The Lower House. 465

Friday at Two of the Clock in the Afternoon,
The House met according to Adjournment. The Members Called

and all Present as in the Morning.
The Bill to Prevent Bribery and Corruption in the Election of
Delegates to serve in Assembly Ordered to be Amended and is Ac-
cordingly Amended and read the second time and Will not pass.
The Question was put Whether a bill be brought in to prevent
Bribery and Corruption in the Election of Members to serve in As-
sembly which past in the Negative.

For bringing in the bill

M^r Hopewell M^r Allen M^r George
M^r Blackistone M^r Goldsborough M^r Wood
M^r Dulany M^r Needles M^r Hamilton
M^r Smith M^r Benson M^r Cumming
M^r Skinner M^r Hooper M^r Wright
Coll^o Gale M^r Taylor M^r Hemsley
M^r Dashiel M^r Woolford
M^r Caldwell M^r Herman

Against bringing in the bill

M^r Waughop M^r Warfield M^r Scott
M^r Read M^r Middleton M^r Sheredine
M^r Jordan M^r Hanson M^r Magruder
M^r Wilson M^r Hawkins M^r Sprigg
M^r Howard M^r Edmundson Coll^o Belt
M^r Hall M^r Brannock M^r Clayton
M^r Beale Coll^o Ward M^r Elliott
M^r Hammond M^r Mathew

An Engrost Bill for the Releif of Ann Osborn of S^t Marys County
read and Assented to and sent to the Upper House by Capⁿ Thomas
Waughop and Cap" Richard Hopewell Who return and Acquaint M^r
Speaker they Delivered the same.
An Engrost Bill to Prohibit raising Swine Sheep and Geese in
the Town of Chester in Kent County read and Assented to and
sent to the Upper House by M^r George Willson and M^r Christopher
Hall, Who return and say they Delivered the same.

Agreed by the House that a Bill be brought in for Limitation of
Officers fees.

Benjamin Tasker Esq^r from the Upper House Delivers M^r Speaker
the Bill for Erecting a Town on the south side of Chester River in
Queen Anns County for laying in Lotts Sixty Acres of Land at the
Mouth of the south East Branch on the south Side thereof on a Point

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L. H. J.