The Upper House. 409

Eodem Die post Meridiem
This house met again according to Adjournment
Present as in the Morning with the Addition of Col Ward.

Two Bills from the Lower house by M^rs Matthews & Hemsley,
One Entituled an Act reviving and continuing an Act of Assembly

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of this Province Entituled an Act for the speedy recovery of small
Debts out of Court before a single Justice of the Peace; the Other
Entituled an Act to continue an Act Entituled an Act for raising a
Duty of three Pence p hh^d on all Tobacco exported out of this
Province for the Uses therein mentioned severally thus endorsed

By the Lower house of Assembly 21 April 1736
Read the first time & ordered to lye on the table
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl Lo H.

By the Lower house of Assembly 22 April 1736
Read the second time and will pass
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl Lo H.

Read the first time in this house & ordered to lye on the Table
His Excellency is pleased to communicate his Answer to the Ad-
dress of this House in the following Words

Gentlemen of the Upper House of Assembly
I return you my hearty Thanks for your kind Address: I am very
sensible of the just Regard you have always had for the true In-
terest of the Province; therefore cannot but be well satisfied of your
Readiness to join in all such Measures as tend to promote its
happiness and Prosperity
Sam: Ogle

Two Bills from the Lower house by M^rs Key and George One
Entituled an Act for continuing an Act of Assembly of this Prov-

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ince Entituled an Act to prevent cutting up Tobacco Plants destroy-
ing of Tobacco and Tobacco houses and for ascertaining the Pun-
ishment of Criminals guilty of the said Offences, the Other Ent^d
An Act for the building a Court house and Repository for the
Records in Leonard Town in S^t Marys County, severally thus
Endorsed

By the Lower house of Assembly 21 April 1736
Read the first time & Ordered to lye on the Table
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl Lo H

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