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committed for Murder. Besides which We Observe some Deduc-
tions from the Chancellors & Secretarys fees laid before your Com-
mittee this Session, We hope you will regulate the Journal accord-
ingly that it may pass this house
Signed p Order John Ross Cl Up H.
Read the second time the Bill entituled an Act for Regulating the
Interest upon Tobacco and Money and will pass with the following
Amendm^t. So far as Relates to the Interest of Tobacco to be omitted
And in 11^th Line of Second Page instead of the words the Charges of
the County put the Lord Proprietary for the Support of Govern-
ment, sent to the Lower house by Edmund Jenings Esq^r
Adjourned till 3 of the Clock in the Afternoon

Eodem Die post Meridiem
This house met again according to Adjournment

Present as in the Morning except Col Lloyd
Three Bills from the Lower house by Mess^rs Henry and Oldham
Viz. An Act for erecting a New Market house in the City of An-
napolis; an Act Reviving an Act for the better Relief of Poor
Debtors; An Act to Oblige Naval Officers to give Bonds for what
Money they shall Receive belonging to the Publick; thus Endowed
By the Lower house of Assembly 4 June 1751
Read the first Time & Ordered to lye on the Table
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl Lo H
By the Lower house of Assembly 6 June 1751
Read the second time and will pass
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl Lo H.

U. H. J.
Liber No. 34
June 6

Read the first Time in this house and Ordered to lye on the Table
Read the Second Time the Bills following Viz. An Act reviving
An Act entituled an act for the Speedy Recovery of Small Debts out
of Court before a Single Justice of the Peace; An Act for the Tryal
of all Matters of fact in the Several Counties where they have arisen
or shall arise; and will not Pass, sent to the Lower house by Benedict
Calvert Esq.
Read the Petition of the Rector Vestrymen & Churchwardens of
S^t Johns Parish in Baltimore County Praying that the Sum of two
hundred and fifty Pounds Currency may be leveyed on the Taxable
Inhabitants of the said Parish for building a Chappel of Ease and
that the Persons named in the Petition may be appointed Commis-
sioners to lay out the same; And the Petition of the said Rector
Vestrymen and Churchwardens of S^t Johns Parish in Baltimore
County af^d praying an Additional Salary of Ten pounds may be

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