The Upper House. 159

Eodem die Post Merediem
This house met again according to Adjournment

Present as in the morning

Mess^rs Smith and Hynson from the Lower house attend with
M^r Wilson one of the members elected for Kent County in order to
see him qualified who takes the Oaths to the Government appointed
to be taken by Act of Assembly and Subscribes the Abjuration and
Test and then withdrew
Read the Petition of the Church Wardens and Vestrymen of Saint
Johns Parish in Baltimore County praying that a Bill may be brought
to raise an Assessment for three Years on the taxable Inhabitants of
the said Parish for building a Parsonage House on the Glebe Land
of the said Parish Recommended to the Consideration of the Lower
house of Assembly
Read the Petition of several of the Inhabitants about the head of
Potapsco River in Ann Arundell County praying that a Bill may be
brought in to Revive the Act of Assembly made at a Session of
Assembly in the Year 1733 Intituled an Act for erecting a Town at
& about the Landing Called th.e Elk Ridge Landing near the head of
Potapsco River in Ann Arundell County and to Give directions for
the Effectual Execution thereof Referred to the Consideration of the
Lower house of Assembly the two aforegoing Petitions sent by
Col^o Hammond

U. H. J.
No. 33

Read the Petition of John Rogers of Kent County praying Leave
to bring in a Bill enabling Thomas Williams and Mary his wife the
relict of Benjamin Hopkins late of the said County to Convey a tract
of Land called Hangmans Folly lying in Kent County af^d to him the
said Rogers in lieu of a Tract of Land to be Conveyed by the said
Rogers to the said Benjamin Hopkins for which the said Rogers past
his Bond for twenty thousand Pounds of Tobacco to the said Hop-
kins to Convey the same Rejected.
Adjourned till to Morrow Morning nine of the Clock

Vide
Black Book
No. 6
Letter No-44

Tuesday Morning 16^th May 1738.
This house met again according to Adjournment

Present as Yesterday with the Addition of Col^o Gale
A Bill from the Lower house by Mess^rs Goldsborough and Wil-
liamson entituled an Act for the more effectual Publication of the
Laws of this Province and for the Encouragement of Jonas Green of
the City of Annapolis Printer thus endorsed.

May 16
p. 530