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Read the Second Time the Bill Entituled an Act impowering the
Rectors Vestrymen and Churchwardens of Port Tobacco Parish in
Charles County for the Time being to purchase a Quantity not ex-
ceeding Two Acres of Land & thereon to build a Chapel of Ease in
the said Parish and to impower the Justices of the said County to
levy on the Taxable Inhabitants of the said Parish a quantity of
Tobacco for the Uses therein mentioned and will pass Sent to the
Lower house by Richard Lee Esq.r
Four engrossed Bills from the Lower house by Mess.rs Hamilton
and Williamson, 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 Limita-
tion of Officers Fees. The Bill entituled an Act 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 tender the Same in payment
within this Province knowing them to be such — The Bill Entituled an
Act for Building a Prison in Frederick County — and the Bill Enti-
tuled an Act to enable the Justices of S.t Marys County to levy a quan-
tity of Tobacco on the Taxable Inhabitants of King and Queen Parish
in said County for the purposes therein mentioned, Severally thus
Subscribed
30 May 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.
Read the Petition of Several Insolvent Debtors, and Rejected
The following Message is Sent to the Lower house with the
Journal of Accounts by Col Tasker
By the Upper house of Assembly 30 May 1754
Gentlemen
We herewith Return the Journal of Accounts in which we observe
there is no Allowance made to Thomas Bladen Esq.r for the Money
disbursed by him in building the house for a Governor, nor to the
Members of the Council for their attendance as a Council of State
nor to the Clerk of the Council for his yearly Salary as Clerk
We hope therefore you will Consider these Matters in such a
manner as. the Journal may pass.
Signed p Order John Ross Cl Up H.
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