The Lower House. 129

POST MERIDIEM.

The House met. Mr. Bond appeared in the House.
The Order of the Day for taking into Consideration the Petition
of sundry Inhabitants of Saint Mary's, Charles, Calvert, and Prince-
George's Counties being read, the same is referred till To-morrow.
The Bill, entitled, An Act for more effectually preventing the
buying and selling of Offices, was read the Second Time, passed,
and sent to the Upper House by Mr. Johnson and Mr. Paca.
Mr. Johnson brings in and delivers to Mr. Speaker a Bill, entitled,
An Act for emitting Bills of Credit and applying Part thereof, which
was read the First Time and ordered to lie on the Table.
Philip Thomas Lee, Esq; from the Upper House, delivers to Mr.
Speaker the Bill, entitled, An Act to confirm a Lease made by Thomas
Harrison, of Baltimore County, for Part of a Lot of Land therein
mentioned, to the Commissioners of Baltimore-Town and their Suc-
cessors, thus indorsed: "By the Upper House of Assembly, Decem-
ber 11, 1773: 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, December 13, 1773: Read the
Second Time and will pass.
Signed by Order, U. SCOTT, Cl. Up. Ho."

And the 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, thus indorsed: "By the Upper House of Assembly, De-
cember 10, 1773: 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, December 13, 1773: Read the
Second Time and will pass.

Signed by Order, U. SCOTT, Cl. Up. Ho.

Which were severally read here and passed for ingrossing.
The House adjourns till To-morrow Morning 9 o'Clock.

Votes and
Proceedings
of the Lower
House,
printed by
A. C. Green
Dec. 13

TUESDAY, December 14, 1773.

THE House met. All Members present as on Yesterday. The

Proceedings of Yesterday were read. Mr. Sim, Mr. Ridgely,
and Mr. Smallwood, appeared in the House.

The Bill, entitled, An Act for the Relief of the Poor in Anne-
Arundel County, was read the Second Time by an especial Order,
passed, and sent to the Upper House by Mr. Hammond and Mr.
Tolly.

Dec. 14