The Lower House. 423

Post Meridiem.
The House met according to Adjournment.
Richard Lee, Esq; from the Upper House, delivers to Mr.
Speaker the Bill entituled, An Explanatory Act to the Act entituled,
An Act for the Direction of Sheriffs in their Offices, and restraining
their ill Practices within this Province; Indorsed, " By the Upper
House of Assembly, May 23, 1750: Read the second Time, and will
not pass." The Bill entituled, An Act for the Gauge of Barrels for
Pork, &c. And the Bill entituled, An Act to oblige Owners, Over-
seers, and Managers of Iron- Works, &c. Severally Indorsed, " By
the Upper House of Assembly, May 23, 1750: Read the second
Time, and will pass." Which Bills were severally read, and passed
for Ingrossing.

The Bill entituled, An Act to impower the Justices of Prince
George's County Court to agree with an Undertaker, or Undertak-
ers, to stop a Breach, &c. The Bill entituled, An Act for the further
Enlargement of Baltimore-Town, &c. The Bill entituled, An Act to
settle the Divisions between Frederick and Baltimore Counties, &c.
And the Bill entituled, An Additional Supplementary Act to the Act
entituled, An Act for laying out and erecting a Town at a Place
called Long Point, &c. Were severally read the second Time, and
passed; and sent to the Upper House by Mr. Bordley and Mr.
Oldham.

L. H. J.
Liber No. 47
May 23

Dr. Carroll delivers to Mr. Speaker the following Report; viz.
By the Committee appointed to enquire into the Will of Col.
Thomas Smithson, deceased, and Report the same to the House ;
what Estate he bequeathed by his said Will to the Rector, Visitors,
&c. of the Free School in the City of Annapolis, of those Lands;
and also what Estate the said Rector, &c. have in the Lots lying in
the .City of Annapolis, mentioned in the Bill sent down from the
Upper House, May 23, 1750.
Your Committee observe, that by an Act of Assembly of this
Province entituled, An Act for erecting Anne Arundel and Oxford
Towns into Ports and Towns, a Quantity of Land was laid out for
the said Town of Anne Arundel, and divided into Lots; which were,
by the same Act, to be numbered i, and upwards; the first Choice
of which Lots was given to the Owners of the Lands; the next
Choice, to Francis Nicholson, Esq; Governor of this Province at
the same Time, of one, two, or three Lots; which your Committee
conceive, the said Nicholson may have made, as the following Clause
appears in an Act of this Province entituled, An Act for keeping
good Rules and Orders in the Port of Annapolis; viz. ' And be it
further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That all those Deeds,
Obligations, Writings, and Evidences, made by and between his
Excellency Francis Nicholson, Esq; Captain-General and Governor

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