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They return and acquaint M.r Speaker they delivered the Bill
The Order of the Day for taking into further Consideration the
Report of the Committee appointed to inspect the several publick
Offices &.ta being read; Resolved, That it is the Duty of the Register
of the Land Office fairly to transcribe the General Alphabet in the
Land Office.
Resolved, also, That it is the Duty of the Register of the Land
Office to repair the particular Alphabets in the said Office since the
general Alphabet and all Books in his Office which are out of Repair.
Ordered, That the Clerk of this House do deliver to the Register
of the Land Office a Copy of the above Resolves
Ordered, That a further Consideration on the said Report be had
To-morrow Morning
Ordered, That the Register of the Land Office do immediately
attend at the Bar of this House with Liber C N:o 3 a Record Book
in the Land Office
J. B. Bordley Esq from the Upper House delivers to M.r Speaker
a Bill entitled a Supplementary Act to the Act entitled An Act to
prevent disabled and superannuated Slaves being set free, or the
Manumission of Slaves by any last Will or Testament thus indorsed
"By the Upper House of Assembly October 24:th 1770 Read the
first Time and ordered to lie on the Table
Signed by Order U Scott Cl. Up. Ho."
And thus "By the Upper House of Assembly Octob.r 29:th 1770
Read the second Time and will pass
Signed by Order U Scott Cl. Up. Ho."
Which Bill was read here the first Time and ordered to lie on
the Table.
M.r Tilghman brings in and delivers to M.r Speaker a Bill entitled
An Act for more effectually preventing the buying and selling of
Offices and to prevent Simoniacal Contracts. Which was read the
first Time and ordered to lie on the Table
William Fitzhugh Esq from the Upper House delivers to M.r
Speaker the following Bills Viz.t
The Bill entitled An Act to remedy a Defect in the Acknowledg-
ment of a Conveyance from Josiah Conant to William Thornton
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L. H. J.
Liber No. 54
Oct. 29
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