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generally be employed to make the Copies any of your Com-
mittee shall order and engage to pay the fees for
I am Gentlemen — Your humble Servant
Annapolis Levin Gale

13 July 1739
To D^r Ch^s Carrol & M^r V. Denton
These

By the Lower House of Assembly 4^th June 1739

It being moved that several Journals of the Lower House
of Assembly are missing in the Assembly Office several
Journals of Accounts Treasurers Accounts and other Proceed-
ings of the Lower House that ought to be lodged in the
Assembly Office Ordered that M^r Vachel Denton and Doctor
Charles Carrol make an Enquiry where the same are lodged
and collect the same and make Report thereof to the House
next Session, and that they likewise obtain authentick Copies
of all other Papers they shall have Occasion of for the Use of
the Publick, and that they employ a Clerk to attend them for
the s^d Purposes

Lib. C. B.

True Copy Test W Ghiselin Cl Assist to Cl Lott

Annapolis 23^d July 1739
Sir
In Pursuance of and Obedience to the aforegoing Order
We request you will direct your Clerk of the Land Office to
make out authentick Copies of any of his Lordships Condi-
tions of Plantations or Other Papers or Entries recorded in
the said Office, which he shall be directed to do under Our
Hands by Virtue of the foregoing Order for the Use and on
Account of the Publick of the Province of Maryland We
pray your answer hereto in Writing and are with great Es-
teem Sir
Your most obedient humble Servants
To Levin Gale Esq^r C. Carroll
This V. Denton

Gentlemen
I received your Letter yesterday by M^r Stephen Bordley but
shall part with no Copies of Records out of the Land Office
without some Person engages to pay the usual fees, and on
those Terms the Clerks have Orders to make out any Copies
that shall be called for
I am Gentlemen
Your most humble Servant
To Doctor Charles Carrol Levin Gale
& M^r Vachel Denton
Present.

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