14 Assembly Proceedings, March 13, 1732/3- April 12, 1733.

U. H. J.
Black Book
No. 3
Letter
No. 107
Lib. No. 33
p. 259

p. 260

2^dly That the Colonel Lievtenant Colonel Majors and Captains
have it in their Power to deliver Arms to such Persons as they shall
think proper.
3^dly That a Clause be Added to prevent listing Servants amongst
the Militia; unless upon an Emergency to be judged of by the Field
Officers.
4^thly That the Fees of the Sheriff for Execution in Complyance of
this Act be thirty Pounds of Tobacco beside Imprisonment Fees and
the Clerks Six Pounds of Tobacco for Issueing Execution, and that
the same be levyed on the Body Goods &c of the Offender
5^thly That the Colonel of the Several Counties be Obliged to return
to His Excellency the Governor or Commander in Chief, a List of
such Arms as are lodged in the Several Counties, with the Condition
they are in
6^thly That no Officer be made lyable to pay for any Arms where
the Person intrusted with them shall lose sell or destroy them and
prove insolvent, or run away, or die insolvent,
7^thly That Provision be made that the Arms be all Marked and a
Penalty laid upon any person that shall sell or dispose of any Pub-
lick Arms and likewise upon any Person that shall purchase any
knowing the same to be such,
8^thly That Provision be made that no Member of the Upper House
of Assembly be Obliged to serve in the Militia.
All which is Humbly Submitted to the Consideration of Both
Houses.
Signed p Order Arch^d M'Pherson, Ci.

Adjourned till two of the Clock in the Afternoon

Eodem Die post Meridiem

This House met Again According to Adjournment
Present as in the Morning Except Samuel Ogle Esq^r Col Tilgli-
man Col Ward and Philip Lee Esq^r
A Bill from the Lower House by M^rss Ward and Wood Entituled
an Act for the Erecting a Town on the North Side of Sassafrax
River in Cecil County, for laying in Lotts Thirty Acres of Land on
a Point known by Peningtons Point or Prizing Point thus Endorsed

By the Lower House of Assembly 24^th March 1732

Read the first and second time by an Especial Order and will pass
Signed p Order M Macnemara Ct. Lo. Ho.

Adjourned till Monday Morning Eight of the Clock