The Upper House. 307

Defaults on Execution" We agree to the Passage of that Bill,
according to its Original Frame, tho with the Amendment we pro-
posed the Bill would, in Our Opinion, have been more perfect
Signed by Order T: Wright Cl: Lo: Ho:

Mess.^rs Ringgold and Baxter bring up the following Engrossed
Bills Read and assented to by the Lower House of Assembly.
A Bill Entitled a Supplementary Act to the Act Entitled an Act
for erecting a new Parish in Kent County, called Chester Parish,
and for building a Parish Church, and enlarging a Chapel of Ease
within the said Parish.

A Bill Entitled An Act to impower the Justices of Somerset and
Worcester Counties, to levy on the Taxable Inhabitants of Stepney
Parish, in Somerset and Worcester Counties, the Quantity of One
hundred and Sixty Thousand Pounds of Tobacco, for the Uses
therein mentioned.

The House proceeded in taking the Testimony of Evidences, upon
the Petition for and against the Removal of the Court House in
Baltimore County, and heard Council for and against the said
Removal.
Adjourned until to Morrow Morning 10 of the Clock

U. H. J.
Liber No. 36
June 16

Friday Morning 17,,^th June 1768.
This House met again according to Adjournment.
Present as Yesterday

Read and referred the Petitions of Robert Dick, Richard Hender-
son, Daniel Stevenson, James Brown and Robert Peter, also the
Petitions of Eleanor Duvall, John Marshall, and John Scrogin,
Sent by Samuel Chamberlaine Esq.^r
A Bill, by Mess.^rs Hall and Gale, Entitled An Act for amending
and declaring the Law in the Cases therein mentioned.

Read the first and second time in the Lower House and will
Pass,

Read the first time in this House and Ordered to lye on the
Table
Read the second time in this House the Bill Entitled An Act
for the Security of Purchasers and others, being Protestants, Claim-
ing by or from Aliens, and will Pass with the following Amend-
ments Viz.^t Leave out the Words "being Protestants" in the Title
and in the Tenth and Seventeenth lines and the Words "being a
Protestant or Protestants" in the 24^th line and in the 27,,^th and 28^th
lines and the Words "any Papist or Papists or" in the last line but
two, and also in the last line but one, Sent by John Beale Bordley
Esq.^r

June 17