The Upper House. in

Read the Petition of Thomas Barckley a Languishing Prisoner

in Kent County Goal Praying Relief; Referred to the Consideration

of the Lower house of Assembly & Sent by Samuel Chamberlain
Esquire
Adjourned till three of the Clock in the Afternoon

U. H. J.
Liber No. 34

October 18

Eodem Die post Meridiem
This house met again according to Adjournment

Present as in the Morning
Adjourned till to Morrow Morning ten of the Clock

p. 440

Friday Morning 19 October 1753.
This house met again according to Adjournment

Present as Yesterday
Two Bills from the Lower house by Mess.^rs Goldsborough and
Edmonson One Entituled an Act to Oblige Garnishees to discover
Goods and Effects Attached in their hands and for other Purposes
therein mentioned — A Bill Entituled An Act for Reducing the Al-
lowances of the Members of the Upper and Lower houses of As-
sembly of this Province and Ascertaining the Publick Levy both
thus Endorsed.
By the Lower house of Assembly 10 October 1753.
Read the first Time and Ordered to lye on the Table
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl Lo H.
By the Lower house of Assembly 16 October 1753.
Read the second time & will pass.
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl Lo H.
Read the first time in this house and Ordered to lye on the Table
Adjourned till three of the Clock in the Afternoon

Eodem Die post Meridiem
This house met again according to Adjournment

Present as in the Morning
Mess.^rs Carroll and Gassaway from the Lower house Attend with
Doctor Alexander Hamilton a Member Ellected for the City of
Annapolis in the Room of Captain Robert Gordon deceased to See
him Qualified who takes the Several Oaths to the Government re-
quired by Law Repeats and Subscribes the Abjuration and Test and
then withdraws
Adjourned till to Morrow Morning ten of the Clock

October 19