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Eodem Die Post Meridiem
Met according to Adjournment
Present
His Honour the Governour

U. H. J.

The Honblej

fCol W^m Holland
| Col Sam: Young
1 John Hall Esq^r
[Col Tho^s Addison

Col Rich. Tilghman
Col M. Tilgh Ward
James Bowles Esq^r
John Rousby Esq^r

Members of the Upper House

A message from the Lower House by M^r Benjamin Tasker
and M^r Lambert Wilmer which is as follows Viz.

By the Lower House of Assembly

February the 27^th 1721
May it please your Honours
In Answer to your Message of yesterday by Col Addison
with the Bill for the Relief of sundry poor Prisoners &c^a This
House are willing to allow Thomas Jobson late Coaler of An-
napolis Three Thousand pounds of Tobacco and to the present
Coaler Charles Rivers three Thousand Pounds of Tobacco
more in full for their Fees which if your Honours think
Reasonable, we desire the Bill may pass in your House
Signed p ord^r M: Jenifer Cl. Lo. Ho.

Whereupon the said Bill is read a second Time and ordered
to be thus endorsed viz.

By the Upper House of Assembly
February the 27^th 1721
Read and will pass with the Allowance to the Goalers
mention'd in your Message by M^r Benjamin Tasker and M^r
Lambert Wilmer

Signed p Ord^r Sam^{ Skippon Cl. Up. Ho.

And the said Bill thus Endrosed is sent by Col Thomas
Addison to the Lower House who returns and says he deliv-
ered it.
The petition of the Rev^d M^r Jacob Henderson Commissary
of the Western Shore, to his Honour the Governour relating
to the Affairs of the Church in Baltemore County and the
Encreasing the Parish of S^t Margaret's Westminster, in Anne
Arundel County into a Competent Maintenance for a Minister
of the Church of England having been laid by his Honour

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