304 Assembly Proceedings, May 1-June 12, 1739.

L. H. J.
Lib. No. 45

on the twenty Sixth of the same month and afterwards make a tender
of the Sum of Eight Shillings and nine pence half penny Sterling to
the said Digges at his Dwelling house aforesaid as the full amount
of the half years rent Due thereon which the said Digges refused to
receive but ordered the said Plummer to go to S^t Marys and pay the
same there or that he the said Digges would Distrein for the Same,
that the said Digges did accordingly Distrein the goods of the said
Plummer for the said Eight Shillings and nine pence half penny for
half a years rent due as aforesaid notwithstanding the tender thereof
to the said Digges so as aforesaid by the said Plummer made by

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which Distress also, so as aforesaid made the said Plummer was
Charged and Burthened with the payment of the further Sum of one
hundred and thirty four pounds of Tobacco Officers fees. All which
Actings and Doings your Committee Conceive to be a great bur-
then aggrievance and Oppression upon, and an Abuse of the Rights
and Liberty of the Subject and greatly tend to Alienate the affec-
tions of his Lordships Tennants from his Lordships good rule and
Government.
Signed p Order of the Committee S. Bordley Clk.

George Plater Esq^r from the upper house Delivers to M^r Speaker
the Bill Entituled an Act receiving and Continuing an Act of Assem-
bly of this province Entituled an Act for the Speedy Recovery of
small Debts out of Court before a Single Justice of the peace. In-
dorsed ( See pages 216 and 218.)
The House Adjourned untill the morrow Morning 9 of the Clock.

May 11

Friday Morning May 11^th 1739

The House met according to Adjournment, the Petition of John
Lang Rector of S^t James Parish in Ann Arundell County praying
leave to bring in a bill to Enable him to make leases for three lives
or 21 years of two Tracts of Land lying in the County aforesaid
devised for the use of the petitioners Parish Church the one Contain-
ing about one Hundred Acres lying near Herring Creek Church the
other Called Wrighton lying near pig point Containing about 500
Acres in Consideration of the Petitioners making Improvements on
the said Lands for the Benefit not only of himself but his Successors
in office, Read and granted. The Petition of Charles and Clement
Sewall Read and the facts therein set forth referred to the Examina-
tion of Coll King M^r Goldsborough M^r Gale M^r Henry Coll: Colvill
and M^r Hynson or any three of them who are to make report of the
facts as they find them. Benjamin Tasker Esq^r from the upper
hous Delivers M^r Speaker a petition of Severall the Inhabitants of
Prince Georges County &c. praying leave to have a Separate County
from that in which they Reside to have Separate Magistrates and