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

L. H. J.
Lib. No. 45

ment of Jonas Green of the City of Annapolis printer was read and
assented to
The House adjourned until to Morrow Morning at nine of the
Clock

June i

Friday morning June I^st 1739 The House met according to
Adjournment: all present that were yesterday except Col^o Hooper
The Bill Entituled An Act for laying out the Town a new com-
monly called Snow Hill Town sent to the Upper House by M^r Henry
and M^r Gale
The House adjourned for a Quarter of an hour The House met
according to Adjournment the Members were called and all Ap-
peared
An Ingrossed Bill Entituled An Act to vest an Estate in fee simple
of and in a Tract of Land called Ropers Neck in Benjamin Howard
and for setling other Lands of equal Value in Lieu thereof Read
and Assented to
And the Ingrossed Bill Entituled An Act for the Speedy and
effectual publication of the Laws of this Province and for the en-
couragement of Jonas Green printer sent to the Upper House with
the paper Bills by Captain Gordon and M^r Aisquith
The Bill Entituled An Act for laying out and Applying a Sum
not exceeding 200 i current money to the uses therein mentioned
Read the second time and will pass sent to the Upper House by Cap-
tain Thomas Gassaway and M^r Gale
On Reading the Report of the Conferees relating to an Officers
fee Bill Ordered that the Conferees of this House acquaint the
conferees of the Upper House that this House having taken into
consideration the Report of their members appointed conferees con-
cerning the Officers fee Bill and the proposal made by the Conferees
appointed by the Upper House of making that Bill A perpetual Act
do unanimously agree that it would be of the most dangerous and
destructive consequence to the people of this province to make such

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An Act perpetual and that their Conferees aforesaid have it in
charge to acquaint the Conferees of the Upper House with this
Resolution and Reject the proposal aforesaid and that if the said
Conferees from the Upper House should refuse to proceed in the
Conference without this Houses acquiescing in that Proposal they
be told as from this House that all the Evils that shall arise to the
People of this province for want of An Act for regulating Officers
fees must be laid to the Charge of the Upper House inasmuch as
this House by the Bill proposed have given larger fees and a longer
duration than has been in the like Act in our neighbouring Colony
of Virginia which is immediately under his Majestys Auspicious
Government and Protection and have done every other thing in their
Power in Order to render such a Bill Useful to the Province