12 Assembly Proceedings, June 3-23, 1752.

U. H. J.
Liber No. 34
June 15

Read the first time in this house and Ordered to lye on the Table
Two Bills from the Lower house by Mess^rs Bond & Gresham
One Entituled an Act for Relief of Such Persons as cannot find
Surety for their appearance to Testify as a Witness against any
Person arrested accused or prosecutted for any Criminal Matter and
an Act Entituled an Act Continuing Entituled an Act continuing
an Act Entituled an Act for the Speedy and Effectual Publication
of the Laws of this Province and for the Encouragement of Jonas
Green of the City of Annapolis Printer, both thus Endorsed.
By the Lower house of Assembly 13 June 1752
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 15 June 1752
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 to Morrow Morning ten of the Clock

June 16

Tuesday Morning i6th June 1752.
This house met again according to Adjournment

Present as Yesterday with the Addition of Col Charles Hammond
Read the Second time the Bill Entituled an Act to License Hawk-
ers Pedlars and Petty Chapmen, and will pass, with the following
Amendments, the words, five, in the Eighth Line of Second Page
being made, Ten, instead of the words, Such Suit or Prosecution in
3^d line of the 4^th Page, put, the, fact Charged, instead of the words,
to the Clerk of the Council for the Time being who is, put, the
Treasurer or Treasurers for the Time being who are, in the 2^d Line
of the 3^d Page instead of the words, to be applyed toward defraying
the Charge of the County where such prosecution shall be had, put,
to his Lordship for Support of Government, in the 6^th Line of the
Last Page instead of the words, according to the directions of the
General Assembly of this Province for defraying the Publick Ex-
pence thereof put, to be paid to his Lordship his heirs and Suc-
cessors for Support of Government; Sent to the Lower house by

p. 415

Samuel Chamberlaine Esq.^r
Three Bills from the Lower house by Mess^rs Murdock & Barnes
One Entituled an Explanatory to the Act Entituled an Act for the
Ease of the Inhabitants of this Province in examining Evidences
relating to the bounds of Lands and in the Manner of obtaining
Injunctions; An Additional and Supplementary Act to the Act
Entituled an Act for the better Administration of Justice in Testa-
mentary Affairs granting Administrations Recovery of Legacies