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

U. H. J.
Liber No. 34
October 26

By the Lower house of Assembly 26 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 three of the Clock in the Afternoon

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

Saturday Morning 27 October 1753
This house met again according to Adjournment

Present as Yesterday
Adjourned till Monday Morning ten of the Clock

October 29

Monday Morning 29 October 1753
This house met again according to Adjournment
Present

The Honourable

Benjamin Tasker Esq.^r
Col George Plater
Col Charles Hammond
Samuel Chamberlain Esq.^r

Col Benjamin Tasker
Richard Lee Esq.^r
Benedict Calvert Esq.^r

Adjourned till three of the Clock in the Afternoon

p. 447

Eodem Die post Meridiem
This house met again according to Adjournment

Present as in the Morning with the Addition of Philip Thomas
Esquire
Read the Second Time the Bill Entituled an Act to impower the
Several Courts within this Province to Order Commissions for the
examination of Witnesses Residing beyond Sea, and for the more
Easy foreclosure of Mortgages, and will Pass with the words, or
Tobacco being incerted in the last line of the Second page between
the words, Monies & due, and in the fourth line of the last page
after the word, Monies put or Tobacco, Sent to the Lower house
by Richard Lee Esq^r
Read the second Time the Bill Entituled An Act empowering
the Incumbent and Vestrymen of S.^t Michaels Parish in Talbot