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Resolved that the County be divided as prayed and that
the same be referred to the Comittee of Laws to prepare a
Bill for that Purpose
Comittees are all sent out
The Committee of Election and Priviledges enter the House
and p^rsents to the house there reporte as follows :
This Committee haveing before them the Writt for Election
of one Dellegate to Serve for Calvert County and haveing
Examined and inspected the said returne doe finde and
reporte that M^r W^m Parker is duely Elected and Chosen a
Dellegate to Serve for Calvert County and Indentures thereof
returned accordingly
Jno. Stanley Clk Com^ee of Elecⁿ & Priv^ge

M^r Parker being called into the house
It is ordered that Maj^r Walter Smith and M^r Elisha Hall
goe with the said Parker to his Ex^cy and Councill to see him
sworne.
They returne and say they have seen him sworne
The house adjournes till 2 o Clock

Post Merediem

Eod. Die The house mett againe and were called over
Present as in the morning and M^r W^m Parker a Member
for Calvert County appeared and took his place
Coll^l Jno Hammond and Francis Jenkins Esq^r enter the

P. R. O.

house and delivers to M^r Speaker a Petitionary bill for con-
firmeing Land &c^a. Ordered to be read tomorrow morning
likewise M^r W^m Bladen Clk of his Maj^ts honoble Councill
brought with him the Association and Test to be signed by
M^r Loyd and M^r Parker which being signed p M^r Loyd and
M^r W^m Parker
M^r Bladen withdraws
A Bill for the Service of Allmighty God and Establishment
of the Protestant Religion.
Read the 1^st time and Orderd to be read tomorrow morning
Thomas Tench and Robt Smith Esq^res enters the house and
delivers to M^r Speaker an Accot of his Ex^cys disbursem^ts which
follows

May 2^d 1700 The Province of Maryland D^r to his Ex^cy the
Govern^r

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To Bills of Exch^e lent the Countrey and Sent

£. s. d.

by Coll Beale to Coll^l Addison to pay the
rangers

200. 00. 00