The Lower House. 349

The Petition of the Rector Vestrymen and Church Wardens of
Saint Annes Parish praying Leave to bring in a Bill to empower
the present Incumbent to Lease out three Lots &c^a Read and
Granted

The Petition of Ashbury Sutton and others praying to have Leave
to build a new Gallery in the Parish Church &c^a Read and Referred
for Consideration until next Session of Assembly
The Petition of the Rector Vestrymen and Church Wardens of
Saint Annes Parish praying Leave to dispose of certain Seats in
the Gallery of the Parish Church Read and Referred for Considera-
tion until next Session of Assembly
The Bill entituled an Act to enable the Justices of Baltimore
County to assess and Levy on the Taxable Inhabitants of Saint
Pauls Parish in the said County a quantity of Money or Tobacco
for the uses and Purposes therein mentioned and also to divide the
said Parish and to erect part thereof into a new one, Read the first
time & Ordered to lie on the Table.
M^r Smith from the Committee appointed to inspect the Public
Goal &c^a delivers M^r Speaker the following Report viz.
By the Committee appointed to inspect the Public Goal in the City
of Annapolis and the Usage of the Prisoners therein

October 18, 1742

Your Committee having view'd and examined the said Goal, find
that the same is wholesom and warm and kept in good Order
That in the first Room on the Left Hand of entring the said Goal
the Joists in the said Room as also in the Room over it have been
cut and made use of by the Prisoners as they declare for Firewood
That in the Brick Wall of the Goal Yard there is a large Crack
occasioned by the Foundation being bad, which if not timely re-
paired may endanger the falling of the said Wall
That in the said Yard there is a good Pump with Water for the
use of the Prisoners and in the Goal aforesaid there is likewise a
Hand Mill for their use
And your Committee further find that in the said Goal their are
Eleven Prisoners Debtors and Criminals to wit John Lumley, George
Jenkins, Thomas Mansfield, Susannah Murray Catherine Brett,
Anthony Hill, William Rose Honor Hugell Patrick Conolly Negro
Doctor and Negro Duke, and that the Allowance made them by the
present Sheriff of Anne Arundel County M^r Samuel Smith is as
follows.
One Pint of Corn p diem, and two Pounds of Meat in a Week
to each Prisoner and in Failure of the said Pint of Corn they are
allowed a Pint of Pease

L. H. J.