46 Assembly Proceedings, April 26-May 28, 1737.

L. H. J.
Lib. No. 55

Ordered that the Committee of Laws prepare a Bill to aid the
Defects in probates of Last Wills and Testaments.
The Hous Adjourned untill 2 of the Clock in the Afternoon

Post Merediem The House met according to Adjournment &c.
M^r Tench Francis a Representative of Talbot County appeared in
the House this Afternoon
George Plater Esq^r from the Up^r House Delivers M^r Speaker the
following Message (See page 8.)
M^r Speaker Communicated to this House the following Letter with
the Copy of His Lordships Instruction to Benjamin Tasker Esq^r his
Lo^pps Agent Inclosed therein Viz.

To the Hon^ble the Speaker of the Lower House of Assembly

M^r Speaker. By the Directions of His Excy the Governour I
Lay before you a Copy of one of His Lo^pps Instructions to me relate-
ing to foreign whole Gold and Silver that which relates to Cut Gold
I Cant at present find, I think it is at three pounds the ounce I receive
it so of the farmers and receivers
I am Sir your most Humble Servant
Benjamin Tasker 5^th May 1735

p. 692

Copy of His Lordships The Right Honourable the Lord Baltimore
his 4 Instruction Dated at London the 15^th Day of December 1735
You shall Take no foreign Gold at above three pounds Sixteen
Shillings and nine pence and Silver at five Shillings p ounce
that being the price it bares here
Copy .... Benj^a Tasker

The House Adjourns untill to morrow morning at 9 of the Clock

May 6

Friday morning May 6^th 1737

The House met according to Adjournment &c^a
The Question was put whether the House will now Take into Con-
sideration a Method for Altering the payment of the 40 p poll and
Officers fees or not, resolved in the Negative.
On motion of a Member ordered a Bill be brought in to Direct
and Admit the prosecutions of Accessarys to Horse Stealers &c
where the principals fly from Justice before Conviction
Philip Lee Esq^r from the Up^r House Delivers M^r Speaker a
petition of the Vestry Church Wardens and principall Inhabitants of
S^t Stephens Parish on the North Side of Sassafras Indorsed referred
Here by the Up^r House which Petition was here read and Granted.