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couragement of Jonas Green of the City of Annapolis Printer passed
and sent to the Lower house by Richard Lee Esq :^r
Read the second time the Bill Entituled a further Supplementary
Act to an Act Entituled an Act for Quieting Possessions enrolling
Conveyances and Securing the Estates of Purchasers and will pass
with the following Amendments leave out the first 16 lines in the
Bill and to the word af.^d in the 17^th line and insert the following
words

Whereas no other than Deeds of Bargain and Sale are Comprized
within the Act of Assembly for Quieting Possessions Enrolling Con-
veyances and Securing the Estates of Purchasers Be it therefore
Enacted by the Righ honourable the Lord Proprietary by and with
the Advice and Consent of his Lordships Governor and the Upper
and Lower houses of Assembly and the Authority of the same sent
to the Lower house by Benedict Calvert Esq.^r
Adjourned till three of the Clock in the Afternoon

Eodem Die Post Meridiem
This house met again according to Adjournment
Present as in the Morning
A Message from the Lower house by Mess:^rs Goldsborough &
Gassaway
By the Lower house of Assembly May 20^th 1756
May it Please your Honours
This house hath appointed Philip Hammond Esq^r Cap^t John
Gassaway M^r Walter Dulany M.^r John Goldsborough M :^r Mathew
Tilghman and M^r Robert Lloyd as a Committee of this house to
meet and apportion the Publick Levies and desire to know what
Members your Honours will please to Nominate to Join them in
the said Committee that the Bill now preparing for that purpose
may be filled up
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl: Lo: Ho :

The following Message is sent to the Lower house by Rich^d
Lee Esq^r
By the Upper house of Assembly 20:^th May 1756

Gentlemen

U. H. J.
Liber No. 35
May 20

This house hath appointed Col^o Charles Hammond Samuel
Chamberlaine and Philip Thomas Esq:^r Col:^o Benjamin Tasker
Richard Lee and Benedict Calvert Esq :^rs to Join the Members named
by your house in a Committee to meet and apportion the Publick
Levies
Signed p Order John Ross Cl: up: Ho :

A Bill from the Lower house by Mess:^rs Earle and Bracco En-
tituled an Act for preventing all Retailers of Liquors from Selling
in small Quantities thus Endorsed

p. no