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By the Lower house of Assembly 1 Oct. 1742
Read the second time and will pass
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl Lo H.
Read the first time in this house & Ordered to lye on the Table
Read the Petition of sundry the Inhabitants of Prince Georges
County praying Leave to bring in a Bill for erecting and laying out a
Town in said County at or near the Garrison Landing on the South
side of the Eastern Branch of Patowmack referred to the Considera-
tion of the Lower house of Assembly & sent by Col Hammond
Read the second time the Bill Entituled An Act for the Advance-
ment of Justice, and passed with the following Amendm^ts Page 5
Line 7^th for, Two, put Three, Line 17^th for Two, put, Three, and
sent by Samuel Chamberlain Esq^r
Adjourned till 3 of the Clock in the Afternoon

Eodem Die post Meridiem
This house met again according to Adjournment

Present as in the Morning
Mess^rs Gordon and Worthington from the Lower house attend
with M^r Benjamin Tasker jun^r, a Member elected for the City of
Annapolis in the Room of Daniel Dulany Esq^r in Order to see him
qualified, who takes the Oaths to the Government appointed to be
taken by Act of Assembly, and subscribes the Abjuration and Test
and then withdrew
Adjourned till to Morrow Morning ten of the Clock

U. H. J.

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Saturday Morning 2^d Octo^r 1742
This house met again according to Adjournment

Present as Yesterday
A Bill from the Lower house by M^rs Waughop & Lecompte Enti-
tuled An Act to prevent the Exportation of Indian Corn & Wheat

October 2

for the time therein limited thus Endorsed
By the Lower house of Assembly 28 Septem^r 1742
Read the first time & Ordered to lye on the Table
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl Lo H.
By the Lower house of Assembly 29 Septem^r 1742
Read & committed for Amendments
Signed p Order M Macnemara Q Lo H.
By the Lower house of Assembly 1 Octo^r 1742
Read the second time and will pass
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl Lo H.
Adjourned till Monday Morning ten of the Clock

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