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Which were severally read here and passed for ingrossing.
M.^r Sim appeared in the House.
The House resumed the Consideration of the Petition for the
Removal of Chaptico and Piles's Warehouses. The Witnesses were
examined and Counsel heard. The Counsel and Parties were or-
dered to withdraw; and it being moved, that the Question be put, that
the said Petition for Removal be granted? The previous Question
was called for and carried in the Affirmative; whereupon the Ques-
tion was put, that the said Petition be granted? which was carried
in the Negative, and the said Petition was accordingly rejected
The House adjourns till To-morrow Morning 9 O'Clock.

L. H. J.
Liber 54
Apr. 6

Thursday, April, 7, 1774.
The House met.
All Members present as on Yesterday except M.^r Somervell.
The Proceedings of Yesterday were read.
The Order of the Day being read; Ordered, That the Governor's
Speech at the opening of last October Convention be read, and it
was read accordingly.
Philip Thomas Lee, Esq from the Upper House, delivers to M.^r
Speaker a Petition of sundry Inhabitants of Kent County, relative
to the Variation of the Compass, thus indorsed; "By the Upper
House of Assembly, April 7, 1774: Read and referred to the Con-
sideration of the Lower House of Assembly.
Signed by Order, James Brooks Cl. Up. Ho.

Apr. 7

Which was read here and ordered to lie on the Table.
On Motion, Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill to
establish the Boundaries and Lines of Land within this Province
by Procession; and that M.^r J. Hall, M.^r Johnson, M.^r Paca, M.^r
Beall, M.^r Ridgely, M.^r Thomas, M.^r Chase, M.^r Griffith, M.^r Ham-
mond, M.^r So. Wright, M.^r Gilpin, M.^r Worthington, and M.^r Beatty
do prepare and bring in the same.
The Petition of sundry Proprietors of Tobacco, damaged in
Bladensburg Warehouse by a Fresh in the Year 1767, was read
and rejected.
On Motion, Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill to
repeal Part of an Act to encourage the distroying of the Woolves,
Crows, and Squirrels; and that M.^r Tolly, M.^r Ridgely, M.^r Deye,
and M.^r Ridgely Son of John, do prepare and bring in the same.
Daniel of Saint Thomas Jenifer, Esq from the Upper House,
delivers to M.^r Speaker the Bill, entitled, An Act for the Regulation
of Officers Fees, thus indorsed; "By the Upper House of Assembly,
April 2, 1774: Read the first Time and ordered to lie on the Table.
Signed by Order, James Brooks, Cl. Up. Ho.

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