190 Assembly Proceedings, October 2-November 30, 1771.

L. H. J.
Liber No. 54
Nov. 21

Ministers thus indorsed "By the Upper House of Assembly Nov.^r
20.^th 1771 Read the first Time and ordered to lie on the Table.
Signed by Order U Scott Cl Up Ho.

"By the Upper House of Assembly Nov.^r 21.^st 1771 Read the
second Time and will pass with the Amendment annexed
Signed by Order U Scott Cl Up Ho"

Let the Proviso beginning at the third Line from the Bottom of
the fifth Page be amended so as to be to the following Effect Viz.^t
"And provided also that if any such benificed Minister shall not
appear before the Commissioners aforesaid but shall wilfully and
contumaciously make Default after Personal Notice of the Time and
Place of such Inquiry or make such Default after a Note under the
Hand of the said Commissioners specifying the Time and Place of
such Inquiry shall have been set up and affixed at his Parish Church
Door One Month at the least before such Inquiry then and in every
such Case the Commissioners aforesaid shall proceed in their Inquiry
in the same Manner as in the Case of the Personal Appearance before
them of such Minister"

And a Petition of Alexander Symmer of Prince George's County
praying an Act to pass for his Relief so far as to secure his Effects
and Person from Arrests and Law suits for a Term not exceeding
ten years in Order to enable him to support himself and ffamily
consisting of five young Children

The Address to his Excellency was read a second Time; and the
Question was put that the House agree to the same
Resolved in the Affirmative

For the Affirmative

Buchanan,

Adams,

Tilghman,

Ringgold,

Richardson,

Thomas,

Worthington,

Moale,

Chamberlaine,

Johnson,

Risteau,

T. Wright,

Chase,

Deye,

So. Wright,

Mackall,

Ward,

Earle,

Weems,

Beall,

Luckett,

Smallwood,

Tyler,

Wootton,

Harrison,

Contee,

Beatty,

Ware,

Hall,

Hagar.

Hawkins,

Paca,

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For the Negative

Gresham,

Hammond,

Baxter.

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