122 Assembly Proceedings, November 16-December 22, 1773.

Votes and

Proceedings
of the Lower
House,
printed by
A. C. Green
Dec. 9

By the Upper House of Assembly, December 8, 1773: Read the

Second Time by an especial Order and will pass.
Signed by Order, U. SCOTT, Cl. Up. Ho."

Which was read here and passed for ingrossing.
On Motion, the Question was put, That the following Question,
viz. "That the Sum of 37,333 1/3 Dollars be appropriated out of the
346,666! Dollars to be struck to the Use of the several County
Schools in this Province" be now put? Resolved in the Negative.

For the NEGATIVE.

Key,

Aq. Hall,

Contee,

Barnes,

Tolly,

Earle,

Weems,

Johnson,

T. Wright,

Lyles,

Chase,

Hammond,

Parran,

J. Hall,

Chaille,

Smallwood,

White,

Beatty,

Ware,

Beall,

Griffith,

Hawkins,

Tyler,

Funk.

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For the AFFIRMATIVE.

Ringgold,

Chamberlaine,

Ward,

Maxwell,

Thomas,

Brown,

Sudler,

Lloyd,

So. Wright,

Ridgely,

Richardson,

Robins.

Deye,

Veazy,

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Mr. Richardson brings in and delivers to Mr. Speaker a Bill,
entitled, An Act for the Division of Dorchester and Queen-Anne's
Counties, and for erecting a new one by the Name of Caroline,
which was read the First Time and ordered to lie on the Table.
The House adjourns till 3 o'Clock

POST MERIDIEM.
The House met.
The Order of the Day for taking into Consideration the Peti-
tion of the Inhabitants of Patapsco Lower Hundred being read;
RESOLVED, That the same be now taken into Consideration. Upon
reading the said Petition, the same was granted, ORDERED, That
Mr. Ridgely, Mr. Deye, Mr. Aquila Hall, Mr. Tolly, and Mr.
J. Hall, do prepare and bring in a Bill pursuant to the Prayer
thereof.
The ingrossed Bill, No. 6, was read and assented to, and sent
to the Upper House with the Paper Bill thereof by Mr. Aq. Hall
and Mr. Tolly.
Benjamin Ogle, Esq; from the Upper House, delivers to Mr.
Speaker the Paper Bill, No. 6, thus indorsed: "By the Upper