PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

GENERAL ASSEMBLY

OF THE

PROVINCE OF MARYLAND

At a Session held at Annapolis May 1-June 12, 1739.
Being a Convention of the Assmbly Elected in 1739.

CHARLES CALVERT, LORD BALTIMORE,
Proprietary.

SAMUEL OGLE,
Govenor.

	PROCEEDINGS THE UPPER HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY
	At a Convention of Assembly begun and held at the City of An- napolis on Tuesday the first Day of May in the twenty fifth year of his Lordships Dominion Annoq Domini 1739 Present His Excellency Samuel Ogle Esqr Governor The Benjamin Tasker Esqr Edmund Jenings Esqr honourable [George Plater Esqr Col Charles Hammond Messrs Hanson and Denton from the Lower House acquaint his Excellency that there is a sufficient Number of Members met to make a House and wait his Excellencys Commands Edmund Jenings Esqr & Col Charles Hammond are sent down to the Lower House to administer the several Oaths to the Govern- ment appointed to be taken by Act of Assembly of this Province to the several Members of that house and ordered that the Clerk of this House attend them, who administred the said Oaths to the several Members then present, and they all subscribed the Oath of Abjuration and Test. Benjamin Tasker and George Plater Esqrs are sent to acquaint the Lower House that his Excellency requires their Attendance in the Upper House immediately. 14	U. H. J. May I Calvert Paper No. 734 p. 1 [A contem- porary copy is found in U. H. J. Liber No. 33.] The Assembly had been prorogued from July to October, 1738 (28 Archives 140) and on October 1 proclama- tion was issued to further pro- rogue it to May 20. On October 20 procla- mation was issued to dissolve it