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to your own Use three fourth Parts of the Moiety of the Im-
post of two Shillings p Hhd on Tobacco appropriated as
aforementioned by the said Act And you are to take especial
Care that according to the Intention of the said Act the re-
maining fourth Part of the Moiety of the said Impost be duly
applied towards maintaining a constant Magazine with Arms
and Ammunition for the Defence of our said Province.
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Article 27. And you are to recommend to the next General
Assembly the raising of such other Supplies from Time to
Time as may be sufficient for defraying the other necessary
Charges of that Government
The House adjourns till to Morrow Morning Eight O' Clock
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Thursday Morning 12th May 1715
The House met according to Adjournment. Present as on
Yesterday
Then was read the Proceedings of this House on Yesterday
The Petition of Thomas Hynson Wright as Guardian to
John Coursey to confirm Lands &ta being read this Day in
the House the Consideration thereof is referred till next Ses-
sions and Parties against whom Remedy is prayed Viz. the
Heirs of Henry Coursey, Deced are to have Notice by deliv-
ering a Copy of the Petn and the Indorsement thereon made.
Colo John Mackall from the Committee of Laws delivers Mr
Speaker the Bill for Relief of Peter Sewall a languishing
Prisoner in Calvert County which was read the first and second
Time by especial Order and ordered to be thus indorsed Viz.
By the House of Delegates
May the 12th 1715
Read the first and second Time by especial Order and will
pass.
Signed p Order Tho. Macnemara Cl. Ho. Del.
Mr Thomas Bordley from the Committee of Laws delivers
Mr Speaker the following Report Viz.
By the Committee of Laws
May the 12th 1715
It is humbly proposed that the Act directing the Manner of
electing & summoning Delegates be reenacted with the fol-
lowing Amendments Viz.
That the Votes of psons having a visible Estate in any
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