112 Assembly Proceedings, Oct. 2-Nov. 17, 1753.

U. H. J.
Liber No. 34
October 20

Saturday Morning 20 October 1753.
This house met again according to Adjournment

Present as Yesterday Except CoT Hammond
Mess.^rs Addison and Murdock from the Lower house Attend
with M^r John Hawkins a Member Ellected for Prince Georges
County (in the Room of M^r Turner Wootton who Since last Session
had Excepted of a Sheriffs Place) to See him Qualified who takes
the Several Oaths to the Government required by Law Repeats and
Subscribes the Abjuration and Test and then withdraws.
A Bill from the Lower house by Mess." Mackall & Gassaway
Entituled an Act to empower the Several Courts within this Prov-
ince to Order Commissions for the Examination of Witnesses
Residing beyond Sea and for the more Easy foreclosure of Mort-

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gages, thus Endorsed.
By the Lower house of Assembly 16 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 20 October 1753
Read the Second Time and will Pass
Signed p Order M Macnemara CT Lo H.
Read the first Time in this house and Ordered to lye on the Table
Read the Petition of William Wells and Rebecca his Wife of
Ann Arundel County Praying leave to bring in a Bill to Cutt off the
Entail of a Tract of Land called Charley and to entail Other Lands
in Lieu thereof Referred to the Consideration of the Lower house
and Sent by Benedict Calvert Esquire
A Bill from the Lower house by Mess.^rs Earle and Hyland En-
tituled An Act continuing an Act for Relieving the Inhabitants of
this Province from Some Agrievances in the Prosecution of Suits
at Law & for Continuing the Supplementary Act thereto; thus
Endorsed
By the Lower house of Assembly 16 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 19 October 1753
Read the second Time and 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 Monday Morning ten of the Clock