276 Assembly Proceedings, September 25-November 2, 1770.

L. H. J.
Liber No. 54
Oct. 23

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.

An Act for impowering the Justices of Queen Ann's and Talbot
Counties to assess the taxable Inhabitants of Saint Paul's Parish in
the said Counties the Sums of Tobacco therein mentioned for build-
ing a Church and repairing the Chapel in the said Parish

An Act to oblige the several County Clerks to have with them on
their Office Days the four last Courts Dockets and Papers. And
An Act to remedy a Defect in the Title of Bartholomew Pomeroy
of London Merchant to a Tract or Parcel of Land called Rencher's
Adventure, lying in Prince George's County
All which his Excellency past into Laws in the usual Manner

M.^r Speaker (with the rest of the Members) returned and re-
sumed the Chair

His Excellency communicated to M.^r Speaker the following Mes-
sage
23:^d Octob.^r 1 770
Gentlemen,

p. 119

From the Urgency of the Business you had before you, I could
not expect your taking the Matters recommended to you into Con-
sideration sooner than you have now done.
I am obliged to you for the Copy of your Resolutions, and your
Appointment of a Committee to look into the State of the Criminal
Laws which cannot fail being acceptable to the Province. You shall
have the most exact and earliest Account I can give you, to enable
you to carry Your Design of joining the Virginians in erecting and
supporting the Light House on Cape Henry into Execution

Rob.^t Eden

M.^r Luckett delivers to M.^r Speaker the Petition of the Inhabitants
of All Saints Parish in Frederick County praying for a Division of
that Parish. Which was read and ordered to lie on the Table

M.^r Heugh delivers to M.^r Speaker the Petition of sundry the
Inhabitants of Prince George's Parish lying partly in ffrederick and
partly in Prince George's County praying a Division thereof Which
was read and ordered to lie on the Table
M.^r Mackall brings in and delivers to M.^r Speaker the following
Report Viz.^t
By the Committee appointed to examine into the Truth of the
several ffacts alledged in the Petition of Abraham Barnes of Saint
Mary's County
In Obedience to the Order of the Honble House your Committee
have examined into the Truth of the said ffacts and do find them as