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    Dwelling House so as it could not be opened without Great       Lib. X

    Force and that when he returned the next time to his said

    plantation, he found the dwelling house door open And a

    Taylors Shop made of his Out House or Bad Stove

      And this Deponent further declares that George Deakins

    the Surveyor of New Castle County assured him that his

    Plantation was not inclosed in the twelve Miles Circle and

    further saith not                Adam Short

        November the 3d 1721

      Sworn to before the Governor and Council

      Ordered that the several Sheriffs within this Province forth

    with cause the several Constables within their Bailiwick to

    take an account of all the white Taxable men and of all

    Negroes Men Women and Children in different Colums and

    return a fair List thereof to this Board by the next Provincial

    Court.

      The Board adjourns till to Morrow Morning Eight a Clock

                    November 4th 1721

      The Board meet again according to Adjournment

                        Present                                       p. 26

          His Honour Charles Calvert Esqr Govr

                  Colo Samuel Young

                  Colo Thomas Addison

                  John Hall Esqr              Members of his

    the honble    Phile: Lloyd Esqr          Lordships honble

                  Colo Richard Tilghman          Council

                  Col M T Ward

                  James Bowles Esqr

      His Honour the Governor desires the Advice of this Board

    what will be a proper time to Prorogue the Assembly to

      Resolved the 20th of February next be a proper time

      Whereupon its Order'd that proclamation be prepared to

    prorogue the Assembly to that time accordingly which procla

    mation being prepared is as follows vizt

    Maryland sst

                By the Captain General &Ca

                     A Proclamation

      Whereas the present General Assembly of this province

    now stands prorogued until the first tuesday in December

    next I have thought fit by and with the advice of his Lord-