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Act. for regulating Ordinaries is Likewise revived for the
same time
We most Humbly Acknowledge the Tender regard your
Lordships Express for the Encouragement of Learning here
And have great reason to be Concerned that your L^dps favour-
able Indeavours for the Application of the duty on Tob^o Ex-
ported from Plantation to Plantation are not likely to prove so
Effectuall as is Wish't for the Propagation of Schools in this
Province And we shall with great Alacrity Embrace any Op-
portunitys that your Lordships shall favourably Offer to so
good & pious An End.
And we most unanimously Offer to your Lordships our
Joynt & most Sincere Acknowledgment for the repeated fa-
vours bestowed on us from time to time by your Lordship for
whose Long & prosperous Lives (as in Duty bound) we shall
offer up our prayers to Divine Providence.

Which being Approved off by this house is signed by the
severall memb^rs following Viz.
W^m Holland Samuel Young
John Hall Tho^s Addison
Phil Lloyd Matt. Tilghman Ward

And Sent to the Lower house to be signed by the Several
members thereof.

U.H.J.

Col Holland sent down to the Lower House to acquaint M^r
Speaker that his Excy requires him & the whole house to
Attend him Imediately in the Councill Chamber who returns &
says he Delivered the same.
Whereupon M^r Speaker and the whole House attend his
Excy And saw the following Acts sealed with his Lordships
Greater Scale of this p vince and Assented to by his Excy
on behalf of the Right Honble the Lord Propr^y of this Prov-
ince Viz.
N^o I. An Act for the Naturalization of Herman Kinkee
a Dutchman & his Children Peter Manadoe a Frenchman &
his Children of Cecill County, John Laviel a Frenchman of
Calvert County Ja^s Parandier & John Parandier of Charles
County.
2. An Act for the vesting in the Rector and Vestry of Wil-
liam & Mary Parish in S^t Marys County & their Successors
an Estate in ffee Simple in the old State house in S^t Mary's
City in S^t Mary's County and the Lott of Land whereon the
same Stands for the use of the said Parish for Ever
3. An Act for the reliefe of Ephraim Cover & to Invest him
with an Estate in ffee Simple in the Lands therein menconed

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