386 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1722.

             Lib. x. Resolved that the third Tuesday in July will be a proper

                  time to call a new Assembly

                    Ordered that Writts issue Accordingly returnable the third

                  Tuesday in July

                  Maryland sst

                  By the Honourable Charles Calvert Esqr

                        Capt General Lieut Govr &c.

                              A Proclamation

                    Whereas there is no Emergent Occasion for the meeting

                  of the Assembly at the day it is adjourned to and that the

                  three years the usual Term of the Assemblys Continuance

                  since the Election of the present Members of the Lower

               p. 40   House will expire the fifteenth day of May next I have

                  thought fit with the advice of his Lordships Council of State

                  to dissolve this present Assembly and I do hereby dissolve

                  the same and I do strictly charge and Command the several

                  Sheriffs of this province to publish this my proclamation in

                  their Several Counties in the most publick manner to the end

                  that all Persons Concern'd may have Notice as they will

                  Answer the Contrary at their perill Given at Annapolis this

                  9th day of April in the 7th year of the dominion of the right

                  Honourable Charles Absolute Lord and proprietary of the

                  province of Maryland and Avalon Lord Baron of Baltimore

                  &c. Annoq Domini 1722

                    At a Council held at Annapolis July the at his Excel

                  lencys House in Annapolis aforesaid 1722

                            Present in Council

                 The honble Charles Calvert, Esqr Governor

                              Colo William Holland

                              Colo Samuel Young

                    h h bl Phile: Lloyd Esqr

                 t e on e     Colo Richard Tilghman Councillors

                              James Bowles Esqr

                              Colo M T Ward

                    A Letter from Daniel Dulany Esqr his Lordships Attorney

                  General declaring his opinion whether upon a New Election

                  of Assembly men their meeting may be prolong'd beyond the

                  lime mentioned in the Writs of Election notwithstanding

                  they had not met and chose a Speaker was laid before the