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MSS.
Archives
of Md.
Black Book
No. 1
Letter 22
Hall of
Records

Prisoner in the said County for debt, and therefore we recommend
him to Your Excellency, and Honours, as an object of Charity
Tho^s Beatty David Lynn
Jos. Smith Mos; Chapline
Cha.^s Jones Jos. Wood
Pet^r Bainbridge Andrew Heugh
W.^m Luckett Tho.^s Norris

I hereby Certifie that Thos. Beatty, Jos. Smith, Cha^s Jones, Pet
Bainbridge, W^m Luckett David Lynn, Mos Chapline Jos. Wood
Andrew Heugh and Tho^s Norris were at the time of Signing the
above Petition of his Lordships the R' Honourable the Lord Pro-
prietary's Justices of the Peace for Frederick County In Testimony
whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Affixed the Public Seal
of said County this 10^th day of March Anno Dom 1760

Jn^o Darnall Cl

III

PROPOSED PUBLICATION OF BACON'S COL-
LECTION OF LAWS

[A BILL FOR THE PUBLICATION OF BACON'S COLLECTION
OF LAWS, PASSED BY THE LOWER HOUSE AND REJECTED
BY THE UPPER HOUSE AT THE SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER SES-
SION, AS PRINTED IN THE MARYLAND GAZETTE.]

Maryland
Gazette
Annapolis
October 30
1760

By the Lower House of Assembly, 15th of October, 1760.

Ordered, That the Bill, entituled, An Act for encouraging a Col-
lection and Publication of the Laws of this Province, with the several
Indorsements thereon, be Printed by Mr. Jonas Green, in the Mary-
land Gazette.

p. 1; col. 1-2

Signed per Order M. Macnemara, Cl. Lo. Ho.

An Act for encouraging a Collection and Publication of the Laws
of this Province.

Whereas the Reverend Thomas Bacon has, with great Pains and
Application, made a Collection in Manuscript of the several Acts
of Assembly of this Province, the Publication whereof may be of
great and general Utility; in order, therefore, that so useful a Work
may meet with due Encouragement, and that the said Thomas Bacon