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County Prison, when built and repaired; Leave is given. Ordered,
That the Committee of Laws do prepare and bring in a Bill
accordingly.
Ordered, That the Committee of Accounts do not receive any
Accounts or Public Claims after Saturday next; and that the Com-
mittee of Accounts do close the Journal of Accounts on Tuesday
next.
Ordered, That no new Business be proceeded on, after 12 o'Clock
on Saturday next.
The Bill entituled, An Act impowering the Justices of Calvert
County Court, &c. was read the second Time, and will pass; and was
sent to the Upper House by Mr. James John Mackall and Mr. Ben-
son Bond.
The House adjourns until 2 of the Clock.
Post Meridiem.
The House met according to Adjournment.
The Petition of the Vestry, Churchwardens, and Parishioners, of
King and Queen Parish, in St. Mary's County, was read, and re-
ferred to the next Assembly.
Mr. Nicholas Goldsborough, from the Committee of Grievances,
delivers to Mr. Speaker the following Report :
By the Committee of Grievances and Courts of Justice,
June 13, 1749.
Whereas a certain Jasper Hall, of Baltimore County, hath com-
plained to your Committee, That being possessed of twenty Acres
Part of a Tract of Land called Jacob's Lot, in Baltimore County,
the Rent of which to the Lord Proprietary amounts, at the largest
Computation, to ten Pence Sterling per Annum, which he the said
Hall saith he was, at all Times from his having the said Land, ready
to pay, which was in the Year 1746; but that in the Year 1747, a
certain William Young, Receiver of his Lordship's Quit Rents in
the said County, without ever making any Demand for the said
Rent of him the said Jasper Hall, caused a certain Henry Morgan,
Sheriff of the same County, to distrain him the said Hall; which he
did, by taking one Bed, one Chest, and one Spinning wheel, the
Property of the said Hall, for the Sum of twelve Shillings, which
he the said Young, and the said Sheriff, alleged to be due, as Rent,
or Arrears of Rent, for the said Land; which Distress appears to
have been made on the tenth Day of July, Seventeen hundred and
forty-seven.
Your Committee humbly observe, that at the same Time that the
said Distress was made on the said Jasper Hall, a certain Henry
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L. H. J.
Liber No. 46
June 13
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