414 Assembly Proceedings, July 11-August 8, 1732.

U. H. J.

By the Lower house of Assembly I^st August 1732

Read the second time and will pass
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl. Lo. Ho.

Read the first time in this house & ordered to lye on the Table
Read the second time the bill Entituled an Act to Ascertain the
gauge & Tare of Tob^o hh^ds to prevent cuting & defacing Tob^o taken
on board Ships or Vessells upon Freight to prevent false packing of
Tob^o & making seconds ordered to be thus Endorsed.

By the Upper house of Assembly I^st Aug^t 1732
Read the second time and will pass
Signed p order John Ross Cl. Up. Ho.

Sent by Philip Lee Esq^r
A Bill from the lower house by M^r Wright & M^r Taylor Entituled
an Act for Erecting a Town at the Bridge near the head of great
Choptank River in Dorchester & Queen Ann's Countys, thus En-
dorsed

By the lower house of Assembly August I^st 1732
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 & ordered to Lye on the Table.
Read the Second time the bill Entituled an Act for laying out the
Town a New called Marlborough Town in Prince Georges County
and ordered to be thus Endorsed.

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By the Upper House of Assembly I^st August 1732

Read the second time & will pass with the following Amendm^ts
that thro the whole bill, instead of the words Original Proprietors,
put, present Proprietors, and in 6^th line of 5th page between the words,
Ensuing, and and, insert the following words, having a special
regard in the Valuation of the said Lotts to the Right of such Pro-
prietor or Prop^rs of such part of the said Town as hath formerly
reverted to the original Prop^r According to the former Act of
Assembly for laying out the said Town, and by the said Original
Prop^r sold for a Valuable Consideration to the present possessors
thereof, and in 5th line of 6th page the word, Tobacco, to be left out,
and at the end of 6^th page the following Clause to be Added;
Provided also and be it Enacted by the Authority af^d that any person
or persons that shall take up any Lott or Lotts within the Town af^d
after it is so surveyed & laid out as af^d shall & is hereby obliged to