PROCEEDINGS AND ACTS

OF THE

GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND

At a Session held at Annapolis July 7-July 29, 1740.
Being the Second Session of the Assembly Elected in 1740.

CHARLES CALVERT, LORD BALTIMORE,
Proprietary.

SAMUEL OGLE,
Governor.

	PROCEEDINGS THE UPPER HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY
	At a Session of Assembly begun and held at the City of Annapolis on Monday the seventh Day of July in the twenty sixth year of his Lordships Dominion Annoq Domini 1740 Present His Excellency Samuel Ogle Esqr Governor Major Genl Matt. Tilg: Ward Edmund Jenings Esqr Benjamin Tasker Esqr Col James Hollyday Philip Lee Esqr Col Charles Hammond George Plater Esqr Col Levin Gale	U. H. J. Calvert Paper No. 736, page 1. An attested copy of the Proceedings made by John Ross and trans- mitted to the Lord Proprietary Oct. 28, 1740. July 7
	Messrs King and Sprigg from the Lower House acquaint his Excel- lency that there is a sufficient Number of Members met to make a House and wait his Excellencys Commands Benjamin Tasker and George Plater Esqrs are sent to acquaint the Lower House that his Excellency requires the Speaker and the House to attend him in the Upper House The Speaker and Lower House attend and his Excellency is pleased to make the following Speech Gentlemen of the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly His Majesty having given Orders for the Equipping and setting forth of an Expedition, against the Territories of the Catholick King in the West Indies, and having been pleased to send his Royal Instruc-	[See also U. H. J. No. 33]