20 Assembly Proceedings, November 17-December 20, 1769.

U. H. J.
Liber No. 36
Dec. 14

Mess.^rs Edward Tilghman and Wright bring up a Bill, Entitled a
Supplementary Act to the Act entitled an Act for laying out anew
and Settling and ascertaining the future Bounds and Limits of Saint
Lukes, Christs Church, and Saint John's Parishe's in Queen Anns
County, and Saint Pauls Parish, lying partly in Queen Ann's, and
partly in Talbot Counties — Read the first and Second time in the
Lower House and will Pass — Read the first and Second time by, an
Especial Order, in this House, and will Pass — So Endorsed and Sent
by Benedict Calvert Esq.
Mess.^rs Dickinson and Thomas bring up an Engrossed Bill, En-
titled An Act for the Relief of Mary Hindman of Talbot County —
Read and Assented to by the Lower House of Assembly — Read and
Assented to by this House, and ordered to be so Subscribed, the
Paper Bill so Endorsed, sent by Benedict Calvert Esq.
Adjourned until to Morrow Morning 10 of the Clock.

Dec. 15

Friday Morning 15:^th of December 1769.
This House met again according to Adjournment.

Present as Yesterday and Col.^o Hammond.
Mess.™ Tyler and Contee attend with M.^r Mordecai Jacobs, a
Member Elected for Prince Georges County, to See him Qualified,
who takes the Oaths to the Government, appointed to be taken by
Act of Assembly, repeats and Subscribes the Oath of Abjuration
and Test, and then withdraws.
Mess.^rs Holliday and Steele bring up a Bill, Entitled an Act to
enable the Justices of Queen Anns County Court, for the time being,
to Levy on the Taxable Inhabitants of Saint Lukes Parish, in the
said County, a Quantity of Tobacco for Building a Chapel in the
said Parish, Read the first and Second time in the Lower House
and will Pass — Read the first and Second time, by an Especial Order,
in this House and will Pass — So Endorsed and Sent by Col.^o Fitz-
hugh
Read and Referred the Petition of Sundry Inhabitants of Queen
Ann Parish in Prince Georges County, praying that a new Church
may be Erected in said Parish — Sent by Walter Dulany Esq.

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His Excellency the Governor is pleased to Communicate to this
House the following Message
Annapolis 15.^th Dec.^r 1769
Gentlemen
In the Journal of Accounts, now before your Honourable House,
I am informed no Allowance has been made to me for Affixing the
Great Seal of the Province to fifteen Proclamations of the late Acts
in Favor of the American Trade, or to the Printer for Reprinting
the said Acts