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

L. H. J.
Liber No. 47
October 6

On motion, Leave given, to bring in a Bill, To direct the Recording
of all Conveyances hereafter: Ordered, That the Committee of Laws
do prepare and bring in a Bill accordingly.
The house adjourns till Monday Morning 9 of the Clock.

October 8
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Monday Morning, October 8, 1753.

The House met according to Adjournment, &c. all appeared as on
Saturday, except Mr. Oldham, Mr. Magruder, and Mr. Reynolds.
The House adjourns till the morrow Morning 9 of the Clock.

October o

Tuesday Morning, October 9, 1753.

The House met according to Adjournment, &c.
Mr. Magruder, Mr. Pearce, and Mr. Tillotson, appeared in the
House,
Col. Hooper from the Committee of Grievances, delivers to Mr.
Speaker the following Report; viz.
By the Committee of Grievances, and Courts of Justice, October 6,

1753.
On Complaint made to your Committee, by Mr. Roger Hooper, of
Dorchester County, against Thomas Muir, Receiver of his Lord-
ship's Quit-Rents there, it appears as follows; viz.
That Henry Hooper, of Dorchester County, Gentleman, deceased,
made his last Will and Testament, bearing Date the 20th Day of
March 1720, and among other Matters therein, devised unto his two
Sons, Thomas and John Hooper, in Tail, the Lower Part of Hooper'?
Island, bounded on the West, with Chesapeak Bay, and on the South,
with Hooper's Streights, and on the East, with Hunger River, and on
the North, with Thoroughfare Creek; to be equally divided between
them; which, upon Examination, your Committee find to contain 574
Acres: And the said Henry Hooper, by the said Will, devised the
Remainder of the said Hooper's Island, to his Son Roger Hooper, in
Tail, which Part we find to be 1766 Acres; the whole Tract, called
Hooper's Island, containing 2340 Acres, as by the Patent thereof,
bearing Date the I5th Day of July 1738, granted to Roger, Thomas,
and John Hooper, appears.
Your Committee likewise find, that the said Henry Hooper, in his
Life Time, made a Resurvey of sundry Tracts of Land, which com-
posed the said Hooper's Island, the Certificate of which and on which
the above Patent is founded, bears Date the 2d Day of October 1714,
which lay in the Land Office unpatented for some Time after, when
the Widow and Executrix paid his Lordship's Agent all the
Requisites, whereupon the said Patent issued.