The Upper House. 61

Saturday Morning 11.^th of December 1773.
The House met again according to Adjournment

Present as yesterday.

Read and referred to the Consideration of the Lower House of
Assembly the Petition of sundry Inhabitants of Baltimore Town —
So endorsed and sent by Philip Thomas Lee Esq
Read the second Time in this House the Bill entitled. "An Act
to continue the Acts therein mentioned" and will not Pass — So en-
dorsed and sent to the Lower House by Philip Thomas Lee Esq.
Mess:^rs Thomas and Solomon Wright bring up a Bill entitled "An
Act for the Relief of insolvent Debtors and other Prisoners." Read
the first and second Time in the Lower House and will not Pass.
Mess.^rs Thomas and Solomon Wright bring up the Bill entitled
"An Act for the Amendment of the Law." — Read the first and sec-
ond Time in the Lower House and will Pass with the following
Amendment Viz^t Leave out the Clause from the beginning of the
sixth Page to the word "liable." inclusive in the Eleventh line of the
same Page.
Mess:^rs Barnes and Tolley bring up the two following Bills, Read
the first and second Time in the Lower House and will Pass. Viz^t
A Bill entitled "An Act for the Sale of Lands late the Property
of Caleb Dorsey of Ann Arundel County deceased for Payment of
Legacies."

A Bill entitled "A Supplementary Act to the Act entitled "An Act
for licensing Ordinary Keepers Hawkers, Pedlars and Petty Chap-
men." — Those two Bills were Read the First Time in this House

and Ordered to lie on the Table

U. H. J.
Liber No. 36
Dec. 11

Mess.^rs Deye and Tolley bring up a Bill entitled "An Act to Con-
firm 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 Successors" and also a Bill entitled "An
Act for the Relief of sundry Inhabitants of Potapsaco Lower Hun-
dred in Baltimore County." Read the first and second Time in the
Lower House and will Pass, which said Bills were severally Read
the first Time in this House and Ordered to lie on the Table
Read the second Time by an especial Order in this House a Bill
entitled "An Act for the Sale of Lands late the Property of Caleb
Dorsey of Ann Arundel County Deceased for payment of Legacies;"
and will Pass with the following Amendment Viz.^t Add the follow-
ing Proviso at the end of the Bill "Provided always that nothing in
this Act contained shall in any manner affect the Claim or Remedy
of any Creditor or Creditors of the aforesaid Caleb Dorsey deceased."
So Endorsed and sent to the Lower House by John Ridout Esq
Adjourned until Monday Morning ten of the Clock

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