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

U. H. J.
Liber No. 36
Oct. 30

All which is Submitted to the Consideration of both Houses of
Assembly this 29:^th Day of October 1770.

Benedict Calvert
Walter Dulany
Brice T B Worthington
Thomas Ringgold
Charles Grahame
John Eden
Young Parran
Thomas Contee
Read and rejected the Petition of Thomas Sligh.
Read, and Referred to the Consideration of the Lower House of
Assembly, the Petition of Sundry Inhabitants of Somerset County
for laying out a Road through a Swamp — So Endorsed and Sent
by John Ridout Esquire —

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This House having resumed the Consideration of the Petition
of Edward Tilghman Esq.^r and others. Referred the same to the
Lower House of Assembly So Endorsed and Sent by William Fitz-
hugh Esq.^r
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.

Mess.^rs Gant and Beall bring up a Bill entituled An Act to continue
the Power of Inspectors, and for other purposes therein mentioned —
Read the first and Second time in the Lower House and will pass.

Mess.^rs Deye and Ware bring up a Bill entituled, An Act to enable
the Commissioners for Emitting Bills of Credit to pay to John
Duckett, William Mills, and John Peacock the Sums of Money
therein mentioned, Read the first and Second time in the Lower
House and will Pass. These two Bills were Read the first time in
this House and ordered to lie on the Table.

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

A Bill entituled An Act to remedy a Defect in the Acknowledgment
of a Conveyance from Josias Connant to William Thornton —

A Bill entituled An Act to divide Saint Johns Parish in Baltimore
County.
A Bill entituled An Act to invest Isaac Perkins with an exclusive
Privilege and Benefit of making and Selling a Machine for Thresh-
ing of Wheat, on a Model by him invented.
These Bills were Read and Assented to by this House, and ordered