Letter of Transmission. xvii

Parish in Calvert County was empowered to build a chapel of ease, and Talbot
and St. Mary's Counties were allowed to pay Jonas Green's bill for printing.

A brief Session was held November 6 to 12, 1746, called to provide funds
for the purchase of provisions for the troops raised in the Province. A bill
for that purpose was the only act passed. The accounts of the expenses of
transporting the soldiers to Albany were spread on the Journal. The only
division occurred on November 8, when the Lower House voted, 19 to 14, not
to address Gov. Bladen upon a complaint from Dr. Carroll of " insults and
abuses " from the Governor. Carroll did not vote, but his three fellow mem-
bers from Anne Arundel favored supporting him, as did Harris of Kent,
Joseph Hall and Brome of Calvert, Lloyd of Talbot, Sheredine and Buchanan
of Baltimore, Wootton and Addison of Prince George's. The House then
adopted a resolution of confidence in Dr. Carroll.

Bladen left the Province soon afterwards and Ogle returned as Governor,
a position which he had twice before held and in which he was now destined
to continue until his death. Although, when he left the Province, several years
before, the relations had been bad between him and the Lower House, now
the Delegates worked in a fair harmony with him in the third Session of the
Assembly, which lasted from May 16 to July 11, 1747. During this rather
long Session, twenty-eight acts were passed, some of which were of a very
considerable importance. An assize law, for trial of matters of fact in the
several counties where they may arise, was enacted for two years, and provi-
sion was made for the inspection of tobacco and the limitation of officers' fees
by another statute, which was to endure until 1753. A fire in the house of the
clerk of the Charles County Court caused the passage of a law to provide
against loss of rights through burning of legal papers and to prohibit removal
from any court house of such papers in the future. Other public local laws
forbade the raising of swine and geese in Princess Anne Town and in Oxford,
directed that Snow Hill Town be laid out anew, and empowered the building
of a church and two chapels of ease in the great parish of All Saints, which
covered the whole of Western Maryland. Commissioners were empowered to
set a price on land in St. Margaret's Westminster Parish, whereon stands the
Chapel of Ease (probably Marley Chapel, now removed to Glen Burnie).
Baltimore Town was enlarged by the addition of eighteen acres to the east, but
must not elect a Delegate to the Assembly. The Public Jail at Annapolis must
be repaired. St. Anne's Parish, Annapolis, was empowered to lease certain
land. Jonas Green was granted leave to print the Session Laws. The payment
of the " public charges " was directed. Four acts provided for the clearing of
the title to tracts of land. Seven temporary laws were continued. The sale of