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through the Inclemency of the Weather, a sufficient Number
of Members of the Lower house in Town to make a House ;
and Proclamation issued accordingly.

15^th Decem^r 1747
Council Present as yesterday

Ordered by his Excellency the Governor with the Advice
of this Board that the present General Assembly which was
this Day to have met at the City of Annapolis be further pro-
rogued to Wednesday the 16^th of December Instant and
Proclamation issued accordingly.

16^th Decem^r 1747
Council Present as yesterday

Ordered by his Excellency the Governor with the Advice
of this Board that the present General Assembly which was

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this Day to have met at the City of Annapolis be further pro-
rogued to Thursday the 17^th Instant and Proclamation issued
accordingly.
17^th Decem^r 1747

Council Present as Yesterday and Col Lloyd.

Ordered by his Excellency the Governor with the Advice
of this Board that the present General Assembly which was
this Day to have met at the City of Annapolis be further pro-
rogued to Friday the 18^th Instant and Proclamation issued
accordingly.
18^th Decem^r 1747

Council Present as yesterday.

Ordered by his Excellency the Governor with the Advice
of this Board that the present General Assembly which was
this Day to have met at the City of Annapolis be further pro-
rogued to Saturday the 19^th Instant and Proclamation issued
accordingly.
His Excellency is pleased to lay before this Board the fol-
lowing Letters, which were inclosed to him by Richard Lee
Esq^r and as he says, were picked up in the Road way by a
Negro belonging to a near Neighbour of his
Oh Conscience Conscience at length thou hast overcome
me and forced me to throw down my cursed Commission,
with these few Lines of my too late Repentance and Confes-
sion of my Crimes, & I beg that whoever takes them up, may
carry them immediately to his Excellency the Governor of
Maryland; that Measures may be taken in time, to counter-