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And the proceedings on Yesterday were read.
Resolved that 22 members and the Speaker be a sufficient
number to proceed on any Business.

L. H. J

The petition of Thomas Macnemara Clerk of this house
praying that in Regard in Aprill Assembly 1715 It was
ordered, that he should be payed all his allowances in Ann
Arundell Calvert and Prince Georges Countys, and that not-
withstanding such order, the Com^ee for laying and apportion-
ing the publick levy last year ordered him above ten thousand
pounds of Tobo part of his allowance in Somersett County
whereof he could not gett any part that he may be allowed
Something for the difference in Goodness between the Tobo
of that County and the Tobo of the said three Countys was
Read and Rejected nemine Contradicente

Mr Tyler from the Comittee of Aggrievances delivers Mr
Speaker the Petition of Alexander Mackey to them referred
for examination with the following Report thereon Endorsed

By the Comce of Aggrievances
July 25th 1716

Upon reading the within Petition and hearing the allega-
tions as well of the within named Alexander Mackey by his
Council in relation to the premises within Contained as one
Richard Thatcher against the bringing in the bill within
prayed as also upon due examination made into the papers
by both partys to us produced, Wee find the said Richard
Thatcher to have a deed bearing date after the deed within
mentioned Executed by the within named Robert Hughes for
the within land and acknowledged before one of the Justices
of Salem County in the Province of West new Jersey and
Recorded in Cecill County Records, and the consideration
mentioned, in the said deed is the sume of Thirty pounds
current money of America which consideration sume the said
Thatcher offers to give his oath to the true payment thereof
which is more then doeth appear to us in favour of the said
Alexander Mackey in Relation to his right to the said land
nor does the said Mackey make appear any consideration
payd his deed mentioning no certain Sume and further the
said Thatcher alleadges that the said Mackey was privy when
he was treating to buy the said land of the said Hughes, and
told him that if he bought the land for the Consideration afd
he would have a good bargaine but did not acquaint him of
any right he had to the said land by a purchase from the said
Hughes all which wee referr to the consideration of the house
Signed p order John Beale Cl. Comce

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