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

L. H. J.

That the Prisoners have only an old Broken Iron Pot and a small
Kettle to dress their Meat in which said Pot and Kettle are some-
times denied them by Negro Preston who claims the Property of
them and they complain that there is not a sufficiency of Wood
allowed them wherewith to dress or Cook their Victuals
Your Committee humbly certify that the said Prisoners do not
complain against the said M^r Smith (the Sheriff) on Account of

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any ill usage by Blows or Stripes but make Complaint chiefly on the
Scanty and Spare Allowance of Meat which they declare is not a
sufficient Subsistance and were it not for the Charity of many well
disposed People they could not live on the Allowance of Meat made
them as abovesaid
Your Committee likewise further Certify to this Honourable
House that the Prisoners now in the said Goal did not, nor have not
made any Application to the said M^r Smith the Sheriff in order to
redress their Aggrievance in not being allowed a Competency of
Meat, nor have they (by their own Confession) in any sort Com-
plained thereof to him
And your said Committee further signify that since the first
Enquiry of the 27^th of September last, there hath Died one James
White a Prisoner in the said Goal
All which is most humbly referred to the Consideration of this
Honble House Signed p Order William Marshe Ct Com.
The House Adjourns until the Morrow Morning at nine of the
Clock

October 19

Tuesday Morning October 19^th 1742

The House met according to Adjournment &c^a
M^r Smith from the Committee appointed to divide Somerset
County delivers M^r Speaker the following Report
By the Committee appointed for the dividing Somerset County
October 19, 1742
Your Committee by due Inspection do find, that it will be con-
venient to the Inhabitants of Somerset County, to have the division
of the said County to begin at Watkinns Point and from thence
running up Pocomoke Bay to the Mouth of Pocomoke River and
with the said River to the Mouth of dividing Creek; thence up to
the Westernmost Side of the said Creek and main Branch to the
Bridges called Denstones Bridges from thence West to the main
Road called Parahawkin Road; thence up and with the said Road
to John Caldwells Sen^rs Saw Mill thence up and with the said Road
over Cox's Branch to Broad Creek Bridge and down the said Branch
and Creek into Nanticoke River; thence down the said River with
Dorchester County to the Mouth thereof, and from thence including
all the Islands formerly deem'd to be in Somerset County to the