The Lower House. 107

George Steuart Esq.^r from the Upper House delivers to M.^r
Speaker a Petition of the Vestrymen and Church Wardens of
Stepney Parish in Somerset and Worcester Counties praying an Act
may pass to impower the Justices of those Counties to levy on the
taxable Inhabitants of said Parish sixty thousand Pounds of Tobacco
for finishing and compleating three Chapels of Ease in the said
Parish. And A Petition of the said Vestrymen and Church Wardens
and sundry other Parishioners of said Parish praying an Act may
pass to establish and confirm the Church at Green Hill the Parish
Church for the said Parish
Benedict Calvert and Walter Dulany Esq." from the Upper House
acquaint M.^r Speaker that his Excellency requires the Attendance
of the Members of this House in the Upper House to see the Laws
passed.
M.^r Speaker left the Chair and (with the Members of this House)
went to the Upper House and there presented to his Excellency,
An ingrossed 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.
And an ingrossed Bill entitled An Act for the Adjournment and
Continuance of the High Court of Appeals. Both which his Excel-
lency passed into Laws in the usual Manner, and then delivered to
M.^r Speaker two Papers marked "Amount of Tonnage from 29.^th
September 1769 to 29.^th September 1770. Amount of Tonnage 1770
to 29.^th September 1771" And the following Message.
Annapolis 16.^th October 1771
Gentlemen,
I herewith lay before you the Amount of Tonnage of all Vessels,
as well foreign as free Bottoms entered in Maryland these two last
Years (Vessels from Virginia excepted) and shall be happy if it is
in my Power to do any Thing further to advance the Erection of
the proposed Light House on Cape Henry, in which the Trade of
Maryland is equally interested with that of her Sister Virginia
Rob.^t Eden

M.^r Speaker (with the rest of the Members) returned. M.^r
Speaker resumes the Chair

L. H. J.
Liber No. 54
Oct. 16

On a second reading that Part of the Bill for amending the Staple
of Tobacco &.^ta relative to the Allowance to the Clergy the House
was moved that the third Section of An Act of Assembly entitled
"An Act for the Establishment of Religious Worship in this Prov-
ince, according to the Church of England; and for the Maintenance
of Ministers" made the 16.^th March 1701-2 be read; and it was read
accordingly.
The Question was put That that Part of the Bill relative to the
30 p Poll be altered? Resolved in the Affirmative

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