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The House being informed that M.r Levin Gale a Delegate returned
for Somerset County was attending at the Door; Ordered, That M.r
Handy and M.r Dennis do go with that Gentleman to the Upper
House to see him qualified. They return and acquaint M.r Speaker
they saw him qualified in the usual Manner.
The Petitions of sundry languishing Prisoners were read the first
Time and ordered to lie on the Table.
M.r W. Thomas appeared in the House
George Plater Esq from the Upper House delivers to M.r Speaker
the Bill entitled A Supplementary Act to the Act entitled An Act
for building a Parish Church in Queen Ann Parish in Prince George's
County thus indorsed "By the Upper House of Assembly October
23. d 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 pass'd for ingrossing
On reading the Petition of Robert Horner a languishing Prisoner
in Charles County Goal and a counter Petition preferred by Robert
Buchanan Attorney in ffact for James Buchanan: Ordered That
M.r Smallwood, M.r Harrison, M.r Grahame, M.r Weems, and M.r
Johnson be a Committee to enquire into the Facts set forth in the
said Petitions, and report the same as it shall appear to them to the
House; and they have Power to send for Persons Papers and Records
The Petition of Andrew Colter of Cecil County setting forth that
about the Year 1763 he became Security for Thomas Palmer who
was left Executor of Thomas Elliott sen.r his Administration on
Elliott's Estate. That the said Executor by Reason of his Absence
from the Province, the Want of Effects, and injudicious method of
administring such Effects of the Testator as actually came to his
Hands and by suffering them to be taken away and destroyed by
other Persons; and also by Reason of the said Executor's becoming
insolvent he conceives himself to be in great Danger of being charged
with the Debts and Legacies remaining unpaid; and therefore praying
the House to pass an Act to release him from the Bond which he
executed as Security aforesaid; read and rejected.
M.r Mackall brings in and delivers to M.r Speaker a Bill entitled A
Supplementary Act to the Act entitled An Act for the building of a
Parish Church in Christ Church Parish in Calvert County. Which
was read the first and second Time by an especial Order and will pass
The Bill entitled An Act to impower the Justices of Somerset and
Worcester Counties to levy on the taxable Inhabitants of Stepney
Parish in said Counties the Sum of sixty thousand Pounds of To-
bacco for the Uses therein mentioned and to establish the Church
at Green Hill the Parish Church for said Parish was read with the
Amendments for which it has been committed and will pass.
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