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in the said Parish Which were severally read the first Time and
ordered to lie on the Table
M.^r Ringgold brings in and delivers to M.^r Speaker a Bill entitled
an Act for raising Pence Sterling on every Hogshead of
Tobacco exported out of this Province for the Support of an Agent
at London for the Service of this Province. Which was read the
first Time and ordered to lie on the Table
M.^r Joseph Dashiell brings in and delivers to M.^r Speaker a Bill
entitled an Act to impower the Justices of Somerset and Worcester
Counties to levy on the taxable Inhabitants of Stepney Parish in said
Counties the Quantity of Eighty thousand Pounds of Tobacco for
the Uses therein mentioned Which was read the first Time and
ordered to lie on the Table
John Beale Bordley and George Steuart Esquires from the Upper
House acquaint M.^r Speaker that his Excellency requires the At-
tendance of this House, in the Upper House immediately.
M.^r Speaker left the Chair, and (with the rest of the Members of
this House) went to the Upper House, and there presented to his
Excellency the following ingrossed Bills Viz.^t

L. H. J.
Liber No. 54
Oct. 18

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 Quan-
tity of Tobacco for the Purposes therein mentioned
An Act 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
Benefit of making and selling a Machine for threshing of Wheat
on a Model by him invented
An Act to give Thomas Harrison further Time to effect the
Removal of a Nusance in Baltimore Town in Baltimore County
All which his Excellency past into Laws in the usual Form
M.^r Speaker (with the rest of the Members) returned and resumed
the Chair
The Petition of sundry the Inhabitants of Worcester and Somerset
Counties relative to the ffree-Schools in those Counties read a second
Time and granted
Leave given to bring in a Bill according to the Prayer of the
Petition
Ordered, that M.^r Chase, M.^r Ringgold, M.^r Allen, M.^r Dashiell,

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