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M.r Handy brings in and delivers to M.r Speaker the following
Report
By the Committee appointed to enquire what Laws will expire at
the Close of this Session October 12.th 1771
Your Committee find that the following Acts of Assembly will
expire at the End of this Session if not contl.d Viz.t
An Act for the Preservation of the Breed of Fish passed May
Session 1768.
An Act for reviving and continuing An Act entitled An Act to
establish a Market at the Market House in Chester Town in Kent
County and for the Regulation of the said Market passed May
Session 1768
An Act for licensing Ordinary Keepers Hawkers Pedlars and
Petty Chapmen passed May Session 1768
An Act for amending and declaring the Law in the Cases therein
mentioned passed May Session 1768
All which is submitted to the Consideration of the Honourable
House
Signed by Order John C. Jones Cl
Which was read and ordered to lie on the Table.
William Fitzhugh Esq from the Upper House delivers to M.r
Speaker the Bill entitled An Act for vesting in such foreign Protes-
tants as are now naturalized or shall be hereafter naturalized in this
Province all the Rights and Privileges of natural born Subjects thus
indorsed "By the Upper House of Assembly October 14.th 1771
Read the first and second Time by an especial Order and will pass.
Signed by Order U Scott Cl. Up. Ho."
Which Bill was read here and passed for ingrossing
M.r Wootton brings in and delivers to M.r Speaker the said Bill,
ingrossed. Which was read and assented to.
The Order of the Day for taking into Consideration the Petition
of Robert Henley Courts against M.r Francis Ware and M.r Josias
Hawkins two Delegates returned for Charles County being read; the
House was moved that the Resolves of the Lower House of As-
sembly of the 22.d June 1768 for preventing Charge and Expence
in Elections of Members to serve in the General Assembly be read;
and they were read accordingly.
The House took into Consideration the Petition of Robert Henley
Courts against M.r Francis Ware and after Examination of several
Witnesses at the Bar the sitting Members withdrew and the House
resolved That Francis Ware is guilty of treating at the late Election
for Charles County and the Question was put that M.r Francis Ware
is duly elected a Burgess to serve in this General Assembly for Charles
County? Resolved in the Negative
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