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the manner of Trying Slaves, read a second time, and will pass with
the following amendments. (See page 17.)
The Bill Entituled an Act to remove Some Doubts Concerning the
Probates of Wills, referred for a further reading on the Thirtieth
Day of June next.
The Bill Entituled an Act to Dock the Entail of a Tract of Land
Called Wilsons Grove &^ca read Second time passed Sent to Up^r
House by M^r Denton and M^r Tilghman
Col Hammond from the Up^r House Delivers M^r Speaker the Bill
Entituled an Act for Limitation of the time of Shipping Tobacco
Indorsed read by the Upper House the 2^d time and will not pass.
James Holliday Esq^r from the Up^r House Delivers M^r Speaker
the Bill Entituled an Act for the further Explaining and Carrying
into Execution an Act for laying out and Applying £3500 Current
money of Maryland to the uses therein mentioned Indorsed read
by the Up^r House 19^th May 1737 the Second time and will pass
which Bill was here read and passed for Ingrossing.
The Bill Entituled an Act Empowering the Justices of Cecil
County Court to Levy on the Taxable Inhabitants of St. Stephens
North Sassafras Parish the Sum of £280 Current money of Mary-
land at two Equal Assessments read the second time passed and
sent to Up^r House by M^r Johnson and M^r Wilson
M^r Hammond Brings in the following Address.

To His Excy Samuel Ogle Esq^r Governour of the Province of
Maryland

The Humble Address of the Lower House of Assembly
May it please Your Excellency

As Hearing the Complaint of those we represent and Examining
into the Nature of any Oppressions they may Labour under is one
of the most Essential parts of the great Trust Committed to us we
begg Leave to Acquaint your Excellency that in Execution of that
Trust we find by the Information as well as Testimony of Several
persons had under Examination before us that M^r Philip Thomas a
farmer of His Lordships Quit Rents hath Grievously Oppressed
many of his faithful Tenants and Contrary to his Lordships Known
Disposition in a most arbitrary and unwarrantable manner Exacted
and Extorted from them in Discharge, of their Quit rents several
Sums of foreign Gold and Silver at a rate far less than is Declared
their Sterling Value by his Lordships Instruction of the fifteenth
Day of December Seventeen hundred and thirty five and in Open
Contempt of his Lordships Direction by the said Instruction.
It Likewise Appears that M^r Gilbert Crockett a Receiver under the
said Philip Thomas hath not only in the Like Oppressive Arbitrary

L. H. J.
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