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as to the other 2^s & 3^d p hh^d payed to her Majesty & Lord
Baltimore
The same is not in their Disposal
The Council adjourned 'till 8 of the clock to morrow
Morning

Fry day Octob^r 29^th 1703

The Council in Assembly again Sate Present as Yesterday
Came L^t Col Tho^s Smith and M^r John Hall with the Jour-
nal of the Committee of Accompts for this present Sessions
which was assented to by this Board.
The said Committee also humbly offered to the Board that
this years public Levy in regard of the small Crops of Tob^o
made this present year 1703 occasioned by the late Seasons
early Frosts & Great Gusts might be paid out of the publick
mony in Bank at the Rate of ten Shill. for every hund^d pounds
of Tob^o which was also agreed to
Came M^r Tilghman and M^r Hutchinson from the House of
Delegates and bring up a Bill for reviving some temporary
Laws and a Bill for apportioning the publick Levy assented to
by the House which were again Read and assented to by the
Council and sent to the House
Then came M^r Tilghman from the House of Delegates &
acquainted his Honour the President that the House were
ready to attend him in Council in order to Conclude this
present Sessions and is told that the President and Council
are ready to receive them
Whereupon came M^r Speaker and the Members of the
House & presented the Act for reviving some Temporary
Laws and an Act for apportioning the publick Levy which
said Acts on behalf of her most Sacred Majesty Queen Ann
of England &c the Honble President & Council Willed to be
Laws & Subscribed them the Great Seal having been first
affixed thereto in the Presence of the General Assembly
Which s^d General Assembly was by the President &
Council Prorogued until the fourth Day of January next
Ensuing
William Bladen Cl Council

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