The Upper House. 441

related to the Nomination of Comm^rs (as we conceive) doth not
consist in the manner of Appointm^t so much as the due Qualification
& fitness of the persons Appointed to the Office
We therefore propose it to your farther Consideration whether
the Gov^r be not as duely & Aptly Qualified to the Nomination of
Commissioners or Trustees for the due Execution of the Act in the
first instance thereof, as he will be in the Secondary nomination upon
the Death or removeall of any or every of the Comm^rs after such
Appointment or Nomination, and therefore hope you'l Agree to the
Amendm*
Signed p Order John Ross Cl. Up. Ho.

M^r Beale and M^r Sprigg from the Lower House Acquaint his
Excellency that their House hath no Business before them
Philemon Lloyd Esq^r is sent to the lower House to Acquaint the
Speaker and the whole House that his Excellency requires their At-
tendance in the Upper House to see the Laws passed this Session,
receive the Assent
The whole House attend & by their Speaker present to his Excel-
lency the following Laws

U. H. J.

(The Act Entituled an Act to prevent Bribery & Corruption in the
Election of Citizens or Delegates to Serve in Assembly for the City
of Annapolis; An Act for Ascertaining the form of the Oath of
Judge or Justice; An Act ¹ for the Tryal of all matters of fact in the
severall Counties where they have Arisen or shall Arise, the Continu-
ance of Causes in the Provinciall Court and Adjournment of that
Court; An Act for laying an Imposition on Tobacco by the Hogshead
for Support of Government and for payment of his Lordships Quitt
Rents and Alineation fines for the time therein mentioned; An
Act for the Continuance of S^t Mary's County Court; Baltemore
County Court and Talbott County Court from the first Tuesday of
August untill the first Tuesday in November next and for the farther
Continuance of Causes in the said Courts, which were Signed and
Assented to before) which his Excellency the Governor Signed
and Assented to on behalfe of the Right Honourable the Lord Pro-
prietary of this Province, and Sealed with His Lordships Great Scale
at Arms the Titles of which Laws are as follows, Viz.

Chapters I,
IV, V, XIII,
XXXIV
p. 243

An Act for Relief of Ann Osborn of S^t Mary's County
An Act to Prohibit raising of Swine Sheep & Geese in the Town
of Chester in Kent County.

Chap. II

" III

An Act for the Erecting a Town on the South side of Chester River
in Queen Anns County, for laying in Lotts Sixty Acres of Land at

¹ Continued by 17,36, ch. 22 and expired in 1740.