356 Assembly Proceedings, November 5-21, 1770.

U. H. J.
Liber No. 36
Nov. 12

Mess:^rs Johnson and Ringgold from the Lower House bring up
the following Message
By the Lower House of Assembly 12:^th Nov:^r 1770
May it Please your Honours.
The Propositions which accompanied your Negative on the In-
spection Bill last session ..... [The message beginning thus is
printed in full in the Lower House Journal, pp. 394-396.]

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Mess:^rs Allen and Dashiel from the Lower House bring up a Bill,
entitled. "An Act to remedy the Omission of the Enrollment of a
Deed of Bargain and Sale from Thomas Collier to Thomas Light-
foot, William Lightfoot, Abraham Mitchell, Walter Franklin, and
Samuel Franklin"

Read the first and second time, by an especial Order, in the Lower
House and will Pass. — which was Read the first time in this House
and ordered to lie on the Table —
Adjourned until to Morrow Morning 10 of the Clock.

Nov. 13

Tuesday Morning 13.^th of November 1770.

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The House met again according to Adjournment.

Present as Yesterday.
Mess:" Holliday and Wright bring up an Engrossed Bill, entitled
"A Supplementary Act to the Act entitled An Act to enable the
Justices of Queen Anns County Court, for the Time being, to Levy
on the Taxable Inhabitants of Saint Lukes Parish, in the said
County, a Quantity of Tobacco, for Building a Chapel in the said
Parish." Read and Assented to by the Lower House of Assembly.
Mess:^rs A. Hall and Deye bring up an Engrossed Bill, Entitled.
"An Act to divide Saint Georges Parish in Baltimore County." Read
and Assented to by the Lower House of Assembly. These two Bills
were Read and Assented to by this House, and Ordered to be so
Subscribed, the Paper Bills so Endorsed Sent to the Lower House
by William Hayward Esquire.
The following Message Sent to the Lower House by John Ridout
Esq:
By the Upper House of Assembly 13:^th November 1770.
Gentlemen.
Our last Message contained the Propositions which our Con-
ferrees would have been Instructed to make, had a Conference taken
place according to any of the Precedents we have pointed out.
The Election we are willing to extend to all Persons, as well
Planters as others, to discharge all Fees and the Poll Tax in Tobacco
or Money — as might occasionally best Suit them, would be an