The Upper House. 7

Tuesday Morning the 9th June 1752.
This house met again according to Adjournment

Present as Yesterday
A Bill from the Lower house by Mess^rs Waggaman and Govane
Ent.^d an Act to prevent disabled and Superannuated Slaves being
Set free or the Manumission of Slaves by any last Will & Testa-
ment, thus Endorsed
By the Lower house of Assembly 5^th June 1752
Read the first time and Ordered to lye on the Table
Signed p Order M Macnemara Ct Lo H.
By the Lower house of Assembly 9th June 1752.
Read the Second time & will pass
Signed p Order M Macnemara Ct Lo H.

Read the first time in this house & Ordered to lye on the Table
Adjourned till 3 of the Clock in the Afternoon

U. H. J.

Liber No. 34
June 9

Eodem Die post Meridiem
This House met again according to Adjournment

Present as in the Morning with the Addition of Philip Thomas
Esq.^r
Read the Petition of the Owners of Letts in Chester Town in
Kent County Praying that the Sum of Twenty Shillings a Piece
may be Levyed on the Owners of the Lotts in the said Town to
be laid out in procuring Proper fire Engines for the Use of the
said Town; and the Petition of Several of the Inhabitants of Kent
County praying the continuance of the Law for destroying Crows
Foxes and Squirrels in the said County; Referred to the Considera-
tion of the Lower house of Assembly & Sent by Rich^d Lee Esq.^r
Read the Petition of the Justices of Kent County Praying that
Hugh Wallis may be obliged to build a wharff & erect a Cran
Adjoyning to the Warehouse at the end of the Main Street in
Chester Town in the said County; The Petition of Sundry the
Inhabitants of Baltimore County Praying that thirty two acres of
Land lying on the West Part of Baltimore Town may be laid out
into Lotts and Added to the said Town; The Petition of the Free-
holders of King George and Pamunkie hundreds in the Lower parts
of King George Parish in Prince Georges & Charles Counties
Praying that all that part of King George Parish lying below
Piscattaway Branch may be erected into a Parish and that part of
Portobacco Parish may be Added thereto; The Petition of the
Freeholders of the Upper part of Portobacco Parish in Charles
County Praying that all that Part of the said Parish lying between
Mattawoman Main Branch and the Oldwomans Branch to the head

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