404 Assembly Proceedings, Feb. 26-Mar. 9, 1754.

U. H. J.
Liber No. 34

p. 486
March 8

mentioned and will pass Sent to the Lower house by Colonel Lloyd
The Engrossed Bill is brought from the Lower House by Mess.™
Hawkins and Falconar thus Subscribed

8th March 1754
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 and Ordered to be so Sub-
scribed. The paper Bill Endorsed is Sent to the Lower house by
Richard Lee Esq.^r
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
Adjourned till to Morrow Morning ten of the Clock

March o.

Saturday Morning 9th March 1754
This house met again according to Adjournment

Present as Yesterday with the Addition of Col. Hammond.
George Plater Esq.^r is Sent to the Lower house to acquaint the
Speaker that his Excellency requires his immediate Attendance with
the Lower house in the Upper House to See the Laws passed both
houses this Session Receive the assent
The Lower house attend and by their Speaker present to his Excel-
lency the two following Bills viz.^t
A Supplementary Act to the Act entituled an Act for Amending
the Staple of Tobacco for preventing Frauds in his Majestys Customs
and for the Limitation of Officers fees
An Act impowering the Justices of Frederick County Court to
Levy on the Taxable Inhabitants of the said County a Sum of Cur-
rent Money for the uses therein mentioned
Both which his Excellency passed into Laws in the usual form
by Sealing them with the Right honourable the Lord Proprietarys
great Seal at Arms and Subscribing on behalf of the Right Honour-
able the Lord Proprietary of this Province I will this be a Law
After which his Excellency was pleased to Conclude this Session
with the following Speech.
Gentlemen of the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly
I cannot sufficiently express to you my great Concern at our having
put the Country to a very considerable Expence without doing the
Business, which I conceived duty prudence and good Policy obliged