The Upper House. 153

Read the Petition of Rachel Welch Richard Snowden and Rob^t
Welch of Ann Arundell County Executors of the last will and
Testament of John Welch of Ann Arundell County deceased pray-
ing Leave to bring in a Bill empowering them to sell and dispose of
a tract of Land called Richard and John that being the true intent of
the Testator instead of a Tract of land called Snowden and Welch
which was the name of the Tract mentioned in the will of the said
John Welch Rejected

Vide
Black Book
No. 4
Letter No.69

Read the Petition of several Inhabitants of Part of Talbot County
praying a Bill may be brought in to erect a new Parish in said County
as expressed by the Bounds in the said Petition and to divide the
Parishes in the said County after the deaths of the present Incum-
bents in Order to make a sufficient Competency for the Clergyman
of the said intended Parish
Adjourned till three of the Clock in the afternoon

Eodem Die Post Meridiem
This house met again according to Adjournment
Present as in the Morning

A Bill from the Lower house by Mess^rs Moale and Weemes En-
tituled an Act to encourage the making of Linen Cloth within this
Province of Flax or Hemp of the Growth thereof thus endorsed

By the Lower house of Assembly 10 May 1738
Read the first time and Ordered to lye on the Table
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl Lo H.

By the Lower house of Assembly 11 May 1738
Read the second time and will pass.
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl Lo H.

Vide
Black Book
No.fio
Letter No.27

Read the first time in this House and Ordered to lye on the Table.
Read the Petitions of Philip Fynn and Ezekiel Orrick languish^g
Prisoners in Ann Arundell County Goal Peter Hyatt and James
Ranton in Prince Georges County Goal William Gibson and William
Jones in Queen Anns County Goal and of William Bishop in Saint
Marys County Goal Referred to the Consideration of the Lower
house of Assembly and sent by Col^o Hammond
Two Bills from the Lower house by Mess^rs Henry and Ennals
One entituled an act reviving an Act of Assembly Entituled an act
for the Advancement of Justice the other entituled an act reviving
an act of Assembly entituled a Supplementary Act to the Act en-
tituled an Act laying an Imposition on negroes and on several Sorts

p. 523