Thursday Morning 1.st July 1773.
The House met again according to Adjournment.
Present as yesterday.
Read the second Time in this House the Bill entitled "An Act for
more effectually Preventing the Buying and Selling of Offices"; and
will not Pass. So Endorsed and retained in this House.
Mess.rs Johnson, Beall, Thomas and Wright bring up a Bill en-
titled "An Act for amending the Staple of Tobacco and preventing
Frauds in His Majestys Customs." Read the first and second Time
in the Lower House, and will Pass, which was Read the first Time
in this House and Ordered to lie on the Table.
Adjourned until three of the Clock in the Afternoon.
Eodem Die Post Meridiem.
The House met again according to Adjournment.
Present as in the Morning.
Mess.rs Deye and Ward bring up the two following Bills, Read
the first and second Time in the Lower House and will Pass.
A Bill entitled "An Act confirming to James Kendricks of Balti-
more County sundry Lands therein mentioned." A Bill entitled "An
Act to impower Thomas Jett and William Bernard or either of them
to sell and dispose of the Lands therein mentioned Pursuant to the
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