1650. 18 CÆCILIUS Lord BALTIMORE For St. Mary's Hundred,2 St. Inegoe's, - - - - - 1 St. Michael's,- - - - -2 St. George's, - - - - 2 Newtown, - -- - - - - 3 St. Clement's - - - - - 1 Kent-Island, - - - - - 1 Providence, - - - -- - 2 14 The Separation of this Assembly into Two distinct Houses, was confirmed by an Act passed the first Day of their sitting, a Copy whereof is here inserted; and the Lower House chose Mr. James Cox, one of the Burgesses for Providence, to be their Speaker, and William Bretton for their Clerk. CHAP. I. Passed 29th April 1650. An Act for settling of this present Assembly. L.O. Lib. N° 3. fol. 49. BE IT ENACTED by the Lord Proprietary, with the Advice and Consent of the Council and Burgesses of this Province now assembled, That the present Assembly, during the continuance thereof, be held by Way of Upper and Lower House, to sit in two distinct Houses, apart, for the more convenient Dispatch of the Business therein to be consulted of: And that Mr. John Hatch, Mr. Walter Beane, Mr. John Medley, Mr. William Broughe, Mr. Robert Robins, Mr. Francis Posie, Mr. Philip Land, Mr. Francis Brooke, Mr. Thomas Matthews, Mr. Thomas Sterman, Mr. George Manners, Burgesses for St. Mary's County, Capt. Robert Vaughan, Commander and Burgess for the Isle of Kent County, Mr. George Puddington, and Mr. James Cox, Burgesses of that Part of the Country now called Providence, or any Five or more of them, for the Lower House, together with the Clerk of that house for the Time being, who shall from Time to Time assemble themselves, at the Time and Place to be by the Governor (or whomsoever of the Council he shall, by Writing under his Hand, depute for that purpose) from Time to Time appointed, during this present Assembly, shall have the full Power of, and be, Two Houses, or the major Part of both of them, and Enacted or Ordained by the Governor, shall be Laws of the Province, after Publication thereof under the Hand of the Governor, and the Great Seal of the Province, as fully, to all Effects in Law, as if they were Advised and Assented unto by all the Freemen of the Province personally. Vol 1 168 Assembly Proceedings, September 1642. 5 September 1642 morning Assembled Liber M C p. 248 Governor Captain Cornwaleys Mr Giles Brent Mr Secretary Mr Surveyor Genl David Whitcliffe George Pye Mr Greene Mr Clerk Appeared Nathaniel Pope } Joseph Edlo John Norman John Halfhead John Cockshott } Cuthbert Fennick Jo: Holderne Richard Cope Andrew Monroe Robert Perry John Cook Daniel Clocker Mr Weston Cyprian Thorowgood Nicholas Herby Mr George Binks John Hollis Carp Jo: Weywill Thomas Franklin Thomas Hebden Francis Posie by their Proxie Mr Thos Greene } by their Proxie Capt Thomas Cornwaleys p. 249 by there Proxie Fra Posie