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By the Lower House of Assembly 25 May 1739

Read the second time and will pass
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl Lo H.

The Other Entituled an Act reviving an Act Entituled a Supple-
mentary Act to the Act Entituled an Act laying an Imposition on
Negroes and on several sorts of Liquors imported, and also on Irish
Servants to prevent the importing too great a Number of Irish
Papists into this Province thus Endorsed

By the Lower House of Assembly 17 May 1739
Read the first time & Ordered to lye on the Table
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl Lo H.

By the Lower House of Assembly 25 May 1739
Read the second time and will pass
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl Lo H.

Both which Bills were Read the first time in this House & Ordered
to lye on the Table
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 Hopkins to convey the same; Rejected
Adjourned till to Morrow Morning Nine of the Clock

U. H. J

No. 734

Saturday Morning 26 May 1739
This House met again according to Adjournment
Present as yesterday

Read the Petition of William Biggs a languishing Prisoner in
S^t Mary's County praying an Act for his Relief; Referred to the
Consideration of the Lower House of Assembly & sent by Benja-
min Tasker Esq^r
A Bill from the Lower House by Mess^rs Denton and Gassaway
Entituled An Act for the more speedy and effectual Publication of
the Laws of this Province & for the Encouragement of Jonas Green
of the City of Annapolis Printer thus Endorsed

May 26
p. 32