The Lower House. 393

The said Bill Passed Sent to the Upper House by M^r Hemsley and
M^r Trippe
The House Adjourns

Post Merediem.
The house met according to Adjournment &c.
Phil Lee Esq^r from the Upper House Delivers the Petition of
William Pratt a Languishing Prisoner in Talbot County referred
here.
Coll Ward from the Upper House Delivers the Paper Bill Revive-
ing and Continueing an Act of Assembly of this Province Entituled
an Act for the Better Relief of poore Debtors the Paper Bill En-
tituled a Supplementary Act to the Act Entituled an Act to En-
courage Adventurers In Iron Works, The Paper Bill Entituled
Relateing to the Placeing and building a prison In Somerset County,
The Paper Bill Entituled an Act to Adjourn the Court of Assize
&c, The paper Bill Entituled an Act to Continue an Act, for Raiseing
a Duty of three Pence p Hogshead &c, The paper Bill Entituled an
Act to Cut of the Entail of a Tract of Land Containing One hun-
dred and Thirty Acres Lying in Dorchester County being part of
a Tract of Land Called Gordriges Choice &c^a
The paper Bill Entituled an Act for Erecting a Town on the
North side of Sassafras River &c where. Severally Indorsed the In-
grossed Bill whereof this is the Original is Read and assented to.
Signed p order M Macnemara Cl Lower House.

The Bill Entituled an Act Ascertaining the Gauge of Tobacco
Hogsheads &c. was Read a Second time and passed Sent to the
Upper House by Col Ward and Col Hanson.
The following Message [See page 344.]
Sent to the Upper House by Col Hooper, and M^r Key.
Col Hammond from the Upper House Delivers the Bill for Erect-
ing a Town in Kent County on the South Side of Sassafras River &c.
Indorsed read the second time and will pass the words a Brick Chim-
ney thereto being Incerted after the words feet in the fourth Line of
the Sixth Page which Bill here Read, Amendment agreed to and
passed for Ingrossing
Signed p order M Macnemara. Cl Lower House.

The Petition of William Pratt a Languishing Prisoner in Talbot
County Goal, Read and granted. The house adjourned untill Mon-
day Morning at 9 of the clock.

L. H. J.
Lib. No. 45
p. 629