270 Assembly Proceedings, March — April 1671.

U. H.
Journal
1659-98

And Adjourned the House till to Morrow Morning nine of
the Clock

Wednesday 19^th April 1671

The House met Present as yesterday in the Afternoon ex-
cept The Chancellour

The Lower House by several of their Members acquainted
the Governour & this House that they had dispatched what
Business was before them & desired his Honour that they
might be dismissed
Whereupon his Honour told them that he stayd here for
that purpose.
The Lower House Sent up an Act for payment of publick
Debts Which being read & the Question put
Resolved that the same do pass.

This House desired S^r W^m Talbot to acquaint the Lower
House that the Governour was ready to prorogue this Assem-
bly & to desire them to bring up the Laws Enacted by this
Assembly
Then the Lower House with their Speaker came into this
house with all the Laws made this Assembly.

p. 205

The Titles whereof being read in the presence of both houses
The Governour Prorogued this Assembly
till the Second Tuesday in October next.

Liber
W H &L
p. 48

Acts made att a Generall Assembly begun and
held att S^t Maries in the Prouince of Maryland
the twenty Seventh day of March in the Nyne
and thirtieth yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius
&^ca Annoq Domini 1671.

The Hon^ble Charles Calvert Esq. Gouernour —

To the Right Honb'f the Lord Proprietary of the Pro-
vinces of Maryland and Avalon Lord Baron of Balte-
more —
The humble peticon of Bernard Iohnson of Calvert
County in the said Province of Maryland Cooper William
Nenfinger of Saint Maries County Iohn Gotee and
Margarett his wife of Dorchester County and Stephen
Beson of the Same County all Inhabitants of this Prouince

Humbly Shew vnto your Lordship that your Peticoners Bar-
nard lohnson and William Nengfinger were borne in holland
and vnder the Dominion of the States Generall of the vnited
Provinces John Gottee and Margarett his wife and Stephen
Besson in the Kingdom of ffrance And your Peticoners being