142 Assembly Proceedings, April 26-June 3, 1715.

L. H. J.

County shall not by Virtue thereof only be received or allowed
of by the Sheriffs unless such Voter be a Resident or Inhabi-
tant in such County where he tenders such Vote or unless he
have a Freehold therein.

2 That the Number of Delegates to serve for each County
be reduced to two for the better Dispatch of Business and
lessening the publick Charge; and only one Member for the
City of Annapolis and that the Allowance for each Day's
Attendance to every Councillor be one hundred and ten
Pounds of Tobacco; to every Delegate one hundred Pounds
of Tobacco; to every Provincial Justice one hundred Pounds
of Tobacco and nothing be allowed for Boats or Ferriages the

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Itinerant Charges being as this Committee humbly offers
originally designed to satisfy all Charges of Itineracy.
Signed p Order John Beard Clk Com.

The House adjourns till One O'Clock in the Afternoon.

Thursday Afternoon

The House met according to Adjournment. Present as in
the Morning

The House took into Consideration the Report of the
Committee of Laws brought down to the House by Mr Thomas
Bordley in the Morning and concur with the first Paragraph
thereof Nemine contradicente. And as to that Part of the
Report that relates to reducing the Delegates in each County
from four to two; the Question is put and is Resolved by
Majority of Votes that the Number be reduced to two from the
first Election that shall happen hereafter to serve as Delegates
for the County and one for the City of Annapolis. And as
to that Part of the said Report that mentions reducing the
Allowance for each Days Attendance in Assembly Times to
every Councillor from what it is at present to a hundred and
ten Pounds Tobacco and no more; to every Delegate a hun-
dred Pounds and no more and to every Provincial Justice a
hundred Pounds of Tobacco and no more and no Charges to
be allowed for Boats or Ferriages —
Resolved the House concurs therewith and thereupon it is
Ordered that the Committee of Laws prepare and bring in a
Bill accordingly.

The Petition of Thomas Reynolds high Sheriff of Ann
Arundel County being read this Day in the House praying a
further Allowance to be added to his Salary of a thousand five
hundred Pounds Tob^o for conveying publick Letters and
Packets is rejected.