192 Assembly Proceedings, September 25-November 2, 1770.

U. H. J.
Liber No. 36
Oct. 25

Frederick Beckerer, a Prisoner in Baltimore County Goal, so En-
dorsed and Sent by John Beale Bordley Esquire.

Mess:^rs Steele and Buchanan bring up the following Engrossed
Bills — Read and Assented to by the Lower House of Assembly.

A Bill entituled An Act to enable the Justices of Dorchester
County Court, to Assess and Levy on the Taxable Inhabitants of
the said County a Quantity of Tobacco for the Purpose of Building
a Court House.

A Bill entituled An Act to Repeal part of an Act to encourage
the Destroying of Wolves Crows and Squirrels.

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A Bill entituled An Additional Supplementary Act to the Act
entituled An Act for Erecting a New Parish in Kent County, called
Chester Parish, and for Building a Parish Church, and enlarging a
Chaple of Ease within the said Parish.

These three Bills were Read and Assented to by this House, and
ordered to be so Subscribed, the Paper Bills So Endorsed Sent by
Daniel Dulany Esq.^r

Read, agreeable to the Order of the Day the Petitions of sundry
Inhabitants of Queen Anns County for and against the Removal
of the Court House of said County, and after Examining sundry
Evidences the Consideration thereof was Postponed until the
Afternoon.

Adjourned until three of the Clock in the Afternoon.

Eodem Die Post Meridiem.
The House met again according to Adjournment.

Present as in the Morning.

The House Proceeded to Examine Evidences, and to hear Coun-
cil on the Petitions relating to the Removal of Queen Anns County
Court House, the further Consideration whereof is Postponed until
to Morrow Morning.
Adjourned until to Morrow Morning 10 of the Clock.

Oct. 26

Friday Morning 26:^th October 1770.
The House met again according to Adjournment.

Present as Yesterday —
Read, and referred to the Consideration of the Lower House
of Assembly, the Petition of Samuel Smith, a Prisoner in Ann
Arundel County Goal — So Endorsed and Sent by William Hayward
Esquire —
Read, and referred to the Consideration of the Lower House