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

L. H. J.

M^r Cumming from the Committee of Laws Delivered M^r Speaker
the bill Entituled an Act for raising a Duty of three pence p Hogs-
head on all Tobacco Exported out of this Province for the uses
therein Mentioned. Read the first time and Ordered to Lye on the
Table.

p. 408

The House Adjourns untill two of the Clock in the Afternoon

Tuesday Afternoon,

The House met according to Adjournment, The Members were
Called and all Present as in the Morning.
The Bill Entituled a Supplementary Act to the Act Entituled an
Act for Stay of Execution After the tenth of May, Read the second
time & passed Sent to the Upper House by Coll^o Hanson & M^r Taylor,
They return & say they Delivered the same.
Phillip Lee Esq^r from the Upper House Delivered to M^r Speaker
the bill Entituled an Act to Ascertain the Gauge and Tare of To-
bacco Hogsheads &c^a Indorsed thus,

By the Upper House of Assembly 28^th July 1732.

Read the first time & Ordered to Lye on the Table.
Signed p Order J Ross Cl. Up. Ho.

And thus, [See page 414.]
Which bill was read here and passed for Ingrossing
A Bill Entituled an Act for Erecting a Town at a Bridge near the
head of Great Choptank River in Dorchester and Queen Anns
Countys, Read the first & second time by Especial Order and passed
and sent to the Upper House by M^r Wright and M^r Taylor, They
return and say they Delivered the Same.
A Bill Entituled an Act repealing part of an Act Entituled an Act
for laying an Imposition on Negroes and on Several Sorts of
Liquors Imported and Also on Irish Servants to prevent Importing
too great a Number of Irish Papists into this Province, Read the
first time and Committed for Amendment.
The Question was put that an Additional Duty be laid on Irish
Papists Imported into this Province Resolved in the Affirmative
The Question was put whether the three half pence p Hogshead
to be Applied for the use of the Governour be Continued for three
Years or one year, Resolved it be Continued for one Year

For one Year

M^r Read M^r Caldwell M^r Hamilton
M^r Blackistone M^r Allen M^r Sheredine
M^r Howard M^r Edmundson M^r Magruder