The Lower House. 175

William Taylard then Register of the Commissary's office: That
the said Henry did, by his aforesaid last Will and Testament, ap-
point his wife Anne full and sole Executrix thereof: That to the
same is annexed Letters Testamentary, granted to the said Anne,
under the Hands and Seals of Henry Darnall and Clement Hill
Esquires, then Judges for Probat of Wills and granting Adminis-
trations, bearing date the I^st Day of March 1686.
All which is humbly submitted to the Consideration of the House.
Signed per Order, Richard Dorsey Cl. Com.

September 16, 1745.
Which being read, the House concurs therewith, and the Petition
therein mentioned is granted.
Col. Plater from the Upper House, delivers M^r Speaker the Bill
entituled, An Act for the Trial of all Matters of Fact in the several
Counties where they have arisen or shall arise, Indorsed, (See
page 40)
And the following message, (See page 40)
The said Bill being read was passed for ingrossing.
The House adjourns to 2 of the Clock

Post Meridiem

The House met according to Adjournment
The House adjourns 'til To-morrow Morning 9 of the Clock

L. H. J.
Liber No. 46

Thursday Morning, September 19. 1745

The House met according to Adjournment, and the Proceedings
of Yesterday were read
M^r Smith delivers M^r Speaker the following Report, viz.
By the Committee appointed for the dividing of Prince George's
County.
Your Committee by due Inspection do find, that it will be con-
venient to the Inhabitants of Prince George's County, if only one
Division be made, to have the Division of the said County begin
at the mouth of Rock Creek, and from thence, running up the said
Creek, to Kennedy Farrell's Bridge; and from thence by a streight
Line to Peter Murphy's Ford; and all the Lands to the Northward
and westward now within the Bounds of Prince Georges County,
to be the County now to be erected. But if two Divisions be made,
to have the first Division begin at the mouth of the Eastern Branch
of Potomack River, and running to the Head thereof; then by the
Lines of Prince George's and Queen Anne's Parishes to Patuxent
River, then up Patuxent River to John Parr's Spring, commonly
called the uppermost Spring of Patuxent River, then with a streight

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