Ordered that the Clerk of this Board draw an Order on
Col Charles Hammond Treasurer of the Western Shoar pay-
able to M^r Onorio Razolini or Order for forty Pounds Sterling
being his years Salary as Armourer of this Province ending
the 4^th Instant, to be paid out of the Money arising by the
Duty of 3^d p hh^d for Arms

At a Council held in the House of his Excellency the Governor
in the City of Annapolis on Tuesday the 31^st of July in the
twenty fifth year of his Lordships Dominion Annoq Domini

1739

Present

His Excellency Samuel Ogle Esq^r Governor

Ihe honble

Benjamin Tasker Esqr Philip Lee Esqr George Plater Esqr Edmund Jenings Esqr

James Hollyday Esqr Col Charles Hammond Col Levin Gale James Harris Esqr

Ordered that the Clerk of this Board procure the Attorney Generals Opinion in Writing relating to the following Case An Assembly was convened the first Day of May Anno Domini 1739 which sat until the 12th Day of June following when it was prorogued After the Prorogation and during the Interval of Assembly Two Lres of which the annexed are Copies were sent to the Judge of the Land Office and Secretary Also a Letter was signed S: Bordley of which the Copy is annexed to the Deputy Clerk of the Assembly Office, who delivered the Key mentioned in that Letter, in Pursuance of such Letter to S: Bordley, who by that Means had Admission in the Absence of the Deputy Clerk of the Assembly Office, into such Office. Whether any Members of a Lower House of Assembly can legally assume any Authority or act as a Committee of that House after a Prorogation, and during the Interval of Assem- bly by Virtue of any Order made by such House

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