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to comand any members of this house that may give any
further light therein they shall be ready to attend your Ex^cy
when your Ex^cy shall see convenient.
Signed p Order
W Taylard Clk. house of Delegates.

And sent up to his Ex^cy and Councill with an old Booke of
Laws and Iournall of the Councill of Governour Copleys time
with directions to shew to the Councill what scrutiny is made &^c
The Comittee of Laws enters the house and Presents M^r
Speaker with the follow⁸ Bills &^c
Bill for Conveying Iurours to the Prov^ll Court from the
Easterne Shore.
Bill for Releife of Kent and Calv^t Cou^tys
Bill for Needles about Mann's Testam^t
Ordered they be read in the afternoone.
The house adjournes till one a Clock in the afternoon.

Post Mered. The house mett againe, according to adjourn-
ment, And being called over, Were p^rsent as in the morning.
M^r Phill^o Loyd and George Muschamp Esq^r say they Deliv-
ered the Message of the morning.
A Bill for confirmeing a certaine wrighteing to be the last
Will and Test^t of Edward Mann. Read the 1^st & 2^d time and
doe pass.
A Bill for Releife of Kent and Calvert Co^tys Read 1 & 2^d
time & doe pass.
Bill for Conveying Iuro^rs to Prov^ll Courts from the Eastern
Shoare.
Read the first and second time and comitted for amend-
ment (that the Sherrife have but fower hundred pounds of
tobb^o) and that the jury men of the Westerne Shoare shall
have free passage over fferrys at the charge of the publick.
Leiu^t Coll^o Thos Smith brought into the house.
A Bill prohibiting Horce races on Saturdays.
Read the first time and comitted for Amendm^t
The Peticon of Richard Bishop Junior of Talbott County
being hear read and considered, The pet^r is referred to com
Law for Releife.
Tho^s Brooke Esq^r and Coll^o Edward Loyd from his Maty^s
honble Councill enters the house and delivers M^r Speaker the
foll^o Bills and Ordenances, viz^t
A Bill for naturalization of Hermanus Schee and others.
Read the first and 2^d time and doe pass.
And Likewise an Ordnance relateing to Sailors, w^ch being
read the house concurrs therewith and Ordered it be entred
as followeth viz^t

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