266 Assembly Proceedings, October 4-November 26, 1763.

U. H. J.
Liber No. 36
Nov. 22

Tuesday Morning 22.^d November 1763
This House met again according to Adjournment

Present as yesterday

An Engrossed Bill from the Lower House by Mess:^rs Thomas &
Adams Entituled An Act to Prohibit raising of Swine and Geese in
Charles Town, in Charles County 22^d November 1763
An Engrossed Bill from the Lower House by Mess.^rs Magruder &
Baker Entituled An Act to confirm the Sale of certain Land, lying
in Eastern-Neck Island in Kent County, by Draper Lusby, and
Frances his Wife, Executrix of John Hynson, Deceased, to Matthew
Bryan
A Bill from the Lower House by Mess,,^rs Plater and Johnson,
Ent..^d An Act for laying and erecting a Town at Elk Ridge Landing
in Ann Arundel County thus Endorsed
By the Lower House of Assembly 18th. November 1763
Read the first time and ordered to lye on the Table
Signed p Order MMacnemara Clk. Lo. Ho.

By the Lower House of Assembly 22^d November 1763
Read the second time and will Pass
Signed p Order MMacnemara Clk. Lo. Ho.

Read the first time in this house and ordered to lye on the Table
Read the following Bills, One Entituled An Act for Preventing
the Importation of German and French Papists and Papists Priests

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and Jesuits into into this Province and of Irish Papists by Way of
Pensylvania and the Government of Newcastle Kent and Sussex on
Delaware and for encouraging Protestants to come in and settle
the Western Frontier

An Act to oblige Persons who Officiate as Clerks or Writers in
the Publick Offices to take the Oaths to the Government and for
the better Securing the Publick Records — An Act for the Equitable
payment of Money Debts and will not pass and Sent by Richard
Lee Esq.^r
Read the first and Second time by Especial Order the Bill En-
tituled An Act impowering the Justices of Charles County, to levy
on the Taxable Inhabitants of Port Tobacco Parish, in said County,
an Additional Sum, not exceeding Two pounds of Tobacco Per Poll,
Annually for the further Support of an Organist in the said Parish,
passed and Sent by Benedict Calvert Esq.^r
A Bill from the Lower House by Mess:^rs Murdock & Hall En-
tituled An Act for the Speedy payment of such Persons as have
been ordered to March to the Western Frontiers of this Province for