158 Assembly Proceedings, June 23- July 8, 1755.

L.H.J.
Liber No. 48
July 3

divulge, to the Prejudice of the said Committee, or any Member
thereof, but shall in all Things, as Clerk to the said Committee, well
and truly demean yourself, according to the best of your Knowledge.
So help you God.
Thomas Jennings.

The House adjourns till 2 of the Clock Afternoon.

Post-Meridiem.

The House met according to Adjournment, &c.
Mr. Williamson, and Mr. Hynson, have Leave of the House to go
home.
William Goldsborough, Esq; from the Upper House, delivers
to Mr. Speaker, the Bill entituled, An Act for securing the Western
Frontier of this Province, against the Depredations of the French
and their Indian Allies; and also for paying and maintaining
Couriers from Wills's-Creek to Annapolis, and back to Wills's
Creeks; indorsed, " By the Upper House of Assembly, July 3, 1755.
Read the second Time, and will not pass.
Signed per Order, J. Ross, Cl. Up. Ho."
And the following Mesage, viz.^t
By the Upper House of Assembly, July 3, 1755.

p. 119

[This message is printed in the Upper House Journal, pages
131-2.]

Benedict Calvert, Esq; from the Upper House, delivers to Mr.
Speaker, a Petition of Thomas Todd, a Petition of Jasper Hall,
and a Petition of Daniel Wells, all languishing Prisoners in Anne-
Arundel County Goal; a Petition of Benjamin Berry, a languishing
Prisoner in Prince-George's County Goal; and a Petition of Thomas
Reynolds, a languishing Prisoner in Frederick County Goal; and a
Petition of the Rector, Vestrymen, Church- Wardens of St. Anne's
Parish, in Anne-Arundel County; severally indorsed, By the Upper
House of Assembly, Referred to the Consideration of the Lower
House of Assembly."
The Petition of Thomas, Todd, Jasper Hall, Daniel Wells, Benja-
min Berry and Thomas Reynolds, languishing Prisoners, praying to
be released from Confinement, on surrendering up their whole Es-
tates, were here severally Read and Granted.
The Petition of the Rector, Vestrymen, and Church- Wardens of
St. Anne's Parish, in Anne Arundel County, was here Read, and Re-
ferred to the Consideration of next Session of Assembly.
Col. Tilghman, from the Committee of Laws, brings in, and deliv-
ers to Mr. Speaker, a Bill entituled, An Act for building a Church
in St. Mary's White Chapel Parish, in Dorchester County; which
was Read the first and second Time, by an especial Order, and will