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L. H. J.
Liber No. 47
October 9
p. 268
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29th Day of September then next, vide Record Book of Laws, Page
129; and the same Session, an Act of Gauge and Tare was made,
Page 206; and that at a Session of Assembly, held the 17th Day of
July 1716, an Act for Gauge and Tare was made, as appears in the
same Book, Page 302; in all which there is a Consideration to the
respective Lords Proprietors for Land Rents.
Your Committee humbly conceive, that there could be no Rent
due upon the said Land called Hooper's Island, but from the Date
of the Patent thereof; and that the said Thomas Muir his causing the
said Roger Hooper to be distrained for the Sum aforesaid, was
Illegal, Grievous and Oppressive, but is humbly submitted to the
Consideration of your Honourable House.
Signed per Order, William Wilkins, Clerk.
Which was read and ordered to lie on the Table.
The House adjourns till 2 of the Clock Afternoon.
Post-Meridiem.
The House met according to Adjournment.
A Petition of Alexander Hamilton, Doctor of Physic, complaining
of an undue Return, made by the Aldermen of the City of Annapolis,
was preferred to this House; upon reading thereof,
Ordered, That the Petitioner do give Notice to George Steuart,
Esq; of this Petition having been preferred, and that this House will
proceed to take the same into Consideration, at the Bar of this House
on the morrow Morning, being the loth Instant, and that Lists of
the controverted Votes shall be mutually exchanged, between the said
Alexander Hamilton and George Steuart, with the particular Objec-
tion which they intend to insist upon, set against the Name of each
Person whose Vote they intend to dispute, and that such Lists shall
be respectively confined to such Voters, as were objected to at the
Time of their giving their respective Votes.
Col. Hooper, from the Committee of Laws, delivers to Mr. Speaker
a Bill, intituled, An Act for the Speedy Recovery of Small Debts
out of Court before one Justice of the Peace; and a Bill, intituled,
An Act for issuing Writs of Replevin out of the County Courts of
this Province; and a Bill, intituled, An Act to License Hawkers and
Pedlars.
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p. 269
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Mr. Charles Goldsborough, from the Committee of Laws, delivers
to Mr. Speaker a Bill, intituled, An Act continuing an Act intituled,
An Act to prevent the ill Practices of Sheriffs in the Collecting
and Payment of the Public and County Levies; and a Bill, intituled,
An Act continuing an Act intituled, An Act for the Gauge of Barrels
for Pork, Beef, Pitch, Tar, Turpentine, and Tare of Barrels, for
Flour, or Bread.
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