310 Assembly Proceedings, Feb. 23-May 22, 1756.

L. H. J.
Liber No. 48
March 1

Adjournment and Continuance of Talbot and Dorchester County
Courts; which was read the first and second Time by an especial
Order, and will pass; and was sent to the Upper House by M.^r Golds-
borough and M.^r Edmondson.
The House adjourns till 2 of the Clock Afternoon.

Post-Meridiem.

The House met according to Adjournment, &c.
M.^r Mills appeared in the House.
On Motion, Ordered, That M.^r Handy, M.^r Waggaman, Col. John
Henry, and Col. Scarborough, do enquire, Whether the Indians men-
tioned in an Act entituled, An Act to impower Commissioners to
appoint and cause to be laid out Three Thousand Acres of Land on
Broad-Creek in Somerset County, for the Use of the Nanticoke
Indians, so long as they shall occupy the same, do occupy the Lands
mentioned in the said Act, and, Whether they did ever desert and
leave the same, contrary to the Tenor of the said Act; and make
Report thereof to the House the next Session of Assembly.
Col. Tasker, from the Upper House, delivers to M.^r Speaker the
Bill entituled, An Act for the Adjournment and Continuance of
Talbot and Dorcester County Courts; indorsed, By the Upper House
of Assembly, 1^st March, 1756. Read the first and second Time
by especial Order, and will pass.
Signed p Order, J. Ross, Cl. Up. Ho.

Which Bill was read here, and passed for ingrossing.
The Order of the Day being read ;
In Pursuance of the Resolve of Yesterday, the House Resolved
into a Committee of the whole House, to consider of Way and Means
to raise a Sum of Money towards his Majesty's Service.
M.^r Speaker left the Chair.
M.^r Speaker re-assumed the Chair.
M.^r Lloyd, Chairman of the Committee of the whole House,
reported to M.^r Speaker, That the Committee had proceeded to take
into Consideration the Matter referred to them by the Honourable
House; but not having had Time to compleat the same, prays Leave
of the House, that the said Committee may sit again to proceed on
the said Affair.
On Consideration of the said Report, Resolved, That this House

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will, on the Morrow Morning, Resolve itself into a Committee of
the whole House, to consider of Ways and Means to raise a Sum of
Money towards his Majesty's Service.
On Motion, That an Address be prepared to his Excellency, request-
ing him to communicate to this House what Steps (if he hath been