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no bill brought from your house pursuant to the said Resolve
wherefore we Desire to know what you have done therein
Signed p Order Joh Beale Clk Upper house

M^r Benson and M^r Contee Deliver his Honour the Gov-

U. H. J.

ernour an Engrost Bill Impowering a Comittee to lay Assess
and Apportion the Publick Levy for this present year One
Thousand Seven hundred and Twenty one which is thereto
thus written Viz.
August the 4^th 1721
Read and Assented to by the lower house of Assembly and
Signed p Ord^r M: Jenifer Cl. Lo. Ho.

Col Wool ford and Col Harman from the lower house De-
liver his Honour the Governour the following Message Viz.

By the low^r house of Assembly

August the 4^th 1721
May It please your Honours

In answer to the Message of M^r Bowles relateing to Officers
frees we take leave to Acquaint you that this house in their
humble Address to his Lordship of this day have fully Aprized
his Lordship of The reasons Induceing us to make no Addition
to the late regulation which we are perswaded will be Satis-
factory to his Lordship of whose wisdom and Goodness we
have had such ample Assurances as perswades us to believe
his Lordship will never be Induced to lay greater Burthens
on his faithfull Tenants than their Circumstances will bear
Signed p order M Jenifer Cl. Lo. ho.

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The foregoing Message relateing to the building of Brick
Chimneys in the City of Annapolis Oxford and Upper Mal-
brough Sent to the Lower House by Col Ward who returnes
and sayes he Delivered the same
The Engrost Bill Empowering a Comittee to Lay Assess
and Apportion the publick Levy for this Present year one
thousand seven hundred & twenty one, being read is theretc
thus Written Viz.
August the 4^th 1721
Read and Assented to by the Upper House of Assembly
Signed p order Joh Beale Cl. Up. ho.

Which paper bill of the aforesaid Engrost Bill Sent to the
Lower House by Esq^r Lloyd who is requir'd to Acquaint then
that the aforesaid Engrost bill is Assented to by this House

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