64 Assembly Proceedings, November 16-December 23, 1773.

U. H. J.
Liber No. 36
Dec. 13

Read the second Time in this House the Bill entitled "An Act to
Confirm 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 will Pass. So En-
dorsed and sent to the Lower House by Philip Thomas Lee Esq.^r

Read the second Time in this House the Bill Entitled "An Act
for the Relief of sundry Inhabitants of Potapsco Lower Hundred
in Baltimore County;" and will Pass with the following Amendments
Viz.^t "Provided always that before the said Road shall be opened
and established the Inhabitants of the aforesaid Hundred shall by
Petition apply to the Justices of Baltimore County Court to appoint

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three disinterested and substantial Freeholders of the said County
for laying out the said Road and ascertaining and allowing to the
Owner or Owners of the Soil through which the said Road shall be
opened and established such a Sum of Current Money as shall be a
full Recompence to such Owner or Owners for the Damage and In-
convenience which shall happen to him her or them from the Opening
and Establishing such Road And the said Freeholders who shall be
appointed by the said Justices shall before they proceed to open and
lay out such Road and ascertain and allow such Recompence to the
Owner or Owners as aforesaid take an Oath to do their Duty in this
Behalf without Favor or Prejudice to the best of their Skill and
Judgment And be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid that after
opening and laying out the Road aforesaid and ascertaining and
allowing a Sum of Money for the Purpose of such Recompence as
aforesaid to the Owner or Owners of the said Soil the said Free-
holders shall return a full Certificate thereof to the next County
Court of the said County and the Justices of the said County Court
shall at the next November Court after the return of such Certificate
assess rateably on the Taxable Inhabitants of the said Hundred the
Sum ascertained and allowed as aforesaid to the Owner or Owners
of the Soil aforesaid by the Freeholders aforesaid with the Publick
and County Levies together with Five Per Cent to the Sheriff for
Collection which said Sum shall be Collected by the Sheriff of Balti-
more County of the Taxable Inhabitants of the said Hundred in like
manner as other Levies are by Law collected and paid to the Owner
or Owners of the Soil aforesaid without deduction." so Endorsed
and sent to the Lower House by John Ridout Esquire

Mess:^rs Johnson and Paca bring up a Bill entitled "An Act for
more effectually preventing the Buying and Selling of Offices," 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.

Adjourned until to Morrow Morning Ten of the Clock