Which was Read the first time and Ordered to lie on the Table
Mr Dulany from the Committee of Laws brings in a Bill entituled
An Act for the better Administration of Justice in Testamentary
Affairs Granting Administrations Recovery of Legacies securing
filial Portions and Distributions of Intestates Estates and for Repeal-
ing the several Acts therein mentioned
And It being moved that the Bill be referred for the Consideration
of the next Assembly, the same is referred and Ordered that Mr Jonas
Green Print 85 Copies of the Bill that he deliver one Copy to his
Excellency the Governor one Copy to each Member of the Upper
House and the remaining Copies to be sent to the Sheriffs of the
several Counties to be delivered to the Representatives of the Coun-
ties for the time being by them to be dispersed
Ordered that the Printer carefully stitch and Interleave each Copy
Ordered also that the same Number of the Copies of the Acts of
Assembly of the Colony of Virginia, relating to Testamentary and
Administration Affairs and manner of passing Accounts thereon,
and the Fees allowed there by Law for the same be Printed for the
Perusal of the People of Maryland and be stitched up interleaved and
transmitted as before directed
Ordered that Mr Dulany and Doctor Carroll collect and procure
Copies of such Acts of the Laws of Virginia and Extracts as afore-
said which are necessary to be Printed
Ordered that the Printer make Marginal Notes to the Bill before
mentioned for which and Printing he is to be allowed by the Publick
forty shillings a Sheet
Mr Calder is added to the Committee of Aggrievances
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