The Upper House. 175

Friday Morning 12 June 1741
This House met again according to Adjournment
Present as yesterday
Mess^rs George and Wilkinson from the Lower House attend with
M^r Thomas Hammond A Member elected for Queen Anns County
in the Room of M^r Edward Wright deceased who takes the Oaths
to the Government appointed to be taken by Act of Assembly and
subscribes the Abjuration and Test and then withdrew
An Engrossed Bill from the Lower House by Mess^rs Smith and
Brome Entituled An Act impowering the three Commissioners
herein named together with the Justices of Calvert County to repair
the Court House of that County by an Assessment on the Inhabitants
thereof thus Subscribed
12 June 1741
Read and Assented to by the Lower House of Assembly
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl lo Ho.
Read and Assented to by this House and Ordered to be so Sub-
scribed
Read the second time the Bill entituled A Supplementary Act

U. H. J.
June 12

to the Act Entituled an Act for repairing the damages already
Sustained in the Records of the Land Secretarys Commissarys and
County Court Offices and for Security of the same Records for the
future and will not Pass and sent by Philip Lee Esq^r
An Engrossed Bill from the Lower House by Mess^rs Wootton and
Hall Entituled An Act empowering the Justices of Prince Georges
County to levy on the Taxable Inhabitants of Queen Anns Parish
in the said County the Sum of One hundred Pounds Current Money
of Maryland for the Uses therein mentioned thus Subscribed

12 June 1741
Read and Assented to by the Lower House of Assembly
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl lo Ho.
Read and Assented to by this House and Ordered to be so Sub-
scribed
Read the second time the Bill entituled An Act to prevent the
Exportation of Indian Corn for the time therein limited and will
Pass with the following Amendments, the Words, fifteenth, in 8^th,
11^th & 14^th Line, to be made twentieth, after the Word, forfeiture,
in 8^th Line of the 2^d Page put to the Right Honourable the Lord
Proprietary his Heirs and Successors, instead of the Words, shall
be divided among the Greatest Objects of Charity in the County
where such Seizure shall be made, of which Objects the Major part
of the Justices of such County shall Judge and determine; sent by
Samuel Chamberlain Esq^r
Read the second time the Bill entituled An Act investing Archibald
Douglas of Cecil County Son and Heir of William and Mary

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