Monday Morning May 21st 1739
The House met According to Adjournment. Mr Moale appeared
this morning
An Ingrossed bill Entituled an Act for Encouragement of Abra-
ham Wood of Saint Marys County to bild Mills read and assented to
and sent to the upper house with the paper bill by Mr Aisquith and
Mr Smallwood. on Reading the Petition of William Radcliffe pray-
ing an Allowance for a Negro Slave who being apprehended and
Committed for the Murther of another Slave died in Goal before
Conviction. The Question was put whether the Petitioner be Al-
lowed for the Slave that Died in Goal or not.
Resolved in the Negative.
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