462 Assembly Proceedings, May 8-May 30, 1754.

U. H. J.
Liber No. 34
May 29

By the Lower house of Assembly 29 May 1754
Read the first and Second Time by an Especial Order and Will
pass
Signed p Order M Macnemara Ct. Lo H.
Read the first time in this house and Ordered to lye on the Table.
Read the Petition of Sundry Inhabitants of S.^t Johns Parish in
Queen Anns County and of part of S.^t Pauls Parish in Talbot
County praying an Act may Pass at the death or the Removal
of the present Incumbant to Add that part of S.^t Pauls Parish which
lies in Talbot County to S.^t Johns Parish aforesaid Referred to the
Consideration of the Lower house & Sent by Benedict Calvert 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 with the Addition of Col Benjamin
Tasker

Read the Second Time the Bill Entituled an Act to enable the Jus-
tices of S.^t Marys County to levy a Quantity of Tobacco on the Tax-
able Inhabitants of King and Queen Parish in the said County for
the Purposes therein mentioned — The Bill Entituled an Additional
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 — The Bill Entituled an Act

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to make it Penal to Forge or Counterfeit the Bills of Credit of
Pensilvania New York East or West Jerseys or the three Lower
Counties on Delaware called Newcastle Kent and Sussex or to utter
or Tender the same in payment within this Province knowing them
to be Such — The Bill Ent.^d an Act for Building a Prison in Fred-
erick County and will Pass Sent to the Lower house by Col Tasker
Read the Petition of George Wilson and Mary Wilson of Kent
County Praying a Bill may be brought in Authorizing the Chan-
cellor of this Province to Grant a Lease to them for Twenty acres
of Land upon the return of a Writt of Ad Quod Damnum, Rejected
The following Message is brought from the Lower house by
Mess.^rs Traverse and Goldsborough
Whereas the Lords for Trade and Plantations by their Letter
to his Excellency the Governor of this Province dated the 18th Sep-
tember 1753. have Signified that his Majesty was pleased to grant
a Sum of Money for a present to the Six Nations of Indians and
that it was recommended to the Respective Governments to Send
Commissioners to the Place of Meeting to renew the Covenant
Chain with those Indians and to keep up a Friendship with them.
It is therefore Ordained by his Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esq.^r
Governor and the Upper and Lower houses of Assembly in general
Assembly convened that the Sum of five hundred pounds Current