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Which last mentioned Petition was read here and granted. And the
Bill, entitled, An Act to impower the Justices of Worcester County,
to levy on the Taxable Inhabitants of All-Hallows Parish, the
Quantity of Forty five Thousand Pounds of Tobacco for the Uses
therein mentioned, thus indorsed: "By the Upper House of As-
sembly, October 20, 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, October 21, 1773: Read the
second Time and will pass, with the following Amendment, viz.
Leave out the Words "Persons acting as" in the last Line of the
first Page.
Signed by Order, U. SCOTT, Cl. Up. Ho."
The House adjourns till 3 o'Clock.
POST MERIDIEM.
The House met.
Mr. Griffith hath Leave of Absence till Monday next.
On Progression in reading a second Time the Bill, entitled, An
Act for the Regulation of the Staple of Tobacco, and for preventing
Frauds in his Majesty's Customs, the Question was put, That Well's
Warehouse in Queen-Anne's County be continued?
RESOLVED in the Affirmative.
The House adjourns till To-morrow Morning 9 o'Clock.
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Votes and
Proceedings
of the Lower
House,
printed by
A. C. Green
Oct. 21
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FRIDAY, October 22, 1773.
THE House met. All Members present as on Yesterday, except
Mr. Weems and Mr. Griffith. The Proceedings of Yesterday
were read.
John Ridout, Esq; from the Upper House delivers to Mr. Speaker
a Petition of Mary Worthington, Widow and Relict of John Worth-
ington, late of Baltimore County, deceased, setting forth, That her
Husband, was, in his Lifetime seized in his Demesne, as of Fee, of
and in One Hundred and Sixty-nine Acres of Land, Part of Two
Tracts or Parcels of Land, lying and being in Baltimore County,
called Cromwell's Choice and Cromwell's Addition: That the Peti-
tioner's Husband being so thereof seized, did agree to sell and dis-
pose of the same to his Brother William Worthington, for the Sum
of One Hundred and Sixty Pounds Sterling; and in Consequence
of the said Agreement did receive the Sum of One Hundred and
Fifty Pounds Sterling in Part of the Purchase Money; and after-
wards, and before the Residue of the Purchase Money was paid,
died intestate, and leaving the Petitioner and Six Daughters in their
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