The Lower House. 213

M.^r Dickinson added to the Committee of Accounts
Ordered, That it be the further Duty of the Committee of Griev-
ances and Courts of Justice to enquire into the Form of Oath ad-
ministered to the several and respective Officers within this Province,
and that they be particularly observant of any new fform of Oath
administred as an Oath of Office or any Alteration that may have
been made in any Official Oath, and report the same to this House
The House adjourns till To-Morrow Morning Eight O'Clock

L. H. J.
Liber No. 54
Sept. 27

Friday September 28:^th 1770
The House met according to Adjournment.

The Members were called and all appeared as on Yesterday.
The Proceedings of Yesterday were read
A Petition of sundry the Inhabitants of Ann Arundel and Fred-
erick Counties, praying that the Time for inspecting Tobacco, may
be lengthened to the twentieth Day of August, was read the first Time
and ordered to lie on the Table

M.^r Speaker presents to the House a Letter from Jabez Hamliti
Esquire, Speaker of the House of Burgesses of the Colony of Con-
necticut, directed to the late Honourable Speaker of this House
inclosing several Resolves entered into by the House of Burgesses
of that Colony — Which Letter and Resolves were read and ordered
to lie on the Table

Sept. 28

On Motion, Leave given to bring in a Bill entitled An Act con-
tinuing an Act entitled An Act for amending the Staple of Tobacco
for preventing Frauds in his Majesty's Customs and for the Limita-
tion of Officers ffees and the Supplementary Act thereto.
Ordered, That M.^r Bordley, M.^r Ringgold and M.^r Chase do pre-
pare and bring in the same
M.^r Bordley from the Committee brings in and delivers to M.^r
Speaker a Bill entitled An Act continuing an Act entitled an Act for
amending the Staple of Tobacco for preventing Frauds in his Maj-
esty's Customs and for the Limitation of Officers ffees and the
Supplementary Act thereto. Which was read a first and second Time
by an especial Order and will pass. Sent to the Upper House by M.^r
Grahame and M.^r Steele. They return and acquaint M.^r Speaker
they delivered the Bill
John Ridout Esquire from the Upper House delivers to M.^r
Speaker the Bill entitled an Act continuing An Act entitled an Act
for amending the Staple of Tobacco for preventing Frauds in his
Majesty's Customs and for the Limitation of Officers ffees and the
Supplementary Act thereto thus indorsed. "By the Upper House of

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