Ordered, That if any Member go without the Bar during the
Reading of, or Debate and Deliberation upon, any Matter or Thing
whatever he be called to Order by M.r Speaker
Ordered, That if any Letter or Packet directed to the Speaker of
this House do come to the Hand or Knowledge of the Speaker (or
during the Time of a Dissolution to the Person who was Speaker)
he do immediately take up and open the same and communicate the
Contents thereof to this House at the next Session
On Motion, the Bill entitled An Act to redress the Evils arising
from the Variation of the Compass in surveying Lands which was
referred from last to this Session was read and ordered to lie on the
Table
Ordered, That the same be taken into Consideration on Thursday
the 25:th Instant
The Bill entitled an Act to remedy a Defect in the Title of
Bartholomew Pomeroy of London Merchant to a Tract or Parcel
of Land Rencher's Adventiure lying in Prince George's County read
a second Time and will pass — Sent to the Upper House by M.r Tyler
& M.r Contee They return and acquaint M.r Speaker they delivered
the Bill
M.r Tilg[h]man brings in and delivers to M.r Speaker a Bill en-
titled an Act to oblige the several County Clerks to have with them on
their Office Days the four last Courts Docketts and Papers Which
was read the first and second Time by an especial Order and will pass
Sent to the Upper House by M.r N. Thomas and M.r Key. They
return and acquaint M.r Speaker they delivered the Bill
The ingrossed Bill entitled an Act to give Thomas Harrison fur-
ther Time to effect the Removal of a Nusance in Baltimore Town
in Baltimore County read and assented to — Sent to the Upper House
with the Paper Bill thereof by M.r Deye and M.r Matthews — They
return and acquaint M.r Speaker they delivered the Bill
William Hayward Esq from the Upper House delivers to M.r
Speaker the following Paper Bills Viz.t Entitled an Act directing
the Sale of the Lands of Richard Heard late of Saint Mary's County
deceased for the Payment of the Debts of the said Richard Heard
An Act to enable the Justices of Somerset County to levy on the
taxable Inhabitants of Somerset Parish in the said County a Quantity
of Tobacco for the Purposes therein mentioned
An Act for abolishing June County Courts and for other Purposes
therein mentioned
An Act for the Adjournment and Continuance of the High Court
of Appeals and for the Adjournment of the Provincial Court and
other Purposes therein mentioned
An Act to invest John Clayton with an exclusive Privilege and
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