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Sassafras River on a Tract of Land called Tolechester at the Place
where the ferry is now kept thus Endorsed

By the Lower house of Assembly 1 April 1736
Read the first time & ordered to lye on the table
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl Lo H.

By the Lower House of Assembly 2^d April 1736
Read the second time and will pass
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl Lo H.

Read the first Time in this house and ordered to lye on the Table.

U. H. J.

The following Message is sent by Philip Lee Esq^r

By the Upper House of Assembly 2 April 1736
Gentlemen
This house upon Examination into the Order reported by your
Committee to have been obtained from the Clerks of both houses
by William Rogers for the Payment of fifty pounds, find that such
Order was only signed by the Clerk of Your House, whereas the
Power of disposing Moneys inappropriated is vested in the legisla-
tive Body, for Want of which necessary Authority that Payment
seems to have been made by Mistake, which we doubt not will be
avoided for the future, And as M^r Rogers does not deny the facts
set forth in the Report of your Committee, by his Answer to Your
house, but submits himself to both houses, we hope he will take what
Care he can to give any further Satisfaction that may be required
from him
Signed p Order John Ross Cl Up H.

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

Read the second time the Bill Entituled an Act for the further
Assesment of so much money on the taxable Inhabitants of King
and Queen Parish in S^t Marys and Charles Counties as will build a
new Church in that Part of the Parish which lies in S^t Marys County
and for the repairing of Newport Church in the same Parish, and
to appoint a time for the freeholders to meet in Order to chuse a

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