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The Bill entitled An Act for more effectually preventing the buying
and selling of Offices and to prevent Simoniacal Contracts was read
the second Time and will pass. Which Bill and the Bill for imposing
a further additional Duty of five Pounds per Poll on all Negroes
imported into this Province were sent to the Upper House by M.r
Paca and M.r Johnson
Ordered, That M.r Smallwood and M.r Weems do acquaint his
Excellency that this House hath prepared an Address to be presented
to him and desires to know when and where he will be pleased to
receive it.
They return and acquaint M.r Speaker the Governor signified he
would receive the Address in half an Hour in the Lobby of the Coun-
cil Chamber
Ordered, That M.r Chase and M.r Tilghman do present the Address
to his Excellency. They return and acquaint M.r Speaker they de-
livered the Address
The Bill entitled An Act for licensing Ordinary Keepers Hawkers
Pedlars and Petty Chapmen was read the second Time and com-
mitted
Benedict Calvert Esq from the Upper House delivers to M.r
Speaker a Petition of the Trustees for the Poor of Ann Arundel
County setting forth that they have according to the Directions of
an Act of Assembly made in the Year 1768 entitled An Act for the
Relief of the Poor within the several Counties therein mentioned
used their utmost Endeavours to purchase Land whereon to build an
Alms and Work House for the Poor of said County; but that they
have not been able to find any Owners of Land near and convenient
to the City of Annapolis willing to dispose of the same for that
Purpose. That there hath been collected from the Inhabitants of
Ann Arundel County in the Years 1769, 1770 & 1771 the Sum of
£ 1849.. 7..9 1/2 for the Purpose of erecting an Alms and Work-House
in said County. That for several Years by gone the Inhabitants of
Ann Arundel County have been burthened with the Support of about
180 Poor. That by the best Computation they have been able to make
a convenient House for the Reception of one hundred and thirty
poor People beside Vagrants cannot be built and completely finished
for less than £3000 without including the Purchase of the Land;
and therefore praying the Legislature to afford them such Relief
as on Consideration of the Premises they shall think fit
The Order of the Day for taking into Consideration the Matter
relative to M.r John Frederick Augustus Priggs being read; Ordered,
That he be called in and he appeared at the Bar accordingly; and after
some Debate thereon the House referred the further Consideration
thereof till To-Morrow Morning at the Sitting of the House
The Order for taking into Consideration the Remonstrance of the
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