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Thursday October 24.th 1771
The House met.
All Members present as on Yesterday except M.r Worthington.
The Proceedings of Yesterday were read.
M.r Hall and M.r Hammond appeared in the House
William Fitzhugh Esq from the Upper House delivers to M.r
Speaker the 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; and the Bill entitled An Act to impower the Justices
of Somerset and Worcester Counties to levy on the taxable Inhabi-
tants of Stepney Parish in said Counties the Sum of sixty thousand
Pounds of Tobacco for the Uses therein mentioned and to establish
the Church at Green Hill the Parish Church for said Parish severally
indorsed "By the Upper House of Assembly October 28.th 1771
Read the first & second Time by an especial Order and will pass.
U Scott Cl. Up. Ho"
Which Bills were here read and passed for ingrossing
The Order of the Day for hearing the Matter relative to M.r John
Frederick Augustus Priggs being read; Ordered, That the same be
heard at the Bar of this House at three O'Clock this Afternoon.
George Steuart Esq from the Upper House delivers to M.r Speaker
a Petition of Elizabeth Williams of Baltimore County praying that
an Act may pass to impower her to make Conveyances of sundry
Tracts of Land in the said Petition mentioned, which her Husband,
George Williams, in his Life-Time, contracted for, in Order that
she might thereby be enabled to pay the Debts of the said George
Williams, and the several Legacies bequeathed by him to his Children
Which was read and referred to the Consideration of a Committee;
and that they do examine the Matter thereof and report the same as
it shall appear to them to the House. And M.r Rumsey, M.r Paca, and
M.r Thomas Wright are appointed a Committee accordingly; and
they have Power to send for Persons, Papers and Records.
He also delivered to M.r Speaker a Petition of the Rector Vestry-
men, Wardens and sundry Inhabitants of All Hallows Parish in
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