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time being to levy on the Taxable Inhabitants of the said County
a Sum of Money for the uses therein mentioned, and the other
Entituled a Supplementary Act to the Act Entituled an Act for the
Relief of Creditors in England against Bankrupts who have Imported
any Goods into this Province not accounted for both thus Endorsed.
By the Lower house of Assembly 15^th November 1753
Read the first and Second time by an Especial Order & 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

An Engrossed Bill from the Lower house by Mess.^rs Dulany and
Harrison Entituled An Act for Amending the Staple of Tobacco for,
preventing frauds in his Majestys Customs and for the Limitation of
officers fees thus subscribed

15 November 1753.

Read and Assented to by the Lower house of Assembly
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl Lo H.
Read and Assented to by this house & Ordered to be so Subscribed
Adjourned till to Morrow Morning ten of the Clock

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

Friday Morning i6th November 1753
This house met again according to Adjournment

Present as Yesterday
Three Engrossed Bills from the Lower house by Mess.^rs Bond
and Lee, viz^t a Bill Entituled an Act to cut of the Entail of Part
of a Tract of Land called Charley now lying in Charles and Prince
Georges Countys and to Entail Lands of Equal value in lieu thereof —
A Bill Entituled An Act to Repeal an Act Entituled an Act for the
Confirmation of Lands therein mentioned to Richard Bennett Esq.^r —
A Bill entituled An Act for the Vesting and Settling an Estate of
Inheritance in fee Simple of and in a Certain parcell or Lott of
Ground in the City of Annapolis containing One hundred and Twenty

November 16

feet in Length formerly by an Act of Assembly of this Province
Confirmed to Robert Gordon of the City of Annapolis Merchant on
Horatio Samuel Middleton and his heirs for ever, Severally thus
Subscribed

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