The Upper House. 305

An Engrossed Bill from the Lower house by Mess^rs Hall and
Chesley Entituled An Act for the Assesment and Payment of the
publick Charge of this Province, thus subscribed

29 Oct^r 1742

Read and assented to by the Lower house of Assembly
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl Lo H.
Read and assented to by this house and ordered to be so subscribed
the Paper Bill so Endorsed is sent by Saml Chamberlain Esq^r

Edmund JeningS and Samuel Chamberlain Esq^r are sent to the

Lower house to acquaint the Speaker that His Excy requires him
and the rest of the Members of that House to attend him immedi-
ately in the Upper house to see the Bills passed both Houses this
Session receive the Assent
The whole House attend and by their Speaker present to his
Excellency the following Bills (the Bill Entituled An Act to enforce
the Collection and Payment of the Publick Charge of this Province

U. H. J.
p. 59

pursuant to an Act of Assembly Entit^d An Act for the Assesment of
the Publick Charge of this Province made at a Session of Assembly
begun and held at the City of Annapolis the 26th Day of May Anno
Dni 1741, being signed and assented to before) which His Excellency
the Governor signed and assented to on behalf of the Right honble
the Lord Proprietary of this province and sealed with his Lordships
Great Seal at Arms, the Titles of which Laws are as follow

Chapter 1

An Act reviving an Act of Assembly of this Province Entituled
An Act for the speedy Recovery of small Debts out of Court before
a single Justice of the Peace

Chapter II

An Act for reviving an Act of Assembly Entituled An Act for
relieving the Inhabitants of this Province from some Aggrievance
in the Prosecution of Suits at Law and for reviving and continuing
the supplementary Act thereto

Chapter III
p. 60

An Act for the Advancement of Justice
An Act to prevent the Exportation of Indian Corn for the time
therein limited

Chapter IV
Chapter V

An Act to revive An Act of Assembly of this Province Entituled
An Act for the better Relief of poor Debtors

Chapter VI

An Act to prevent the ill Practices of Sheriffs in the collecting and
Payment of the Publick and County Levies

Chapter
VII

An Act for the Tryal of all Matters of fact in the several Counties
where they have arisen or shall arise

Chapter
VIII

An Act enabling the Justices of Cecil County to levy on the taxable
Inhabitants of S^t Mary Anns Parish in the County af^d the sum of
Eight hundred Pounds

Chapter IX

A supplementary Act to the Act Entituled an Act for the repairing
the Damages already sustained in the Records of the Land Secretarys

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Chapter X