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Friday Morning 9 November 1753.
This house met again according to Adjournment
Present as Yesterday
Twenty Engrossed Bills from the Lower house by Mess.rs Mackall
and Hamilton viz A Bill Entituled an Act for Tryal of all Matters
of Fact in the Several Countys where they have Arisen or shall
Arise — A Bill Ent.d an Act for the Advancement of Justice — A
Bill Entituled An Act Continuing an Act Entituled an Act for the
Gauge of Barrels for Pork Beef Pitch Tar Turpentine and Tare of
Barrels for flour and Bread — A Bill Entituled an Act continuing an
Act Entituled an Act for Remedy of Some Evils relating to Ser-
vants — A Bill Entituled an Act continuing an Act Ent.d an Act to
prevent the ill practices of Sheriffs in the Collecting & Payment of
the publick & -County levies — A Bill Entituled An Act Continuing
an Act Entituled a supplementary Act to the Act Entituled An Act
Ascertaining the height of Fences to prevent the evil occasioned by
the Multitudes of Horses and restraining Horse Rangers within this
Province and to redress the great evil accruing to this Province by
the Multiplicity of useless Horses Mares and Colts that run in the
woods — A Bill Entituled An Act continuing an Act Entituled an
Act for Relieving the Inhabitants of this Province from Some
agreivances in the Prosecution of Suits at Law and for continuing
the Supplementary Act thereto, A Bill Entituled an Act to prevent
Masters of Ships and Vessels from Clandestinly Carrying Servants
or Slaves or persons Indebted out of this Province — A Bill Ent.d
an Act to prevent persons from Secreting Flats Boats or Other
Vessels drove by Stress of Weather or otherwise from Landings or
Moorings — A Bill Entituled An Act for the Relief of Thomas Barck-
ley a languishing Prisoner in Kent County Goal a Bill Entituled a
supplementary Act to the Act Entituled an Act to enable the Jus-
tices of Charles County to levy a sum of Tobacco on the Taxable
Inhabitants of Porttobacco Parish in the said County for the pur-
poses therein mentioned — A Bill Entit.d An Act for the Speedy
Recovery of Small debts out of Court before one Justice of the
peace — A Bill Entituled an Act to impower the Several Courts within
this Province to Order Commissions for the Examination of Wit-
nesses residing beyond Sea and for the more Easy forclosure of
Mortgages — A Bill entituled An Act impowering the Incumbent &
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