The Lower House. 121

Both which Bills were sent to the Upper House by M.^r Mackall and
M.^r Handy.
On Motion, Ordered That Leave be given to bring in a Bill for
amending and declaring the Law in the Cases mentioned; and that
M.^r Chase and M.^r N. Thomas do prepare and bring in the same
M.^r Dennis brings in and delivers to M.^r Speaker a Bill entitled
An Act for Trial of all Matters of Fact in the several Counties where
they have arisen or shall arise. Which was read the first Time and
ordered to lie on the Table.

M.^r Paca brings in and delivers to M.^r Speaker an Address to his
Excellency which was read approved of and ordered to be ingrossed

The Bill entitled An Act for imposing a further additional Duty
of five Pounds Current Money per Poll on all Negroes imported into
this Province was read a second Time and will pass

It appearing to this House that Samuel Cookson of Baltimore
County in the Year 1768 preferred a Petition to the then Lower
House of Assembly setting forth "that he did on or about the 19.^th
Day of September 1763 purchase of a certain William Bond, for
the Consideration of £900 his Dwelling Plantation made up of sev-
eral Tracts of Land. That the said William Bond did at the same
Time make and execute his Bond to the Petitioner thereby obligating
himself and his Heirs to make and execute unto the said Petitioner
or his Assigns a good and lawful Deed of special Warranty upon
the Petitioners paying the Sum of f 500. That the Petitioner did
pay unto the said William Bond in his Life Time the aforesaid Sum
of f 500, and did also make him sundry Payments over and above
the said Sum towards a second Payment amounting to the Sum of
f 74.. 12...2. That he hath also paid and discharged to a certain John
Moale the Sum of £43...7.. 9 Pensylvania Currency being the Balance
due on a Mortgage made of the said Lands by a certain Thomas
Bond ffather to the said William. That the Petitioner hath also
purchased of a certain Phebe Bond the Widow of the said Thomas
and Mother of the said William her Right of Dower in the said
Land for the Consideration of ten Pounds per Year

L H. J.
Liber No. 54
Oct. 23

That the said William Bo»d died without having made over or
conveyed to the Petitioner the said Lands leaving a Daughter a
Minor of the Age of two Years And the Petitioner being willing and
desirous to pay and discharge the Balance due from him and con-
ceiving himself to be without Remedy both at Law and Equity. And
therefore praying a Bill might pass to establish his Title in the said
Lands in as full and ample Manner as if the said William Bond had
conveyed the same agreeable to the Terms of his Bond. It appearing
also that the said Petition was in 1769 referred to the Consideration
of a Committee and that that Committee reported the several ffacts
therein contained to be true. That in Consequence thereof Leave was
given to said Cookson to bring in a Bill pursuant to the Prayer of

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