58 Assembly Proceedings, November 17-December 20, 1769.

L. H. J.
Liber No. 54
Dec. 1

M.^r Worthington appeared in the House.

Ordered, That M.^r Wilson, and M.^r Beall, and M.^r Hooper, do pre-
pare and bring in a Bill for the Relief of the several Prisoners whose
Petitions are granted.

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On Motion, Resolved, That no new Business be moved for after
Monday next.

M.^r Ringgold brought in, and delivered to M.^r Speaker, the follow-
ing Report

By the Committee appointed to state the Facts set forth in the
Petition of Thomas Smyth, Mary Granger, and William Granger,
and to report the same to the House.

Your Committee, in Obedience to the Order of the House, pro-
ceeded to enquire into the Facts stated in the Petition of Thomas
Smyth, Mary Granger, and William Granger, and do find from the
information of M.^r Thomas Ringgold, one of the Committee, that
William Granger, the Petitioner, is seised in Fee of the Lot N.^o 16
mentioned in the Petition, and that the said Lot is such as described
in the said Petition: They further find from the Information of the
said Thomas Ringgold, and of M.^r Stephen Bordley, one of the Com-
mittee, that the sum of one hundred Pounds Current Money, does
considerably exceed the Price at which the Lots in the Town of
Chester, containing nearly one Acre have usually been sold: They
further find, that the Petitioner William Granger is under the Age
of Twenty-one Years, to wit, of the Age of Twenty Years and
upwards, and that the Petitioner, Mary, is the Mother and only sur-
viving Parent of the said William, and that the said Petitioner,
Thomas Smyth, hath lately erected on the said Lot, such a House
as is described in the Petition. All which is humbly submitted to the
Consideration of your Honorable House.

Signed by Order Ralph Dobinson Cl: Com

Walter Dulany Esq from the Upper House delivered to M.^r
Speaker the Petition of sundry the Freeholders of Baltimore County,
and the Petition of John Clayton, severally indorsed: "By the Upper
House of Assembly Dec.^r 1.^st 1769 Read and referred to the Con-
sideration of the Lower House of Assembly.

Sign'd by Order U Scott Cl: Up: Ho:"

Which Petitions were read the first Time and Ordered to lie on
the Table.

Also the Petition of Michael Hanchliff, a languishing Prisoner in
Anne Arundel County Gaol, Which was read and granted.

The House adjourns till To-morrow Morning 9 o' Clock