Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1769-1770. 349

such of them as shall meet the Commissioners appointed or
to be appointed for the said neighbouring Colonies shall with
all convenient speed after such Meeting or Meetings make
full and perfect Report or Reports of such Regulations or
Plan as they shall agree upon in Conjunction with such other
Commissioners as are or may be appointed by the Legis-
latures of the said Neighbouring Colonies to the Governor
and Assembly of this Province for the Time being in order
that a proper Law or Laws may be passed if the said Report
or Reports shall be by them approved. And be it further
enacted by the Authority aforesaid that Provision shall be
made for Paying the reasonable Expences which shall accrue
on the part of this Province in Performance of the Service
aforesaid, when the amount thereof shall be known by some
future Act or Acts of General Assembly to be passed for that
purpose.
Signed by Order of the House
Joseph Galloway, Speaker
Passed by the Governor the 24^th day
February in the tenth Year of his Majesty's
Reign Annoque Domini 1770
By his Honour's Command
Joseph Shippen Jun. Sec^ty

I William Parr Esq^r Master of the Rolls in and for
the Province of Pensilvania do hereby Certify the
[Seal] foregoing Law to be an Exemplification or true
Copy of a Record remaining in my Office in Book of
Laws A Vol^o 5. Page 337 and In Testimony of which
I have hereunto set my Hand and caused the Seal
of Office to be hereunto affixed this 2^d day of March
Annoque Domini 1770.
Will. Parr Mas^r of the Rolls.

Whereupon after Reading the aforegoing Papers, and
mature Deliberation thereon this Board humbly Advised his
Excellency to lay them before the General Assembly at their
next Meeting, and to acquaint Governor Penn therewith.
Read the following Petition of James Richards of Baltimore
County.

To His Excellency Robert Eden Esq^r Governor of Mary-
land.

The Petition of James Richard of Baltimore County.
Most humbly sheweth unto your Excellency.
That on the Twenty first day of March in the year of Our
Lord Seventeen hundred Sixty and Nine having then thro'

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