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Mess :rs Thomas and Smallwood bring up a Bill entituled An Act
to impose a further Duty on Negroes imported into this Province,
and for the better Support of County Schools —
Mess.™ Eden and Thomas bring up a Bill entituled, An Act to
remedy a Defect in the Acknowledgment of a Conveyance from
Josiah Connant to William Thornton.
Mess :rs John Hall and seven other Lawyers bring up a Bill en-
tituled An Act to Ease the Inhabitants of this Province in the Pay-
ment of Attorneys Fees —
These four Bills were Read the first and Second time in the
Lower House and will Pass
Mess.rs Contee and Beall bring up an Engrossed Bill entituled An
Act for the Building a Parish Church in Queen Anns Parish, in
Prince Georges County — Read and Assented to by the Lower House
of Assembly, which was Read and Assented to by this House, and
ordered to be so Subscribed, the Paper Bill so Endorsed Sent by
William Fitzhugh Esq.r
Read the Second time in this House, a Bill entituled A Supple-
mentary Act to the Act entituled An Act to prevent disabled and
Superanuated Slaves being set free, or the Manumission of Slaves,
by any last Will or Testament and will pass — so Endorsed and Sent
by John Beale Bordley Esq.r
Read the first and Second time, by an especial Order in this House,
and will pass the three following Bills —
A Bill entituled An Act to invest Isaac Perkins with an exclusive
Privilege and Benefit of making and selling a Machine for Threshing
of Wheat, on a Model by him invented.
A Bill entituled An Act to remedy a Defect in the Acknowledge-
ment of a Conveyance from Josiah Connant to William Thornton.
A Bill entituled An Act to divide Saint Johns Parish in Baltimore
County.
These Bills were severally Endorsed and sent to the Lower House
by [William Fitzhugh] .
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