186 Assembly Proceedings, November 1-December 20, 1765.

L. H. J.
Liber No. 52
Nov. 29

The Bill Entitled a Supplementary Act to the Act Entitled An
Act relating to the Standard of English Weights and Measures was
read the Second Time and will pass and was sent to the Upper House
by M^r Gibson and Capt.ⁿ Cockey Deye

M.^r J Hall brings in and delivers to M^r Speaker the following
Report Viz

By the Committee appointed by the Hon.^ble Lower House of
Assembly to enquire into the Allegations and Facts contained in the
Petition of the Inhitants of Baltimore Town in Baltimore County
Your Committee pursuant to the Order and Appointm.^t of y^r
Hon.^ble House have enquired into the sev' Facts & Allegations con-
tained in the s.^d petition & find from the Information of a Member
of the Hon.^ble House that a Market House has been built & from a
Sight of the Lease in the said petition mentioned they find that it
has been made by the said Thomas Harrison in the petition men-
tioned to William Lyon Nicholas Ruxton Gay John Moale and An-
drew Buchanan as to a Majority of the Com.^rs of the s.^d Baltimore
Town and we also find that the Lease appears to have been duly
executed and acknowledged but does not appar to be recorded Your
Committee also find upon looking into the several Acts of Assembly
made for the further Enlargement of the said Baltimore Town that
Com.^rs were appointed with a power to continue the Succession for
the purposes of making Regulations on certain Occasions and recov-
ering Claims that might arise in Consequence of those Regulations
but it does not appear that they are a Body Corporate with a Suff.^t
Capacity to take a Lease for the Use of the s.^d Town
All which is humbly submitted to the Consideration of the Hon.^ble
House
Signed p Order John Duckett Jun.^r Clerk

Which was read the first Time and Ordered to lye on the Table

On reading the foll^g Message Viz
By the Lower House of Assembly Nov.^r 29. 1765
May it please Y^r H.^rs
We herewith return you the Bill Entitled An Act to prevent the
Navigation on Patowmack River Monockasy and great Conoco-

p. 296

cheague Creeks being Obstructed. It is represented to this House
that there is at present no Mill Dam of any Kind on either Monokasy
or Great Conococheague Creek except a Saw Mill Dam on Cono-
cocheague near its Mouth and that the Builder of that Dam was by
the Erection of it a Trespasser on the property of another as that
Dam if suffered to remain in its present State will entirely prevent
Navigation on Conococheague and the Builder erected it not only
without any Encouragement from our Laws in Being but against