324 Assembly Proceedings, March 19, 1735/6-April 10, 1736.

U. H. J.

By the Lower house of Assembly 26 March 1736
Read the first Time & ordered to lye on the table
Signed p Order M Macnemara Ct. Lo. Ho.

By the Lower house of Assembly 27 March 1736
Read the second time & will pass
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl Lo Ho

Read the first time in this house & Ordered to lye on the table
Read the Petition of Several the Inhabitants of Prince Georges
County praying that a Bill may be brought in to cause the Pro-
prietors of Sixty Acres of Land at the head of Piscattaway Creek
in the said County to sell the said Land in Order to be laid out for
a town called Piscattaway Town; referred to the Consideration of
next Session of Assembly and ordered that the Petit^rs give Notice
to the Proprietors of the lands of this their Application
Read the Petition of Gideon Pearce and Others Inhabitants and
freeholders of Kent County praying a Bill may be brought in to lay
out Eighty Acres of Land, part of a Tract of Land called Tole-
chester on Sassafras River in the Possession of the said Pearce, into

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a town and that the town may be called George Town; Referred to
the Consideration of the Lower house of Assembly, and sent by
George Plater Esq^r
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
Adjourned 'till Monday Morning nine of the Clock

March 29

Monday Morning 29 March 1736
This house met again according to Adjournment
Present
John Hall Esq^r George Plater Esq^r
The Honble Col M: Tilghman Ward Edmund Jenings Esq^r
Michael Howard Esq^r Col Hammond
The Returns of the several Justices of the Counties in Relation to
the State of the Records of their County Courts being read, Ordered
that they be sent to the Lower house with the following Message
by Michael Howard Esq^r