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Read and Assented to by this House and Ordered to lie on the
Table
The following Message with the Bill for dividing Prince Georges
County and the Bill for dividing Queen Anns and Dorchester Coun-
ties is sent by Edmund Jenings Esq^r

By the Upper House of Assembly 26 September 1745
Gentlemen

In Answer to your Message of this day by Mess^rs Sprigg and
Hopper We are willing to Agree to the Amendments proposed to
the Bill Ent^d an Act to divide Prince Georges County and to erect a
new one by the name of Frederick County and a Bill entituled an Act
to divide Dorchester & Queen Anns Countys and to erect a new one
out of the Upper part thereof by the Name of Prince William
County because We presume that before that time his Lordships
Pleasure may be known with regard either to his dissent or Ap-
probation
Signed p Order J Ross G Up Ho.
Read the second time the Bill entituled an Act for ascertaining
the Allowances of Petit Jurors attending in the Provincial Court
and to limit Costs with Respect to Evidences and will pass with
the following Amendments & sent by Edmund Jenings Esq^r between
the Words Cause, and two, in the last Line of the first Page, put,
and many others who really know nothing of the Fact and are only
summoned to enhance the Cost; after the Word Fact; in 4^th Line
of 2^d Page put these Words or any other Witness or Witnesses that
shall appear to the Court to have been unnecessarily summoned
Adjourned till three of the Clock in the Afternoon

Eodem Die post Meridiem
This House met again according to Adjournment

Present as in the Morning
An Engrossed Bill from the Lower House by Mess^rs Hall & Pearce
Ent^d an Act for ascertaining the Allowance of Petit Jurors attending
the Provincial Court and to limit Costs with respect to Evidences,
thus Subscribed
26 Sept^r 1745

Read and Assented to by the Lower House of Assembly
Signed p Order W^m Tilghman Cl Lo. Ho.

U. H. J.
Liber No. 34

Read & Assented to by this House and Ordered to be so sub-
scribed
Read the second time the Bill ent^d an Act for the Gauge of Bar-
rells for Pork, Beef Pitch Tarr and Tare of Barrels for Flour and
Bread, and passed with the following Amendments, to add Turpen-
tine after the Word Tarr, in the Title and so throughout the Bill,
and to incert a Clause to Limit the Time for commencing an Action

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