The Upper House. 191

Thursday Morning 15. Dec. 1757.
This House met again according to Adjournment.

Present as Yesterday
An engrossed Bill from the Lower House by Mess.^rs Hynson,
and Hanson entituled, An Act continuing an Act entituled An Act for
the speedy and effectual Publication of the Laws of this Province

U. H. J.
Liber No. 35
Dec. 15

and for the Encouragement of Jonas Green of the City of Annapolis
Printer thus endorsed

15. Dec. 1757. Read and assented to by the Lower House of As-
sembly.
Signed p. Order MMacnemara Cl. Lo. Ho :

Read and assented to by this House, and ordered to be so sub-
scribed
The Bill prepared in this House, intitled, a supplementary Act
to the Act, intitled, An Act for his Majesty's Service, and further
Defence and Security of this Province, is brought from the Lower
House by Mess.™ Worthington and Sadler thus endorsed.
By the Lower House of Assembly 14. Dec. 1757.
Read the first Time and ordered to lye on the Table
Signed p. Order M Macnemara Cl. Lo. Ho :

and the following Message.
By the Lower House of Assembly 15^th Dec. 1757
May it please your Honors
We conceive the Bill herewith sent to be a Money Bill as it alters
the Appropriation of public Money, and have therefore returned it
without giving it a second Reading
As the Business before this House is completed and the Season so
far advanced that the Severity of the Weather may probably in-
commode us greatly in returning to our respective Homes, we must
request your Honours will dispatch what Business lies before you
that a speedy End may be put to this Session
Signed p. Order M Macnemara Cl Lo Ho

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

The following Message is sent to the Lower House by Col : Ben-
jamin Tasker
By the upper House of Assembly 14 : Dec.^r 1757.

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