344 Assembly Proceedings, Sept. 21-Oct. 29, 1742.

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appointed a Committee to enquire what his Lordships Quit Rents
and Alienation fines amount to.
On Motion of a Member that a Bill for the Support of Government
be added to the Bill ordered to be brought in for giving an Equiva-
lent to his Lordship in Lieu of his Alienation Fines and Quit Rents
The Question was put Whether the Support of Government shall
be added to his Lordships Quit Rents: Resolved in the Negative

For the Negative

M^r Waughop M^r Harrison M^r Hyland
Swann W. Wilkinson J. Goldsborough
Griffith Yeates Sheredine
Chesley King Caswell
Wilson Stoughton Magruder
Calder Gale Wootton
Carroll Martin Sprigg
H. Hall N. Goldsborough Pemberton
Worthington Lloyd Wright
Smith Thomas T. Wilkinson
Weems Hindman T. Hammond
J. Hall Lecompte
Smallwood Colvill

For the Affirmative

M^r R. Gresham M^r Ennalls M^r Scott
J. Gresham George Tasker

p. 341

Col^o King from the Committee of Laws delivers M^r Speaker a
Bill entituled An Act for raising three Pence p hhd on all Tobacco
to be Exported for purchasing Arms and Ammunition for the de-
fence of this Province
A Bill entituled an Act for raising three half Pence p hhd on all
Tobacco exported out of this Province for the use of the Governor
and
A Bill entituled an Act for raising three half Pence Sterling p hhd
on all Tobacco Exported out of this Province for the use of the
County schools
Which Bills were severally Read the first time and Ordered to lie
on the Table
On Reading a Petition of several of the Back Inhabitants of
Prince Georges County praying Leave to have the County divided
at the Mouth of Monacacy, Ordered that M^r Smith M^r Weems and
Captain Henry Hall be a Committee to enquire where the most
proper place is to divide the said County and to Build a Court House
and to make their Report to this House