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Debts, &c. Ingrossed, " By the Upper House of Assembly, Decem-
ber 14, 1751. Read the second Time, and will not pass.
" Signed per Order, J. Ross, Cl. Up. Ho."
And the following Message: ( See page 645 )
Ordered, That Mr. Murdock and Mr. Walter Dulany do acquaint
the Governor, that this House hath prepared an Address to him, and
desires to know when and where he will please to receive it: They
return and acquaint Mr. Speaker, that his Excellency signified he
was ready to receive the Address immediately in the Conference
Chamber.
Ordered, That Mr. Murdock, and three more, do present the Ad-
dress to his Excellency.

L. H. J.
Liber No. 47
December 14

The following Message; (See page 646)
Was sent to the Upper House by Mr. Tillotson and Mr. Gillis.
Mr. Charles Goldsborough, from the Committee of Laws, deliv-
ers to Mr. Speaker the following Ingrossed Address; viz.
To his Excellency Samuel Ogle, Esq; Governor of Maryland ;
The humble Address of the House of Delegates.
May it please your Excellency,
In Answer to your Excellency's Message with Governor Phipps's
Letter, in Relation to the Payment of twenty-six Pounds thirteen
Shillings and four Pence, advanced by John Wheelwright, Esq;
Commissary-General of the Massachusetts Bay, for transporting
two Persons who were taken up there on Suspicion of Murder com-
mitted in this Province, this House hath agreed to discharge that
Claim by a Bill to be drawn on Mr. William Hunt, Merchant in
London, by the Treasurer of the Western Shore, for the Sum of
Twenty Pounds Sterling.
And what further reasonable Expence that Government were at
in transporting those Persons from the Eastern Parts of that Prov-
ince to Boston, and maintaining them during their Confinement
there, we shall readily discharge, when Account thereof shall be laid
before us.
As to the Charge attending the Transportation of the Prisoners
from Quebeck to Boston, this House have referred the Consideration
thereof to the next Assembly.
Which was read and assented to, and Signed, by Order of the
House, by the Honourable Speaker.
The House adjourns for an Hour.

Post Meridiem.

The House met according to Adjournment.
M^r Charles Goldsborough from the Committee of Laws delivers
to M^r Speaker the following Address Viz.

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