The Upper House. 459

Read the first Time in this House and Ordered to lie on the Table
Read the following Petitions viz. the Petition of several of the
Back Inhabitants of Prince Georges County praying a Division of
the said County to begin at Kennedy Farrells Bridge and to run a
Line to strike Patuxent at Seth Hyatts and for Patowmack to begin

at said Bridge and run South West until it Strike the said River ;

The Petition of Christopher Lowndes and others Inhabitants of Bla-
densburgh praying that the County of Prince Georges may not be
divided at the Eastern Branch of Patowmeck nor at Senecca referred
to the Consideration of the Lower House and sent by Edmund
Jenings Esq^r
An Engrossed Bill from the Lower House by Mess^rs Henry and
Robins Entituled an Act to encourage the destroying Bears in
Worcester County thus subscribed

11 May 1744

Read and Assented to by the Lower House of Assembly
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl Lo Ho.
Read and Assented to by this House and Ordered to be so sub-
scribed
An Engrossed Bill from the Lower House by Mess^rs Wootton and
Wilkinson Entituled an Act for making a Chappel already erected
in Prince Georges Parish in Prince Georges County a Chappel of
Ease thus subscribed
11 May 1744

Read and Assented to by the Lower House of Assembly
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl Lo Ho.
Read and Assented to by this House and Ordered to be so sub-
scribed
Adjourned till to Morrow Morning ten of the Clock

U. H. J.

Saturday Morning 12 May 1744.
This House met again according to Adjournment

Present as Yesterday
Read the second time the Bill Entituled an Act for the speedy and
Effectual Publication of the Laws of this Province and for the
Encouragement of Jonas Green of the City of Annapolis Printer;
passed and sent by Col^o Hollyday
Read the following Petitions viz^t The Petition of Joseph Gwynn
of Charles County Planter praying an Allowance may be made him
for a Slave Committed to Prison for Felony, and who died in Goal

May 12

before Trial. The Petition of Sundry the Freeholders and Inhabi-
tants of the Upper Parts of Dorchester and Queen Anns County

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