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

U. H. J.
Liber No. 34
May 30

Read and assented to by this house and Ordered to be so Sub-
scribed
The Several Paper Bills passed both houses this Session are Sent
to the Lower house by Samuel Chamberlain Esq.^r
Mess.™ Harrison and Hamilton from the Lower house acquaint
his Excellency that their house hath no business before them
Samuel Chamberlain Esq.^r is Sent to the Lower house to Acquaint
the Speaker that his Excellency his immediate attendance with the

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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
Excellency the following Bills viz.^t
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.
An Act to make it Penal to Forge or Counterfeit the Bills of
Credit of Pensilvania New York East or West Jersey or the three
Lower Counties on Delaware called Newcastle Kent and Sussex or
tender the same in payment within this Province knowing them to
be such
An Act for Building a Prison in Frederick County.
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

An Act impowering the Rector Vestryment & Churchwardens of

Port Tobacco Parish in Charles County for the Time being to Pur-
chase a Quantity not exceeding two acres of Land and thereon to
build a Chappel of Ease in the said Parish and to impower the Jus-
tices of the said County to levy on the Taxable Inhabitants of the
said Parish a Quantity of Tobacco for the Uses therein mentioned
A Supplementary Act to an Act Entituled an Act for the Speedy
and Effectual Publication of the Laws of this Province and for the
Encouragement of Jonas Green of the City of Annapolis Printer
All which his Excellency Passed into Laws in the usual form by
Sealling them with the Right honourable the Lord Proprietary his
Great Seal at Arms and Subscribing them on behalf of the Right
honourable 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
As I had persuaded myself that no Person who has a regard for
the welfare of this or the Neighbouring Provinces, could hear with-
out Emotion of the designs and Attempts of our Enemies to make
themselves Masters of his Majestys Territories on this Continant,