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On Motion of a Member for Leave to bring in a Bill to lay out
the Town anew commonly called Snow Hill Town leave is given
A Bill entituled an Act for laying out the Town a new commonly
called Snow Hill Town Read the first time and Ordered to lie on the
Table
M^r Joseph Hall hath Leave of the House to go home
The House Adjourns until the Morrow Morning at nine of the
Clock

: L. H. J.

Saturday Morning October 16, 1742

The House met according to Adjournment
All Members appeared at the call that were present Yesterday
On Motion of a Member that Leave be given to bring in a Bill to
raise A Sum of Money for Support of an Agent for this Province in
Great Britain Leave is Given and Ordered that the Committee of
Laws prepare and bring in a Bill accordingly
On Motion of a Member that Jonas Green be allowed a Sum of
Money in the Journal of Accounts for Services done for the Country
The Question was put Whether Jonas Green shall be allowed in
full Consideration of all Services he did for the Country and disap-
pointments met with before the Act passed in his favour in July
1740 took place? Resolved that the Allowance be £120 and that
the same be allowed in the Journal of Accounts
On Motion of a Member that Leave be given to bring in a Bill to
enable his Excellency Thomas Bladen Esq^r to purchase Lands
whereon to build a House for a Governor and to repeal an Act Enti-
tuled an Act &c^a Leave is given and Ordered that the Committee of
Laws prepare and bring in a Bill accordingly.
M^r Magruder from the Committee of Aggrievances delivers
M^r Speaker the following Report viz.
By the Committee of Aggrievances and Courts of Justice Octo-
ber 15. 1742
Whereas Richard Fiddiman and Robert Roles both of Talbot
County have complained to your Committee that Risden Bozman
Surveyor of the said County, and Benjamin Young Esq^r Examiner
have in an extortionate manner charged them the said Complainants
Surveyors and Examiners fees, and which upon Perusal of the
Acco^ts of the said Gentlemen appear to be really so; the Surveyors
Fees for 361 acres in two dividends amounting to 3196 Pounds of

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Tobacco; and to the Examiner 1960 in the whole 5156 as p Ac-
counts hereunto annexed Which said Service Your Committee ap-
prehend in our Neighbouring Colony of Virginia would not have
exceeded 1200 Pound of Tobacco or in the Province of Pennsylvania
two Pounds ten Shillings which is so Manifest and unreasonable a

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