176 Assembly Proceedings, August 5-September 28, 1745.

L. H. J.

Liber No. 46

Line to the mouth of Monockasy, then down Potomack River to the
mouth of the Eastern Branch, to be one of the Counties now to be
erected: And that all the Lands to the northward and Westward
to be the other County.
All which is humbly submitted to the Consideration of the House
Signed per Order. E. Dorsey Cl. Com.
Which being read, a Question was put, whether there shall be
two Divisions, or only one Division, of the said County ? Resolved,
that there shall be but one Division.

For one Division

M^r G. Wilson M^r Lloyd M^r Hyland
I. Gresham Thomas Gordon
R. Gresham I. Goldsborough Pemberton
Harris Hooper T. Hammond
Stoughton Ennalls, Hopper
King Lecompte Henry
D. Wilson George Purnell
Dennis Colvill Selby
N. Goldsborough Pearce Outten

[For two Divisions]

M^r Bond M^r Jos. Hall M^r John Hall
Abell Brome Buchanan
Barnes Mackall Wootton
Carroll Courts Sprigg
p. Hammond Smallwood Addison
Worthington W. Wilkinson Bordley
Hen. Hall Sherredine T. Wilkinson
Smith Paca

M^r Smith delivers M^r Speaker the following Report, viz.
By the Committee appointed to enquire where the Bounds of a
new County, to be erected out of the upper Parts of Dorchester and
Queen Anne's Counties, may most conveniently run.
Your Committee, by due Inspection do find, that it will be con-
venient to the Inhabitants of Dorchester and Queen Ann's Counties,
to have the County to be erected begin at the mouth of Tuckahoe
Creek, and up and with the said Creek to the new Causeway, and
from said Causeway with the new Road to Dover Road, and with
Dover Road to the main Branch of Choptank River, and with said
Branch to Kent County on Delaware, and with the Line of Kent
and Sussex to the North East Branch of Nanticoke River, and down
and with the said Branch and River to the mouth of a small Creek
on which Maj. James Billings's Mill stands, formerly known by the