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By the Lower house of Assembly 21 May 1747
Read the first Time and Ordered to Lye on the Table
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl. Lo H.
By the Lower house of Assembly 23 June 1747
Read the Second Time and will Pass
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl Lo H.
Read the first time in this house and ordered to Lye on the Table
Adjourned till to Morrow Morning ten of the Clock

U.H.J.
Liber No. 34

Wednesday Morning 24 June 1747
This house met again according to Adjournment
Present as Yesterday

June 24

Read the second Time the Bill Entituled an Act empowering the
Vestrymen and Church Wardens of all Saints Parish in Prince
Georges County or of the County where the said Parish shall be to
Purchase three Seperate Acres of Land in the said Parish whereon
to Build a Church and Two Chappels of Ease, and to impower the
Justices of Prince Georges County or of the County wherein the
said Parish shall be to levy on the Taxable Inhabitants of the said
Parish the Sum of three hundred Pounds Current money; and the
Bill Entituled an Act to Cut of the Entail of Two hundred Acres
of Land Part of a Tract of Land called St. Patricks hill Lying in
Charles County, and to Invest Thomas Hussey Luckett with an
Estate in fee Simple in the said Land and to Entail a Tract or Parcel
of Land called Waidstones Enlargement and Part of a Tract of
Land called Waidstone in Lieu thereof Passed and sent to the
Lower house of Richard Lee Esquire
Two Bills from the Lower house by Mess^rs Hall & Sullyvan One
Entituled an Act Continuing an Act of Assembly of this Province
Entituled an Act for the more Effectual Punishment of Certain
Offenders, and for taking from them the Benefit of Clergy the other
Entituled an Act continuing an Act of Assembly of this Province
Entituled a Supplementary Act to the Act Entituled an Act for the
more Effectual Punishment of Negroes and other Slaves and for
taking away the Benefit of Clergy from Certain Offenders; and to
an Act Entituled an Act to prevent the Tumulterious meeting and
other Irregularities of Negroes and other Slaves and Directing the
manner of Trying Slaves, Thus Endorsed
By the Lower house of Assembly 21 May 1747
Read the first time and ordered to Lye on the Table.
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl LoH.
By the Lower house of Assembly 24 June 1747
Read the second time and will Pass.
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl LoH.

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