The Upper House. 9

By the Lower house of Assembly 111^th June 1752
Read the Second time and will pass
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl Lo H.
Read the first Time in this House and Ordered to lye on the
Table
Adjourned till 3 of the Clock in the Afternoon

Eodem Die post Meridiem
This house met again according to Adjournment

Present as in the Morning

Read the Petition of the Rector Vestrymen and Churchwardens
of the Parish of S^t James's in Ann Arundel County Praying the
bounds may be Settled between their Parish and the Parish of
Alhallows. Rejected
Adjourned till to morrow morning ten of the Clock

U. H. J.

Liber No. 34
June 11

Friday Morning 12 June 1752.
This House met again according to Adjournment

Present as Yesterday Except Col Lloyd Col Hammond & Philip
Thomas Esq.^r
Read the Petition of Nathan Hammond Sheriff of Ann Arundel
County Praying a wall may be brought in to Raise the Walls of the
Publick Prison four or five feet higher than they are at present;
and the Petition of the Rector Vestrymen and Churchwardens and
others Inhabitants of S^t Johns Parish in Baltimore County Praying
leave to bring in a Bill to Assess the Parishioners of the said Parish
with a Sum of Current Money to build a Chappel of Ease and

June 12

other purposes therein mentioned; Referred to the Consideration of
the Lower house and Sent by Samuel Chamberlain Esq.^r
Read the Second time the Bill Entituled an Act to prevent dis-
abled and Superannuated Slaves being Set free or the Manumission
of Slaves by any Last Will and Testament and will Pass with the
following Amendments, the words, from and after the first day of
September next, to be left out, in the 12^th Line of the 3^d Page
between the words, that, & such, insert the following words, such
Deed and writing be not in prejudice of Creditors and that, Sent
to the Lower house by Edmund Jenings Esq.^r
Two Bills from the Lower house by Mess^rs Harrison and Ridgley
One Entituled an Act impowering the Justices of the County Courts
within this Province to lay and assess on the Taxable Inhabitants
of their Countys such necessary Charges as have arisen or shall
arise on the Special Commissions of Oyer and Terminer and Goal

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