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Which was read, and the Amendments were read and unanimously
rejected.
The House adjourns till 3 o'Clock.
POST MERIDIEM.
The House met. Mr. Somervell appeared in the House.
A Bill, entitled, An Act for an Addition to Baltimore Town, in
Baltimore County, was read the First Time and ordered to lie
on the Table.
Daniel Dulany, Esq; from the Upper House, delivers to Mr.
Speaker a Petition of sundry the Inhabitants on Patuxent River,
praying that an Act may pass to prevent any Obstruction in the
said River (by making Wares and Causeways over the same) from
the Wharf at Queen-Anne Town, in Prince-George's County, to
Snowden's Iron-Works, thus indorsed: "By the Upper House
of Assembly, December 15, 1773: Read and referred to the Con-
sideration of the Lower House of Assembly.
Signed by Order, U. SCOTT, Cl. Up. Ho."
Which was read here the First Time and ordered to lie on the Table.
Benjamin Ogle, Esq; from the Upper House, delivers to Mr.
Speaker a Petition of Matthew Purnell, of Worcester County, pray-
ing that an Act may pass requiring the Clerk of Worcester County,
to record a Deed from Robert Nilson, to the Petitioner, for certain
Lands by the said Nilson to him conveyed, which he through Ignor-
ance neglected to get recorded agreeable to Law, and that the said
Deed may be declared to be valid in Law, to pass the Lands therein
mentioned to the Petitioner and his Heirs, thus indorsed: "By the
Upper House of Assembly, December 15, 1773: Read and referred
to the Consideration of the Lower House of Assembly.
Signed by Order, U. SCOTT, Cl. Up. Ho."
Which was read here the First Time and ordered to lie on the Table.
John Ridout, Esq; from the Upper House, delivers to Mr. Speaker
a Petition of the Rector, Vestrymen, and Churchwardens, and other
the Inhabitants of Saint Paul's Parish, lying partly in Queen-Anne's
and partly in Talbot Counties, praying that an Act may pass to levy
on the taxable Inhabitants of the said Parish, at Three equal annual
Assessments, the Quantity of Three Hundred Thousand Pounds of
Tobacco, to be by the Vestry applied towards defraying the Expence
of building and compleating the Parish Church in the said Parish,
and to reimburse the Vestry the Money taken up by them to carry
on the said Building, thus indorsed: "By the Upper House of
Assembly, December 15, 1773: Read and referred to the Considera-
tion of the Lower House of Assembly.
Signed by Order, U. SCOTT, Cl. Up. Ho."
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Proceedings
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House,
printed by
A. C. Green
Dec. 15
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