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

L. H. J.

This House is of opinion that your allowing your Prisoners only
two Pounds of Meat a Week is a great Breach of your duty, being
by far too small for them to live on as well as unjust, since the Im-
prisonment Fees will afford a much better Provision. It is likewise
the Sense of this House, that a Pint of Corn is also too scanty an
Allowance p diem and that it is not enough that you have provided
more; but it is likewise your indispensable duty, to see that it be
duly delivered and not imbezzled by those whom you entrust to deal
it out, and that you provide the Prisoners with Fire Wood and
Vessels to dress their Victuals with: But they have thought fit to
proceed no further in this Affair against you at this time than to
declare, that if ever any Complaint of the Kind should come before
them hereafter, and be made appear they will take all Means to have
the Authors punished in the severest manner.
Ordered that the Committee of Laws prepare an Address to his
Lordship on his Speech communicated this Session to both Houses
of Assembly
On Motion of a Member that an Address be prepared to his
Excellency to Order the proper Officer or Officers to lay before this
House the Annual Income arising from his Lordships Quit Rents
Ordered that an Address be prepared and that Doctor Carroll
and M^r George prepare and bring in the same

p. 348

Col^o Gale from the Upper House delivers M^r Speaker the Rill
entituled an Act for enlarging the Jurisdiction of the County Courts
Indorsed (See page 287)
The House Adjourns until 2 of the Clock in the Afternoon

Post Meridiem

The House met according to Adjournment &c.
On Reading a second time the Bill entituled an Act for raising a
duty of three half Pence Sterling per Hhd on all Tobacco Exported
out of this Province for the use of the County Schools
The Question was put Whether the said Bill shall pass or not?
Resolved in the Negative

For the Negative

M^r Waughop M^r Weems M^r Hindman
Swann Brome Lecompte
Griffith Smallwood Hyland
Chesley Harrison Sheredine
R. Gresham W. Wilkinson Magruder
Carroll N. Goldsborough Wootton
Gresham Thomas Pemberton
Worthington Goldsborough Wright
Smith Ennalls T. Wilkinson