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Read the Petition of the Church Wardens & Vestry of S^t Ann's
Parish in Ann Arrundell County & referred to the Consideration of
next Session of Assembly.
An Engrossed bill from the Lower House by M^r Waughop and
M^r Young Entituled An Act for the cutting off the Entail and Invest-
ing an Estate in fee Simple of a Tract of Land called Exeter in
Henry Wharton of St. Marys County Gent and his Wife and to
Entail other Lands lying in S^t Mary's County in Lieu thereof being
read is Ordered to be thus Subscribed
13^th June 1730
Read & 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 Coll^o
Rider.
John Rousby Esq^r from the Committ.ee to Inspect the Records
in the Commissarys & Secretarys Offices makes the Report thereof
as follows.

By the Committee appointed by the Upper and Lower Houses of
Assembly to Inspect the Records in the Commissarys
and Secretarys Office,
13th June 1730.
Your Committee having Inspected the Testamentary proceeding
Books in the Commissarys Office and Examined all the returns
therein with the several Record Books in the said Office from the 6^th
day of February 1721 to the first day of July 1723 do not find that the
several Inventorys mentioned in the Lists Annexed to this Report
are Recorded We do [not] find the Original Inventorys mentioned in
the first List nor any Record of them but only the Return in the Testa-
mentary proceeding Book as aforesaid.
We find on the back of Several Originals mentioned in the second
List an Endorsement of their being Recorded but Your Committee
having perused the Books and Folio's by the said Endorsements
referred to, do not find they are Recorded
Your Committee also find that M^r Vachel Denton was at that time
Register of the Commissarys Office, and that M^r Will^m Beckingham
Wrote in the said Office (being then a Servant to the said Denton) as
appears by his Writing in the Several Books of the said Office, and

U. H. J.

it seems to Your Committee that the Endorsement on Inventorys
said to be Recorded which are not, is the hand Writing of the said
Beckingham

Your Committee do not find any other proceedings missing in the
said Office but the Inventorys as aforesaid.

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