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Pass with the following Amendments Viz^t Alter the Preamble so
as that it may be in the following Words, "Whereas it may be doubted
whether the Justices of Cecil County Court did hold their Court on
the second Tuesday of August 1772, as by an Act of Assembly of
this Province they are required, by reason whereof it may be made
a Question whether the Actions in the said Court depending and
undetermined were discontinued or not." Leave out the Words
"except as herein after excepted" in the sixth line of the first enact-
ing Clause, and after the word "Condition" in the seventh line of
the same Clause leave out the rest of the Bill and add the following
Words Viz.^t — "to all Intents and Purposes as if the Justices of the
said Court had met and held the said Court as required by the afore-
said Act of Assembly of this Province"; so Endorsed and sent to the
Lower House by Daniel Dulany Esquire.

Adjourned until to Morrow Morning Ten of the Clock.

U. H. J.
Liber No. 36
June 28

Tuesday Morning 29.^th June 1773.
The House met again according to Adjournment.

Present as Yesterday.

Read and referred to the Consideration of the Lower House of
Assembly, the Petitions of John Ward, Charles Steuart, Patrick
Higgins, and Peter Carroll, John M°Nabb, Benjamin Wallace, and
Joseph Smith Prisoners in Baltimore County Jail, also the Petition
of John Robert Holliday Sheriff of Baltimore County. These Peti-
tions were severally Endorsed and sent to the Lower House by
Benedict Calvert Esq

June 29

Mess.^rs Paca and Hammond bring up a Bill, entitled "An Act
explaining an Act relating to Leases made by the Rector Vestrymen
and Church Wardens of Saint Anns Parish." Read the first and
second Time in the Lower House, and will Pass, which was Read
the first and second Time by an Especial Order in this House, and
will pass. So Endorsed and sent to the Lower House by Daniel
Dulany Esquire

Mess.^rs Wootton and Griffith bring up an Engrossed Bill entitled
"An Act for the Relief of John M^cClure and others."

Read and Assented to by the Lower House of Assembly which
was Read and Assented to by this House, and Ordered to be so
Subscribed, the Paper Bill so Endorsed is sent to the Lower House
by Daniel Dulany Esquire

Mess.^rs Wootton and Griffith bring up a Bill, entitled "An Act
for the Relief of the Poor in Frederick County," Read the first
and second Time in the Lower House and will Pass; which was
Read the first and second Time by an Especial Order in this House,

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