but how the said Samuel Hyde became entitled to the said lands it doth not appear.  It
appears to your committee, from the information given to them by the agent of this state, that the
petitioners, in the course of last year, bonded with him for the whole of the said tract of land called
the Widow's Lot, at a price equal to the full value of the said lands, and that the petitioners are
in indigent circumstances, and probably would not be enabled to comply with their purchases, unless
some indulgence is afforded them by the legislature.  Under all the circumstances of the case, your
committee are of opinion that it would be right to afford some relief to the petitioners, by allowing
them three years to pay off their bonds, given to the agent of this state for the purchase of said
lands, in deferred stock of the United States, they paying one third of the principal, and the whole
of the interest, yearly, in deferred stock; they therefore submit the propriety of the following resolution:
    RESOLVED, That John Patterson, James Steele, James Nesbett, Daniel Norris, Hugh Lyon
and John Sterett, and each of them, be allowed to pay and discharge each of their respective bonds,
given to the agent of this state for the purchase of a tract of land called the Widow's Lot, lying
and being in Cæcil county, in deferred stock of the United States, in three payments as follows:
One third of the principal and the whole of the interest of each of their respective bonds to be paid
on or before the first day of December, seventeen hundred and ninety-seven, one other third of the
principal and the whole of the interest of the remaining two thirds of each of their respective bonds
to be paid on or before the first day of December, seventeen hundred and ninety-eight, and the remaining
one third, with the interest thereon, to be paid on or before the first day of December, seventeen
hundred and ninety-nine, and upon such payments being made and completed, the treasurer
of the western shore is required to deliver up to the party or parties so making and completing the
same his or their respective bond or bonds.
        All which is submitted to the house.
                                                                By order,                                    Z.  HUGHES, clk.
Which was read.
    Mr. Nicholson, from the committee, brings in and delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, An act
to revive an act of assembly therein mentioned; which was read the first time and ordered to lie on
the table.
    On the second reading the bill for the payment of the civil list, and other expences of civil
government, the question was put, That the treasurer of the western shore be allowed the sum of
£. 700 per annum?  Determined in the negative.
    On motion, the question was put, That the treasurer of the western shore be allowed the sum of
£. 650 per annum?  Resolved in the affirmative.
    On progression in reading the said bill, the question was put, That the treasurer of the eastern
shore be allowed the sum of £. 165 per annum?  Determined in the negative.
    The question was then put, That the treasurer of the eastern shore be allowed the sum of £. 175
per annum?  The yeas and nays being required, appeared as follow: