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

U. H. J.
Liber No. 36
Nov. 29

May it please your Honours
We herewith return you the Bill entitled an Act to prevent the
Navigation on Potowmac River Monocasey and great Conicocheage
Creeks being obstructed. It is represented to this House, that there is
at present no Mill Dam of any Kind on either Monocasey or great
Conicocheague Creek, except a Saw Mill Dam on Conicocheague,
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 Conicocheague, & the Builder erected it, not only without any

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Encouragement from our Laws in Being, but against Law, this House
thought Him very Tenderly dealt with by this Bill, in only being
obliged to make a sufficient Lock by the first Day of October next, in
which private Interest and public Convenience are intended, as far
as they can, to be reconciled We therefore hope that on reconsidering
the Matter, the same Reasons, that influenced this House, will induce
your Honours to wave your proposed Amendment.
Signed p Order MMacnemara Cl Lo Ho:

Read the second Time by especial Order the following Bills Viz.^t
A Bill entitled an Act to enable the Justices of St Marys County
Court to assess & levy on the Taxable Inhabitants of S^t Andrews
Parish a Quantity of Tobacco for building a Church & for other
Purposes therein mentioned.
A Bill entitled an Act to enable the Justices of St Marys County
Court to assess and levy on the Taxable Inhabitants of All Faiths
Parish a Quantity of Tobacco & for other Purposes therein men-
tioned.
A Bill entitled a Supplementary Act to the Act entitled an Act
relating to the Standard of English Weights & Measures.
A Bill entitled an Act for building a Vestry House at St Pauls
Church in Kent County
These four Bills passed and sent to the Lower House by Daniel
Dulany Esquire.
Read the second Time a Bill entitled an Act for issuing Writs of
Replevin out of the County Courts of this Province & will not pass,
so endorsed and sent by Daniel Dulany Esq:^r
The Bill entitled an Act for the Benefit of the Poor and the
Encouragement of Industry brought by Mess.^rs E: Gant and R..
Goldsborough with the following Message.

By the Lower House of Assembly Nov.^r 29. 1765

May it please Your Honours

This House have considered the Amendment, proposed by your
Honours, to the Bill entitled, an Act for the Benefit of the Poor
and Encouragement of Industry; and as we understand the Force