472 Assembly Proceedings, May 1-June 4, 1744.

U. H. J.

By the Lower House of Assembly 22 May 1744
Read the second time and will pass.
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl Lo. Ho.
Read the first time in this House and Ordered to lie on the Table.
Read the second time the Bill entituled an Act to divide Prince
Georges County and to erect a new County on the Upper Part
thereof and will pass with the following Amendments Page I^st Line
7^th instead of, after the 20 day of December next, put these Words,
within two Months after his Lordship the Lord Proprietary shall
have signified his Assent to, or Approbation of this Act, Leave out
all the Words between Videlicet and River; in 8^th and 11^th Lines of
the same Page, and insert the following, from the Lower side of
the Mouth of Rock Creek, then with the said Creek to Kenneday
Farrells Bridge, from thence with a streight Line to Peter Murpheys
Ford, on Patuxent River, Page 2^d Line 12^th instead of 10^th day of
January next, put, within two Months after his Lordships Approba-
tion shall be signified as aforesaid, and at the end add this Proviso ;
Provided always that this Act shall not be of any force or Effect,
or be put in Execution until the Right Honourable the Lord Pro-
prietary shall have signified his Assent thereto or Approbation
thereof; and sent to the Lower House by Samuel Chamberlain Esq^r
A Bill from the Lower House by Mess^rs Robins and Selby Enti-
tuled an Act to enable certain Commissioners therein named to lay
out forty Acres of Land into Eighty Lotts for a Town on Indian
River in Worcester County as also forty Acres of Land at the head
of Assateague Creek at a Place commonly called the Trapp for a
Town, thus Endorsed

By the Lower House of Assembly 17 May 1744
Read the first time in this House and Ordered to lie on the Table
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl Lo. Ho.

By the Lower House of Assembly 22^d May 1744
Read the second time and will pass
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl Lo: Ho.
An Engrossed Bill from the Lower house by Mess^rs Purnell and
Henry Entituled an Act for building a Prison in Worcester County
thus subscribed
22^d May 1744

Read and Assented to by the Lower House of Assembly
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl Lo. Ho.

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Read and Assented to by this House and Ordered to be so sub-
scribed
A Bill from the Lower House by Mess^rs Sprigg and Harrison
Entituled an Act to enable the Rector Vestrymen and Church War-
dens of Saint James's Parish in Anne Arundel County to lease