house desire to withdraw to acquaint their house therewith — And in
the Afternoon the Conferees met again and delivered the Conferees
of the Lower house the following Answer in writing viz. In answer
to what you have delivered to us by the direction of your house We
are Instructed by the Upper house to Say that by our Second Amend-
ment of the Bill for his Majestys Service all the purposes of that
Service will be effectually Answered than by the Bill as it was Sent
up from your house and Re f err you to the Reasons We gave you
yesterday in Answer to your Objections which as you have not been
pleased to Confute we think Sufficient to Support our Amendment
and therefore cannot Recede from it upon the force of those Ob-
jections. —
Upon Reading whereof the Conferees of the Lower house declared
that their house would not agree thereto and therefore they could
not Join in a Report Whereupon the Conference Ended.
All which is Submitted to the Consideration of the house
Signed p Order of the Conferees of the Upper house
W.m Wilkins Clk
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
Read the Second time the Bill Entituled an Act for issuing Writts
of Replevin out of the County Courts within this Province — and the
Bill entituled An Act for the Security of his Majestys Dominion and
to prevent the growth of Popery within this Province and will not
pass, Sent to the Lower house by Samuel Chamberlain Esq.r
Two Engrossed Bills from the Lower house by Mess.rs Hamilton
and Williamson. The Bill Entituled an Act impowering the Rector
Vestrymen and Churchwardens of Port Tobacco Parish in Charles
County for the Time being to purchase a Quantity not Exceeding
two acres of Land and thereon to build a Chappel 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 — The Bill Entituled a Supplementary Act
to an Act entituled an Act for the Speedy & Effectual Publication of
the Laws of this Province and for the Encouragement of Jonas
Green of the City of Annapolis Printer both thus Subscribed
30th May 1754
Read and Assented to by the Lower House of Assembly
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl Lo H.
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