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5. A Supplementary Act to the Act Entituled an Act to Encourage
Adventurers in Iron Works
6. An Act to cut off the Entail of a Tract of Land containing One
hundred & thirty Acres lying in Dorchester County being Part of a
Tract of Land called Goodridges Choice and to Entail in Lieu thereof
a tract of Land called the Hope containing fifty Acres also another
Tract called the Addition to the Hope containing One hundred and
seventeen Acres both lying in the said County of Dorchester.
7. An Act to adjourn the Courts of Assize Nisi prius and Goal
Delivery Provincial Court and to continue the Process and Proceed-
ings in some of the County Courts within this Province and to En-
large the time for taking out Executions severally thus subscribed

3^d April 1736
Read and assented to by the Lower house of Assembly
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl Lo Ho.

Which were severally read and assented to by this House and
ordered to be so subscribed the Paper Bills so Endorsed are sent by
Col Ward
A Bill from the Lower house by M^rs Hemsley & Trippe Entituled
an Act to prevent the false packing of Tobacco and concerning the
Tare of Tobacco hogsheads thus Endorsed

By the Lower house of Assembly 26 March 1736
Read the first time & Ordered to lye on the Table
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl Lo H.

U. H. J.

By the Lower house of Assembly 3^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 & Ordered to lye on the table
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 Petition of William Pratt, Carpenter a languishing Pris-
oner in Talbot County Goal; referred to the Consideration of the
Lower house of Assembly and sent by Philip Lee Esq^r
Read the second time the Bill Entituled an Act for Erecting a
Town in Kent County on the South side of Sassafras River on a
Tract of Land called Tolechester at the Place where the ferry is now

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