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is duly elected to serve as a Delegate and Representative for
Baltimore County.
Signed p Order Tho^s Bordley Cl Com.

M^r Richard Colegate enters the House and ordered M^r Hall
and M^r Philips attend him before his Excellency and Council
to see him qualified
They return and say they saw him sworn
M^r Richard Colegate a member for Baltimore County enters
the House & took his Place. M^r Richard Colegate added to
the Committee appointed to inspect the Land Law.
The Report of the Committee of Aggrievances in the Rela-
tion to the Abuse of Tobacco freighted was again read, and
resolved a Bill be brought in for relief &^ta as follows
That all masters of Ships and other Vessels shall give Secu-
rity Officers in Penalty of £ 100 Sterling that they shall not
prize, squeese, crop, lessen, diminish, or any otherwise deface
any Freighters Tobacco that shall be taken on Board any such
Ships or Vessels that do not exceed the Gauge of Hhds and
likewise under the Penalty of £ 3 Sterling for every Hhd of
Tobacco so defact upon Proof thereof made by the Oath of one
Witness, or by a Certificate thereof made under the Hand and
Seal of some Custom House Officer in England one third to
her Queen's Majesty, one third to Informer, the other third to
the Party grieved
3 That all Naval Officers be obliged to affix this Law in
some publick Place in his Office on Pain of forty shillings.

L. H. J.

Col^{o
Thomas Ennalls enters the House and delivers Mr
Speaker the following Message Viz.}

By his Excellency the Governor and Council in Assembly
April 7^th 1707

Upon the House's Message by M^r Frisby and five others
desiring a Conference with some of her Majesty's Honble
Council in order to consult the placing and Securing the publick
Arms & Ammunition his Excellency has directed the Honble
Col^{o
John Hammond, Colo
Francis Jenkins, Colo Edward Lloyd,
and Colo
Thomas Ennalls to confer with the members ap-
pointed by the House of Delegates to settle that matter upon
the first Notice given them the Place to be appointed by the
Conferees. Signed p Order W Bladen Cl. Co.}

Upon reading the aforegoing Message it is ordered that
Col^o John Contee, M^r Greenfield, M^r Young, and Col^{o
Pearce
attend the Conferrence, and make Report thereof to the}

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