210 Assembly Proceedings, September 25-November 2, 1770.

L. H. J.
Liber No. 54
Sept. 26

this Session and report the same to the House The several Papers
communicated by his Excellency were read a second Time and
referred for Consideration on Wednesday next

Ordered, That the Matter recommended in his Excellency's Speech
relative to the Criminal Law be taken into Consideration on Thurs-
day the fourth Day of October next
Ordered, That M.^r Gale, M.^r Selby, M.^r N. Thomas, M.^r Hooper
M.^r Bordley, M.^r Worthington, M.^r Ward, M.^r Ware, M.^r Hollyday,
M.^r Johnson, M.^r Chase, M.^r Luckett, M.^r J. Paca, M.^r Gantt, M.^r W.
Thomas, M.^r Tyler and M.^T W. Paca be a Committee of Grievances &
Courts of Justice
M.^r Ward, M.^r Goldsborough, M.^r Tilghman, M.^r J. Hall, and
M.^r Bordley, a Committee of Elections and Privileges.
M.^r Goldsborough, M.^r Wright, M.^r Hooper, M.^r Gilpin and M.^r
Aq Hall a Committee of Accounts —

M.^r Tyler, M.^r Mackall, M.^r Hooper, M.^r Harrison, M.^r J. Hall,
M.^r Purnell, M.^r Griffith, M.^r Gantt, M.^r Selby and M.^r W. Thomas
a Committee to inspect into the several publick Offices and report
to the House the State and Condition of them —

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Ordered, That the Committee of Grievances and Courts of Justice
do forthwith publish in the Maryland Gazette their Hour and Place
of Sitting during this Session

Benedict Calvert Esq from the Upper House delivered to M.^r
Speaker the following Message

By the Upper House of Assembly September 26.^th 1770
Gentlemen,

This House hath appointed Benedict Calvert and Walter Dulany
Esquires to join the Members of your House, named by you for the
Purposes in your Message of this Morning by Mess.^rs Grahame and
Worthington.
Signed by Order U Scott Cl. Up. Ho.

William Fitzhugh Esq from the Upper House delivers to M.^r
Speaker the Petition of Abraham Barnes of Saint Marys County,
praying an Act may. pass to cure the Defect in the Acknowledgment
of a Conveyance made by Josiah Conant to William Thornton, thus
indorsed "By the Upper House of Assembly September 26.^th 1770
Read and referred to the Consideration of the Lower House of
Assembly —
Signed by Order U Scott Cl. Up. Ho."

Which Petition was read here and ordered to lie on the Table.
The House adjourns till To-Morrow Morning Eight O'Clock