Salt Flax-seed and Firewood within the said Town. Read the first
and Second Time in the Lower House and will pass.
Mess.rs Wootton and Luckett bring up a Bill entitled An Act to
prevent the Exportation of Flour not Merchantable from George
Town in Frederick County. Read the first and Second Time in the
Lower House and will Pass.
The Engrossed Bill entitled An Act for preventing Trivial Suits
in the Provincial Court was Read and Assented to by this House
and Sent to the Lower House with the Paper Bill by John Ridout
Esquire.
Read and referred to the Consideration of the Lower House of
Assembly the Petition of Gilbert Barrow of Talbot County praying
for a Divorce
The House agreeable to the Order of the Day resumed the
Consideration of the Petitions for and against the Opening a Pub-
lick Road from Rock Run to Foys Landing on Susquehannah
River, and referred the same together with the Counter Petition
of Nathaniel Giles to the Consideration of the Lower House of
Assembly. So Endorsed and Sent by Daniel of Saint Thomas
Jenifer Esq
Read the Petition of Charles Dickinson, Robert Goldsborough,
Robert Harrison and John Goldsborough of Dorchester County,
and the Petition of Samuel Litten of Baltimore County, which said
Petitions are referred to the Consideration of the Lower House of
Assembly, and sent by Daniel of Saint Thomas Jenifer Esq
Read and Rejected the Petition of sundry people called Quakers
The following Message is Sent to the Lower House by William
Hayward Esquire
By the Upper House of Assembly 1.st November 1771.
Gentlemen
This House hath appointed the Honourable Benedict Calvert
Daniel Dulany, John Ridout, John Beale Bordley and William
Hayward Esquires to join the Members, named by your House, in a
Conference as agreed to in your Message of Yesterday by Mess.rs
Hall and Handy. Signed by Order. U Scott Cl. Up. Ho.
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