44 Assembly Proceedings, May 21-June 16, 1730.

U. H. J.

By the Lower House of Assembly 11^th June 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 & Ordered to lye on the Table.
The Engrossed 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 and to prevent Cropping
Cutting and Defacing Tobacco taken on Board Ships or Vessels
upon Freight, and for laying Impositions on Tobacco p the Hogs-
head for the Support of Government and for Encourageing Settle-
ments in this Province by Ascertaining the manner of. paying His
Lordships Alienation fines and Quit Rents for the Term therein

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proposed, And for taking off the Three pence p Hogshead formerly
raised for the Publick charge being Read is Ordered to be thus
Subscribed
11th June 1730 .

Read and Assented to by the Upper House of Assembly
Signed p Order John Ross Cl. Up. Ho.

The Paper Bill so Endorsed is sent to the Lower House by Philip
Lee Esq^r
Read the second time the Bill Entituled An Act for the Relief of
Thomas Worsley Benjamin Freeman John Vines John Cornelius
Thomas Howard Thomas Jacks John Nicholson & James M^clntosh
Prisoners in Ann Arrundell County Goal Thomas Palmer A Lan-
guishing Prisoner in the Goal of the City of Annapolis W^m Gray
Thomas Davis John Smith and Anthony Oneallis Languishing Pris-
oners in Prince Georges Co^ty Goal and John Libbie and Alice Macklin
Prisoners in Talbot County Goal and Ordered to be thus Endorsed

By the Upper House of Assembly 11^th June 1730

Read the second time and will Pass there being inserted after the
word Effects in the 8^th line of 9^th Page the Words foll: And if the
said Prisoners Effects shall not be sufficient to pay and Satisfie the
Sheriff his Imprisonment fees that then each respective Prisoner
shall after His or Her Releasement out of Prison be lyable to Pay
and Satisfie unto the Sheriff the Residue of His Imprisonment fees.
Provided that the said Sheriff shall not Prosecute or Imprison such
Prisoner within Two Years after his Releasement
Signed p Order John Ross Cl, Up. Ho.

Sent to the Lower House by Coll^o Ward
A Message from the Lower House by M^r Harris and M^r Hanson