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be finall, but if any p son shall be Obstinate and not agree
upon a Choice then the Major part of the Commissioners to
pceed to Determine the bounds in dispute from whose De-
termination there shall be no Appeal but to England where
the matter in Controversy amounts to the Value of three

U. H. J.

hundred pounds sterl of which the said Comissioners are to
be Judges.
Signed p Order John Beard Cl Up Ho.

Sent p Col Tilghman and M^r Lowe who return and say
they Delivered it
Capt Daniel Mariartee and one other bring from the Lower
House a Bill for the Relief of severall poor Prisoners therein
Contained
Passed by that House And being Read is Passed by this
And so Endorsed And sent down by M^r Henry Lowe who
Returns and Says he Delivered it.

The House Adjourns till Afternoonn

Post Mediem
The House meet According to Adjournment
Present as before noon

M^r Tobias Pollard and two others from the Lower House
with the foll^o Engrost bills Viz.
A Bill for supplying Defects in a Conveyance of Land from
John Cary John Burridge & Geo. Cole to Pere: Browne
Merch^t Dec^d

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A Bill for Removing a Court House from Charles Town in
Prince Georges County, and for the building a Court House
for the said County at the Town of Marlbrough in the said
County, And for makeing Sale of the old Court House and
Prison
Both Read and assented to by that House And being Read
are assented to by this And John Hall Esq^r Sent to Acquaint
the Lower House thereof.
M^r Robert Tyler & M^r John Ward from the lower House
with the following message

By the Lower House of Assembly

May 6^th 1718
May It Please Your Excy & Hon^rs
On Reading and Considering the Petition of Thomas Cook
referred from the upper House And also upon Viewing the

Work dune to the Magazine for Arnica, We find that he has

Expended much more than what was to be paid him by the

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