The Lower House. 49

Cut of the Entail of a Tract of Land Called Wilsons Grove Indorsed
by the Up^r House read and referred to the Consideration of the
Lower House which petition was here read.
Ordered that Major Sprigg and Col Dashiel or any two of them
make Enquiry into the allegations therein Contained and make report
thereof.
Edmund Jenings Esq^r from the Up^r House Delivers M^r Speaker
the Bill Entituled an Act for the more Effectual punishment of Cer-
tain Offenders and for Takeing from them the Benefit of Clergy
Indorsed by the Up^r House of Assembly May 9^th 1737
read the second time and will pass which Bill was here read and
passed for Ingrossing
The House Adjourns untill to morrow morning 9 a Clock

L. H. J.
Lib. No. 45

Tuesday Morning May 10^th 1737

The House met according to Adjournment &c^a all Appeared Ex-
cept Col Belt
The Bill Entituled a Supplementary Act to the Act Entituled an
act for the Explaining and Carrying Into Execution an Act En-
tituled an Act for laying out and Applying £3500 Current money of
Maryland to the uses therein mentioned was read the second time
and on the Question will not pass which Bill was so Indorsed and sent
to the Up^r House by M^r Smith and Captⁿ Wilson
The House Adjourns untill 2 of the Clock in the afternoon

Post Merediem. The House met according to Adjournment &c.
George Plater Esq^r from the Up^r House Delivers M^r Speaker a
petition of Queen Caroline Parish, recommended by the Up^r House
which was here read and Granted.
M^r Tench Francis Delivers M^r Speaker the following Report Viz.
Upon the Petition of Lewis Duvall hereunto annexed referred
to use the Subscribers to Examine into the facts Contained therein
We Doe hereby Certifie that it Appears to us that the Land Called
Wilsons Grove was granted unto Robert Wilson the first Day of
May 1672 and laid out by Arteficiall boundaries and said to Contain
two Hundred acres reserving the Annuall Rent of Eight Shillings
Sterling, That it Appears to us that the said Land lyes about five
miles from Navigable Water Either on South or Severn Rivers
That it Appears to us that there is a very good Dwelling House
upon the said Land Called Wilsons Grove and three Tobacco Houses
and that there are about Thirty or forty Acres of Woodland and but
a Small part of the Timber on said Land fit for Clapp Boards
That it Appears to us that the Land Called Grinets Chance was laid
out by Course and Distance only is said to Contain one hundred

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