78 Assembly Proceedings, May 10-June 11, 1748.

L. H. J,
Liber No. 46
May 20

Charges of their Counties and parishes, ordered that the Committee
of Laws prepare and bring in a Bill accordingly. On Motion of a
member that Leave may be given to erect a warehouse on the Land
of M^r William Dent in Charles County, at the Expence of the Par-
ishioners of Durham parish; Leave is given: ordered that it be
inserted in a Bill to be prepared by the Committee of Laws for
erecting and altering Ware houses. M^r Hammond from the Com-
mittee of Laws delivers to M^r Speaker A Bill Entituled, An Act for
processioning Lands in order to perpetuate the Bounds thereof And
for other purposes therein mentioned; which was read the first time,
and ordered to lie on the Table.

Benedict Calvert Esq^r from the Upper House, delivers to M^r
Speaker a petition of the Rector, vestrymen, Church-wardens and
other Inhabitants of the upper Hundred of Shrewsbury parish, in
Kent County; and the petition of the Freeholders and other Inhabi-
tants on the Bay side, in Calvert County &c. Severally Indorsed,
By the upper House of Assembly referred to the Consideration
of the Lower House of Assembly, which petitions were severally
read here, and granted. On motion that a Warehouse may be erected
on M^r Llewellin's plantation on Wiccocomoco River, in S^t Mary's
County, Leave is given ordered that the same be inserted in a Bill
to be prepared by the Committee of Laws for erecting and altering
warehouses. Richard Lee Esq^r from the upper House delivers to
M^r Speaker the petition of Sundry Inhabitants of All-hallows parish
in Anne Arundel County; and the petition of the Inhabitants living
at or near the Head of South River; Severally Indorsed By the
Upper House of Assembly, referred to the Considerations of the
Lower House of Assembly, Col. Tasker from the Upper House
delivers to M^r Speaker the following Message, Viz. (see page 19)
The petition of the Inhabitants of Kent County Praying a Ware-
house to be erected on Worton Creek, was read and granted. The
House adjourned until Two of the Clock in the afternoon

Post Meridiem.

p. 765

The House met according to adjournment &c. on motion Re-
solved, that the Warehouse to be erected at Morgan's Creek, in
Kent County, by the Act Entituled An Act for the Amendment of
the Staple of Tobacco &c. be suppressed. The petition of The In-
habitants living at or near the head of South River, praying to alter
the Warehouse, mentioned in the Inspecting Law to be erected at
Macklefishe's Landing, was read and rejected.
On Motion Resolved, That the Warehouse at Barren Creek, in
Somerset County, be removed to the Landing formerly John Gillis'
Landing, and instead of Day Scott's Warehouse, that a Warehouse
be built near the Church at Greenhill Town, in Somerset County.