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By the Lower House of Assembly 16 June 1741
Read the second time and will Pass
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl lo Ho.

Read the first time in this House and Ordered to lie on the Table

Mess^rs Hooper and Ennalls from the Lower House attend with
M^r Jacob Hindman a Member elected for Dorchester County in the
Room of M^r John Brannock deceased in Order to see him qualified
who takes the Oaths to the Government appointed to be taken by
Act of Assembly and subscribes the Adjuration and Test and then
withdrew
An Engrossed Bill from the Lower House by Mess^rs Read &
Swann Entituled An Act for the cutting of the Entail and investing
an Estate of Inheritance in Fee Simple in part of a Tract of Land
called Coopers Purchase in Thomas Spalding and Catherine his

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Wife and to entail other Lands lying in Saint Marys County in Lieu
thereof thus subscribed
16 June 1741

Read and Assented to by the Lower House of Assembly
Signed p Order M Macnemara G lo Ho.
Read and Assented to by this House and Ordered to be so Sub-
scribed.
An Engrossed Bill from the Lower House Entituled An Act
investing Archibald Douglas of Cecil County Son and Heir of
William and Mary Douglas deceased with an Estate in fee Simple
in the One Moiety of a Tract of Land called the Levell or Scutts
Levell lying in Baltimore County thus Subscribed

16 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 for the speedy
Recovery of small Debts out of Court before a Single Justice of the
Peace and will not Pass and sent by Col^o Gale
Read the second time the Bill entituled An Act for Limitation of
Officers Fees and will not Pass and sent by Col^o Holliday
Read the Petition of Jonas Green of the City of Annapolis Printer
praying an Allowance may be made him for the time he resided
here from the Year 1738 to the Year 1740 Referred to the Con-
sideration of the Lower House of Assembly and sent by Samuel
Chamberlain Esq^r
Read the Petition of several the Inhabitants of Seneca and
Monococy in Prince Georges County praying that their Parish

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