240 Assembly Proceedings, May 1-June 12, 1739

U. H. J.
No. 734

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 26 May 1739
Read the second time and will pass.
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl Lo Ho.

Read the first time in this house and Ordered to lye on the Table
Read the first time in this House the Bill Entituled An Act for
Limitation of Officers fees and Ordered to lye on the. Table
Adjourned till Monday Morning Nine of the Clock

May 28

Monday Morning 28 May 1739
This House met again according to Adjournment

Present

The
Honble

Col Matt. Tilgh: Ward
Benjamin Tasker Esq^r
George Plater Esq^r
Edmund Jenings Esq^r

James Hollyday Esq^r
Col Charles Hammond
Col Levin Gale

Read the second time the Bill Entituled an Act for Limitation of
Officers fees, and will not pass & sent by Col Gale
Read the second time the Bill Entituled An Act for the Benefit
of the Poor and Encouragement of Industry, and will pass, pro-
vided the Continuance of the Act be for three Years and unto the End
of the next Session of Assembly which shall happen after the End
of the said three years; sent by Col Hammond
Read the second time the Bill Entituled an Act for enlarging the
Jurisdiction of the County Courts within this Province, and will not
pass, and sent by James Hollyday Esq^r
Read the second time the Bill Entituled an Act empowering the
three Comm^rs therein named together with the Justices of Calvert
County to repair the Court house of that County by an Assesment
on the Inhabitants thereof, passed & sent by Edmund Jenings Esq^r

p. 33

Read the second time the Bill Entituled an Act reviving an Act
Entituled an Act to prevent the injuring Harbours within this Prov-
ince; and the Bill Entituled an Act reviving an Act Entituled a
supplementary Act to the Act Entituled An Act laying an Imposi-
tion 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, passed and sent by George Plater
Esq^r
Adjourned till two of the Clock in the Afternoon