Introduction. xxxi

Houses of Correction, in all the Counties, would not give great Relief to the
Inhabitants in the annual Levies, afford more regular and better applied Pro-
vision for the Poor, check the Disorders committed by common Beggars &
idle Vagabonds, and lay a Foundation for useful Industry" (pp. 49-50, 156,
157). Later at this session Prince George's County joined the other three
counties in petitioning for the erection of a workhouse, and also for the
rebuilding of its prison (pp. 78, 172). The Lower House laid the matter on the
table and no further action seems to have been taken upon it at this session. It is
to be noted, however, that at the 1768 session an act was passed appointing
trustees of the poor in Anne Arundel, Prince George's, Worcester, Frederick,
and Talbot counties, with power to make regulations for the care of the poor,
and for the punishment of vagrants, beggars, and vagabonds, and authorizing
a poll tax of twenty pounds of tobacco in these counties for the erection of
almshouses and work-houses (Hanson's Laws of Maryland made since
MDCCLXIII; 1787; acts of 1768, chapter xxvix). At the 1765 session Colonel
Edward Tilghman did not reintroduce the remarkable bill which had been
brought forward by him and had failed of passage at the October-November,
1763, session, obliging "county pensioners to wear badges", doubtless to pre-
vent them from imposing upon private charity (Arch. Md. LVIII; xxxv).

Baltimore Town at this session secured legislation both for the enlargement
of the town and to enable it to lease land for a market. Cornelius Howard,
the owner of land adjoining Baltimore Town on the south and west, and
sundry inhabitants of the town petitioned the Assembly for authority to have
added to the town a tract of thirty-five acres belonging to him (pp. 44, 263).
The petition was referred by the Upper House to the lower chamber, and
resulted in the passage by both houses of an act for the extension of the town
to the southwest (pp. 142, 176, 177, 179, 58). Under this act "for the further
enlargement of Baltimore Town" the commissioners of the town were ordered
to have these thirty-five acres surveyed and laid out into lots and streets at
the expense of Cornelius Howard, this addition to be thereafter esteemed as
part of the town (p. 263). It was long known as Howard's Addition, and
was an addition to the western and southwestern portion of the original Balti-
more Town. It was of irregular shape, and lay in a general way within the
bounds of what are now south Charles Street on the east, Liberty Street on
the west, Barre Street on the south, and Saratoga Street on the north. It is
of interest that although an act for the enlargement of Baltimore Town was
of public importance, it was classed with private acts in that fees or taxes were
paid in both houses by Howard, £8 to the Speaker and £4 to the clerk of the
Lower House and similar fees to the officers of the Upper House (p. 250).
Cornelius Howard was the father of General John Eager Howard, one of the
most extensive owners of land in what is now Baltimore, and one of its most
conspicuous and public-spirited citizens.

The commissioners of Baltimore Town had leased in 1763 from Thomas
Harrison (after whom Harrison Street is named) a lot of land at the north-
west corner of Baltimore and Gay streets and had erected a town market upon
it by public subscription. It was found that the lease was legally defective