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your House in expediting them for the Service of our Queen
& Country
And then M^r Speaker and the Delegates repaired to their
House
The Petition of M^r William Glen Rector of S^t Peter's Parish
in Talbot County complaining that M^r Daniel Sherwood high
Sherriff of Talbott County refuses to pay him the 40lb p poll
arising in that Parish in the year 1708 under pretence of his
not being inducted until the 18th July in that year
And the said M^r Sherwood being called in and asked why
he refused so to do says he was not well satisfyed the whole
40 lb tob^{o
p poll for that year was due to Mr Glen or that he
was safe in paying it Whereupon it was the opinion of this
Board that the whole 40 lb Tobo
p poll for that year is due to
Mr Glen according to Law and ordered the said Sherriffe pay
the same to him without further Trouble or delay
The Council adjourned until nine to Morrow Morning}

U. H. J.

Thursday October the 27th 1709

The Hon:ble Council Sate Present as yesterday
M^r Storey and M^r Guybert present M^r Thomas Frisby one
of the Delegates for Cecil County to be sworn and qualifyed
which was done in their Presence
M^r Philemon Hemsley and five other members of the House
bring up the following Answer Viz.

By the House of Delegates Octob^r 27th 1709

May it please your Honours
We have considered your Honours Speech and shall dili-
gently apply ourselves to raising a Supply to defray the
publick Charge of this present year
We shall take it well all Letters lately received be laid before
us that we may know her Majesty's Pleasure and Commands.
But as to the matter of Licences to Ordinary Keepers and the
Tob^{o
paid for them we have traced the Original & Progress
thereof and neither find it a certain Duty to be always con-
tinued on such useful Subjects nor necessarily affixed to the
Secretary's Office but only sometimes by Accident permitted
to such Gentlemen who were Secretarys and further we con-
ceive it a thing so contrary to right & reason and the Equality
and Indifference of Justice and so nauseous & so odious to
Subjects to have a tax imposed on one sort of Subjects to be
applyed to the enriching of one only Subject who not so much
as sets pen to paper for it nor has more than a bare Colour of}

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