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and Hammond to prepare an Address to the Right Honourable the
Lord Proprietary conformable to the Report of the Conferees in
Relation to the Advancement of the Credit of the Paper Currency
Signed p Order John Ross Cl Up Ho.

A Bill from the Lower house by M^rs Belt and Jordan Entituled
an Act for the Relief of Isaac Tunney a languishing Prisoner in
Talbot County Goal William Pratt in the same Goal Richard
Standforth in Charles County Goal and Samuel Steel in Queen Anns
County Goal thus Endorsed

By the Lower house of Assembly 6 April 1736
Read the first and second time by Especial Order & 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 second time the Bill Entituled an Act ascertaining the
Gauge of Tobacco hogsheads and to prevent cutting croping and de-
facing Tobacco taken on board Ships and Vessels upon freight and to
prevent making seconds; passed with the following Amendm^ts in
the last Line of the first Page instead of the Words, the last Day
of August, put, the first Day of October, and the Words; One
Moiety thereof to the Use of the Lord Proprietary and the Other
Moiety; in the 3^d Page to be left out, in Page 7^th the Words; One
Moiety thereof to the Use of the Lord Proprietary and the Othei
Moiety; to be left out the Proviso in the 8^th Page to be omitted, in

U. H. J,

10^h Line of 9^th Page the Words, the End of this present Sessior
of Assembly, to be left out and the following Words inserted, after
the first Day of October next; in 12^th Line of 9^th Page, the Words
or Vessel, to be left out and in the same Line and Page, the Word
and, to be inserted, instead of, or, and the Continuance of the Act to
be for three Years instead of One; and sent by Philip Lee Esq^r
Adjourned till to Morrow Morning nine of the Clock

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Wednesday Morning 7 April 1736
This house met again according to Adjournment
Present as Yesterday
Two Engrossed Bills from the Lower house by M^rs Belt & Stod-
dert One Entituled an Act for the Payment of a Sum of money to
Andrew Ramsay Henry Maccaul & William Gordon of Glasgow
in the Kingdom of Great Britain Merchants, the Other Entituled an
Act for the further Assesment of so much money on the taxable
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