288 Assembly Proceedings, March 23-April 19, 1774.

U. H. J.
Liber 37
Apr. 11

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, and will Pass — so Endorsed and sent to the
Lower House by Benjamin Ogle Esq.

Adjourned until to Morrow Morning ten of the Clock

Apr. 12

Tuesday Morning I2.^th April 1774.
The House met again according to Adjournment
Present as yesterday

Mess.^rs Charles Ridgely and Deye, attend with Mess:^rs Thomas
Bond (son of Thomas) John Love, and Richard Dallam Members
elected for Harford County, to see them Qualified, who take the
several Oaths to Government appointed to be taken by Act of
Assembly, repeat and subscribe the Oath of Abjuration and Test,
and then withdraw.

Mess.^rs Waters and Purnell bring up a Bill entitled "An Act
empowering Leonard Holliday to Sell the Land therein mentioned."
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.

Mess:^rs Waters and Purnell also bring up a Bill entitled "An Act
to empower the Justices of Somerset County to Levy on the Taxable
Inhabitants of that part of Stepney Parish which lies in the said

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County a Quantity of Tobacco for the Purposes therein men-
tioned," and a Bill entitled "An.Act to assess and levy on the Tax-
able Inhabitants of All Hallows Parish in Worcester County a
Quantity not exceeding Forty five Thousand Pounds of Tobacco
for the Purpose of erecting a Chapel of Ease in the said Parish."
Read the first and second Time in the Lower House and will Pass —
which were 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 William Hayward Esquire

Read the second Time in this House the Bill entitled "An Art for
building of a Parish Church in All Saints Parish in Calvert County."
and will Pass — so Endorsed and sent to the Lower House by Wil-
liam Hayward Esq.

Read and referred to the Consideration of the Lower House of
Assembly the Petition of sundry Inhabitants of Harford County
for affixing the Court House and Prison near the Centre of the
said County — so endorsed and sent to the Lower House by John
Beale Bordley Esq
Read and referred to the Consideration of the Lower House of