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

U. H. J.

incorporated And taking into Consideration the great disad-
vantage the want of Learning & Education is to the Youth of
this Province, And that the same may be remedyed by settling
Free Schools in every County thereof We are heartily con-
cerned that we are obliged to represent to this honourable
Assembly that our Funds will only Enable us to maintain one
School in this Town And that they are very insufficient to
answer the pious design that we are Engaged in, And there-
fore we make humble Application, that this laudable Work
may be taken into Consideration, and Such means used, as the
Honble Assembly shall think proper to Enlarge the Funds for
the promotion of Education and Learning
And whereas we meet with great Difficultys from the great
Distance that the Several Members of our corporation Live
from one another, and that It is almost impracticable for us to
meet & Consult so often as the Nature of our Affairs would
require We humbly Submitt it to the Judgment of the honble
Assembly whither It may not be necessary by a new Law to
Enable any five or more of us to transact our Affairs without
lying under the necessity of having a Majority of the members
present
Further we represent to the honble Assembly that we find
in one of the Journalls of the House of Delegates 6th July 1697
recited that Mr Anthony Workman came before the House &
gave one hundred & fifty pounds sterling to the Building of
an House upon a Lott which his Excellency had already given

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together with ten pounds toward Building the sd House Which
was to be Enjoyed by the said Anthony Workman during his
natural Life, & remain over to the use of Free schools. Also
the said Mr Workman promised to leave all the Improvements
upon the sd Lott in good and safe Repair
And in the Journal of the House of Delegates held in May
1696 folio 38 & 39 the said Workman Enters the House and
says there is fifty pounds in his hands for finishing the House
And prays He may keep Ordinary therein Licence free Which
was granted
Likewise in an Act of Assembly for keeping good Rules
and Orders in the Port of Annapolis made in July 1696 It is
thus Contained
And be It further Enacted by the Authority afd that all those
Deeds Obligations Writings & Evidences made by & between
his Excellency Francis Nicholson Esqr Capt General & Gov-
ernour of this Province of the one part & Anthony Workman
of Kent Island in the County of Talbot of the other and Wm
Freeman Bricklayer of Philadelphia in Pensilvania of the other
part concerning a Lott of Land in the said Town & Building