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your Honble Board you must allow us to know more of their
Oppressions and we offer the properest Remedies we can to
relieve them We have no Design to interrupt a good Cor-
respondence with you and were not conscious to ourselves we
had any just or colourable Reasons you would reject any of
the Bills we have proposed this Session And tho' you say you
have endeavoured to redress the greatest Aggrievances we
represented at the Beginning of this Session we must affirm
and can justify 'twas hardly obtain'd and had not this Assem-
bly been called there would have been no Occasion for our
desiring

We shall not further press your Honours in these Matters
but hope ere Long a Capt. General will arrive fully instructed,
impowered and inclined to relieve us out of the Aggrievances
and Oppressions we must till then passively indure
Signed p Order R. Dallam Cl. Ho. Del.

Sent up to the Honble Council by M^r Hammond, M^r Mari-
artee, M^r Ennalls and M^r Worthington.
They return and say they delivered the same
The House adjourned till to Morrow Morning Nine O'Clock

L. H. J.
Lib. 41

Saturday 15^th Nov. 1712

The House met again according to Adjournm^t Being
called over were all present as Yesterday.
Read what was done Yesterday
Richard Young's Petition praying Liberty to keep and
Stable Horses at the Gate House &^ta Read and Resolved
Liberty be given him to keep and Stable Horses & sell Prov-
ender as formerly used by him and other Gate Keepers.
Resolved M^r Cadwaller Edwards fit up the Office in the
Stadt House that formerly was allotted for the Town Clerk of
Annapolis for the Use of the Clerk of this House in all Re-
spects as the Council Office is now fitted up with Table
Forms, Pidgeon Holes &^ta and to finish the Work by the first
of April next and to be paid by the Public for his Work and
all Necessaries for doing the same seven Pound Current
Money. And Ordered when the Office is fitted up the
Journals and all Papers belonging to the Assembly be lodged
therein and the Clerk of the Secretary's Office have the keep-
ing the same when the Clerk of this is not in Town out of
Assembly Times
Resolved the Clerk of this House record such of the Jour-
nals of this House as are to be found and to be paid for the

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