H. J.

The House Adjourns 'till Two of the Clock in the Afternoon

Friday Afternoon August 27^th 1731.

The House met according to Adjournment
The Members were Called and all Present as in the Morning.
Daniel Dulany Esq^r from the Committee Appointed to Inspect the
Condition of the Common Gaol of Annapolis brought in the follow-
ing Report.

By the Committee Appointed to Inspect the Condition of the Common
Gaol of Annapolis August 27^th 1731.

Your Committee having Enquired in the best Manner we could,
into the Condition of the said Gaol, find it to be a building of Stone
about thirty feet Long from out to out, And about twenty feet wide
from out to out Consisting of two Rooms, one below of the whole
length & breadth of the building laid with a Substantial Oak plank
floor and having a fire place but no Window or other Inlet for the
Air on the south Side, or at Either of the Gable Ends but on the
North side are two small Windows and one Door.
The room above hath a fire place, but no Window or other Inlet
for the Air on the North or South sides, but one small Window in
one Gable End and two in the Other, the floor and Ceiling or lining
in Decay.

No conveniency for the Prisoners to Ease themselves but one Spout
or Pipe Above and another below at the Western Gable End of the
building, where there is a pit or hole to receive the Excrements alway
[being] open and very Offensive to the prisoners themselves, the
Neighbours and all that pass thereby.
Your Committee have been well Informed that many People have
Actually died in the said Gaol, of distempers Contracted there, and
several soon after they have been Enlarged have also died of Dis-
tempers which they Contracted likewise in the said Gaol before the
Present Sherriff Came into the Office; And Since his coming in
Six People have Died of Distempers they got during their Im-
prisonment.

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