432 Assembly Proceedings, April 13-May 6, 1761.

U. H. J.
Liber No. 35
May 6
p. 489

By the Lower House of Assembly 6^th May 1761
Read the second time and will pass
Signed p Order John Allen Thomas Clk Lo. Ho

A Bill by Messrs Baker and Purnell from the Lower House of
Assembly Ent^d an Act to preserve the Breed of Fish in the River
Susquehannah thus endorsed
By the Lower House of Assembly 24^th April 1761
Read the first time and ordered to lye on the Table
Signed p Order John Allen Thomas Clk. Lo. Ho

By the Lower House of Assembly 6^th May 1761
Read the second time and will pass
Signed p Order John Allen Thomas Clk Lo. Ho

Adjourned till 3 of the Clock in the Afternoon

Eodem Die post Meridiem
This house met again According to Adjournment

Present as in the Morning
Read the second time the Bill Entituled An Act for encouraging
a Collection and Publication of the Laws of this Province, and with
the Amendments herewith sent will pass
In the 8^th Line of the first page after the word the same put
the honble The Proviso in the second Page to be omitted and also in
the same Page after the Word Clerk in the Enacting, Clause, leave out
the Words to the End of that Clause and insert the following Words,
who shall attend the said Committee, shall be allowed for his ser-
vice the Sum of 112 lbs w.^t of Tobacco p Day In the second Proviso
Page 3^d Leave out the Words, and more especially such the force
or Existence whereof have been anyways questioned or disputed,
and in the said Proviso in the 4^th Line Leave out the Words and
Appendix, And the Words in the 3^d Page, And for the Encouragm^t
of the said Thomas Bacon and the Better to enable him to print and
publish so useful a Work Leave out the Rest of the Clause and
instead thereof insert as follows Viz^t Be it Enacted by the Authority
af^d that there shall be allowed to the said Thomas Bacon the several
sums of Current Money in the several Counties within this Province
following to Wit in Baltimore County the sum of 31..10..0 in Ann
Arundel County 27..0..0 in Charles County 25..0..0 in Prince Georges
County 24..0..0 in Frederick County 22..0..0 in Queens Anns
County 21...15.. 0 in St Marys County 21..0..0 in Kent County
19.. 1 5.. 0 in Talbot County 19.. 5.. 0 in Somerset County £19..0..0 in
Worcester County 18..5..0 in Cecil County 18..0..0 in Calvert County
13...0.0 in Dorchester County 20..0..0 Which said respective Sums
of Money to gether with the Sheriffs Salary of 5p Centum for