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The Bill for Religion &c^a Read the third time and Resolved
it doe passe
The Peticonary Bill for confirmeing land to the Church in
Calvert County
Read the 3^d time and will passe
The Ordinance relateing to the Collector and Navall Offi-
cer of Pottomack River sent up to his Ex^cy and Councill by
Maj^r Whittington and M^r Elisha Hall
They returne and say they have delivered the same
Orderd by the house that the said following discharge be
Recorded in this Journall viz^t

May 28 1699

By Virtue of an Act of Assembly of this Province in em-
powering W^m Hutchinson to buy and purchase for me the
three Negroes I doe acknowledge to have recd from the sd
W^m Hutchinson three Negroes named John Sarah and Eliz^a
as Wittness my hand the day and date abovesaid
Ninian Beale
Testis James Stoddard
X^opher Thompson

M^r Thomas Blake High Sherriffe of Calvert County being
brought here to answer his contempt in not forwarding the
publick pacquetts from this house
And forasmuch as the said Blake haveing noe reasonable
excuse to offer this house for such his Contempt

P. R. O.

It is Resolved that he be fined 500^lbs Tobb^o and Order^d that
the Comittee of Accounts deduct the same from his Sallary
and make it payable to Dan" Canning the Serjeant Attendant
for his Expedicon
A Peticon of James Baker read as followeth viz^t

To the Hono^ble Thomas Smithson Esq Speaker to the
Hono^ble house of Assembly and the rest of the hono^ble Assem-
bly now sitting
The humble Peticon of James Baker to the Assembly

Humbly Sheweth
That yo^r Petitioner is a very ancient and Poore man very
infirme and Weake and hath faithfully served this hono^ble
house of Assembly these nine years and upwards as severall
of yo^r hono^rs well know
That the last Sessions of Assembly yo^r hon^rs were charri-
tably inclined to Joyne together in Purchaseing your poore

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