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

L. H. J.
Liber No. 47
May 24

Ordered, That the said Committee do peruse the Will of Col.
William Whittington, of Somerset County, relating to his Devise of
Lands, to be sold and appropriated for the Education of Youth, and
report the same to the House.

Ordered, That the Committee of Laws do prepare and bring in a
Bill for the Establishment of a Seminary of Learning.

Resolved, That this House will not take into Consideration any
new Business this Session, after Saturday the 25th Instant.
The House adjourns till 2 of the Clock Afternoon.

Post-Meridiem.

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The House met according to Adjournment.

Col. Hooper from the Committee of Laws, delivers to Mr. Speaker
a Bill entituled, An Act for granting Fees to the several Justices of
the County Courts, and for repealing that Part of the Act of Assem-
bly which grants an Allowance of 8o lbs. of Tobacco per Day to the
said Justices.

And, the Bill intituled, An Act to make it Penal to forge or
counterfeit the Bills of Credit of Pennsylvania, New-York, East or
West Jerseys, or the Three Lower Counties on Delaware, called
New-Castle, Kent, and Sussex, or to utter or tender the same in
Payment, within this Province, knowing them to be such; which
Bills were severally read the first Time, and ordered to lie on the
Table.
Col. Hooper, from the Committe of Laws, delivers to Mr. Speaker
a Bill entituled, An additional Supplementary Act to the Act enti-
tuled, An Act for amending the Staple of Tobacco, for preventing
Frauds in his Majesty's Customs, and for the Limitation of Officers
Fees; which was read the first Time, and ordered to lie on the
Table.
The House adjourns till the morrow Morning at 8 of the Clock.

May 25

Saturday, May 25, 1754.

The House met according to Adjournment, &c.
On reading the second Time the Bill entituled, An Act for grant-
ing Fees to the several Justices of the County Courts, &c. the Ques-
tion was put, Whether the following Amendments, viz. " That the
Justices of the several County Courts shall be allowed in the County
Levy, per Diem Fees, for Sitting in Court, and the Tax upon
Suitors be assessed in Tobacco, and applied to the Credit of the
County," shall be made to the Bill, or Not ? Resolved in the Negative.