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We have alsoe Order'd the Treasurer of the Eastern Shore

to send for a Fire Engine with a Large Quantity of Buckets
of about twenty pounds Value to be Lodged as you Desire and
have made a Resolve to bring in a Bill to Disable any person
from keeping Publick Houses in the City of Annapolis unless
they build Brick Chimneys as well at Oxford and Upper
Marlburgh
And Sent to the Upper House by M^r Lloyd and M^r Crab.
They Return and say they Delivered it.
Coll Woolf ord and M^r Lloyd Report that the Powder House
is in a Very Bad Condition.
Thereupon its agreed with M^r George Dashiel that he shall
Deliver at Annapolis for the use of the Publick Twelve hun-
dred foot of Quartered sawed Inch Plank Clear of Any Sap
for which he is to be Allowed at the Rate of One Peny p foot
Currency.
The Petition of William Bozman and Sarah his wife being
Read is Refer'd till the next Sessions and Ordered that the
parties Concerned have Notice thereof, that if they think fit
they make their Objections thereto,
Ordered the following Message be prepared Viz.

By the Lower House of Assembly
July the 28^th 1721.

L.H.J.

May it Please your Hon^rs
We have Debated your Hon^rs Message of the 26^th Instant
by Coll: Addison & Coll: Tilghman on the Militia Act and are
Still of the same Opinion as we Mentioned in our former
Message of the 24^th Instant by Coll: Mackall and Coll.
Hynson,
Signed p Order. M. Jenifer Cl Lo. Ho

And Sent to the Upper house by M^r Walter Smith and M^r
Warfield, Who Return and say They have Delivered it.
The House Adjourns till One of the Clock in the Afternoon.

Post Meridiem.

The House Meets According to Adjournment.
A Bill Empowering the Justices of Prince George's County
to Levy twelve pounds of Tobacco p poll on all Taxables
within the said County for the use therein Mentioned was
Read the first and Second Times and past which was so En-
dorst and sent to the Upper House by M^r Lee and M^r Tyler,
Who Return & Say they have Delivered it.

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