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chase other Lands for erecting one School in lieu of the Two con-
venient to each County severally indorsed "By the Upper House of
Assembly October 17.^th 1770 Read and referred to the Consideration
of the Lower House of Assembly
Signed by Order U Scott Cl. Up: Ho."

Which Petitions were read here and ordered to lie on the Table

The Bill entitled an Act for amending the Staple of Tobacco for
preventing Frauds in his Majesty's Customs and for the Regulation
of Officers ffees read the second Time and will pass Sent to the
Upper House by M.^r W. Paca, M.^r Eden, M.^r Ringgold, M.^r Worth-
ington, M.^r Gantt, M.^r Smallwood, M.^r Gale, M.^r Goldsborough,
M.^r Steele, M.^r Ward, M.^r Beall, M.^r Wright, M.^r J. Paca, M.^r Selby
and M.^r Luckett. They return and acquaint M.^r Speaker they
delivered the Bill —
M.^r Beall and M.^r Heugh have Leave of Absence till Monday next

M.^r Mackall and M.^r Key added to the Committee appointed to
enquire into the ffacts set forth in the Petition of Abraham Barnes

M.^r Beall brings in and delivers to M.^r Speaker the following
Report

By the Committee appointed to examine into the Truth of the
several ffacts set forth in the Petition of Bartholomew Pomeroy of
London Merchant

Your Committee in Obedience to the Order of the Honourable
House have examined the several ffacts set forth in the said Petition
and do find the same to be true, that is to say, that John Brooke the
Obligor in the said Petition named did on the twenty sixth Day of
January seventeen hundred and forty three four pass and execute

L. H. J.
Liber No. 54
Oct. 17

his Bond to Thomas Hodgkin deceased in the said Petition men-
tioned in the Penalty of one hundred Pounds Sterling conditioned,
for the conveying and assuring to the said Thomas Hodgkin his
Heirs and Assigns before the tenth Day of August seventeen hundred
and forty six one Tract or Parcel of Land being Part of a Tract of
Land called Rencher's Adventure lying and being in Prince George's
County and contained within the Metes and Bounds Courses and
Distances in the said Petition contained and specified. That the said
Thomas Hodgkin on the said twenty sixth Day of January seventeen
hundred and forty three four past his bond to the said John Brooke
in the Penalty of One Hundred Pounds Sterling Money conditioned
for the Payment of fifty Pounds Sterling at four Payments by the
said tenth Day of August seventeen hundred and forty six in Con-
sideration of the said Tract of Land so to be conveyed by the said
John Brooke to the said Thomas Hodgkin as aforesaid
That the said Sum of fifty Pounds Sterling hath been paid on the
Bond last aforesaid by the said Thomas Hodgkin to the said John
Brooke and his legal Representatives

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