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

U. H. J.
Liber No. 34
October 22

them to make an Exchange of Certain Lands therein mentioned
Read the Petition of Major George Bell of Frederick County Pray-
ing to be Relieved from Some Inconveniency by the Act Entituled
an Act for laying out and errecting a Town by the Name of George
at Rock Creek in the said County Referred to the Consideration of
the Lower house & Sent by Col. Hammond
Adjourned till to Morrow Morning Ten of the Clock

October 23

Tuesday Morning 23.^d October 1753.
This house met again according to Adjournment

Present as Yesterday

Mess.^rs Hooper and Goldsborough from the Lower house Attend
with Mess.^rs Traverse and Gray to Members Ellected for Dor-
chester County, in order to See them Qualified who takes the several
Oaths to the Government Required by Law Repeat and Subscribe
the Abjuration and Test and then withdraw

p. 443

Read the Second Time the Bill Entituled An Act for Tryal of all
matters of fact in the Several Counties where they have Arisen
or shall Arise, and will pass with the following Amendments the
words, and not elsewhere, in the 12^th Line of the first Page to be
omitted in the 19.th Line of the third Page, instead of four, put, five,
in the 15^th Line of the 5^th Page instead of Six, put, Seven, leave
out the first Clause in Page 6.^th and instead thereof Insert the
following one, And be It enacted by the Authority Advice and
Consent af.^d that the Justices of Nisi prius and Goal Delivery shall
in all Civil Cases be Tryed before them where any Person Con-
cerned shall desire the same allow and direct Special Verdicts to be
found, in the 19th Line of the same Page after the word Terminer.
put or during their Sitting, in the 17 line of the 7 Page between
the word, on, and, Twenty, in the 18th Line of Same Page but,
these words, or delivered to the Defendant or left at his or her last
Place of abode, after the word, notwithstanding, in the Tenth Page
incert the following Clause, And whereas Since last Provincial Court
Persons have been Comitted for Crimes and misdemeaneours, &
Witnesses have been bound over to Testifie against such Persons at
the next Provincial Court; Sent to the Lower house by CoT George
Plater
Read the Petition of the Rector Vestrymen & Churchwardens
and Other parishioners of S.^t Johns Parish in Baltimore County
Praying that 70000 pounds of Tobacco may be levied on the Tax-
able Inhabitants of the said County towards finishing a Chappel in
the said Parish — The Petition of Sundry the Inhabitants of Prince
Georges County Praying a Sum may be Levied on the Taxable