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Maryland ss :
At a Session of Assembly begun and held by Several Pro-
rogations at the City of Annapolis in the Province of Mary-
land on Wednesday the tenth Day of October in the ninth
year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King George &ca
and in the Seventh of his Lordships Dominion &c Annoq Dom
1722.
Present
The Honrble Charles Calvert Esqr Governour
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U. H. J.
Original
p. I
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The Honble
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Col Wm Holland
Col Samuel Young
Col Richard Tilghman
Col Matt. Tilgh: Ward
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James Bowles Esqr
John Rousby Esqr
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Members of the Upper House
Mr Robert Tyler and Col John Mackal from the Lower
House acquaint his Honour that there is a Sufficient number
of Burgesses met to make an House
Whereupon Order'd that Col. William Holland and Col
Samuel Young go to the Lower House and administer, ac-
cording to Act of Assembly the several Oaths appointed to be
taken to the Government to the several Members of that
House; & that the Clerk of this House attend them
They return and say, that they have administred the said
Oaths as appointed to the several Members then present being
forty six in number and that they also Severally subscribed
the Oath of Abjuration and Test.
Col Richard Tilghman and Col M. Tilgh Ward are ordered
by his Honour the Governour to acquaint the Lower House
that his Honour requires them to attend him in the Council
Chamber immediately
They return and say they have delivered their Message.
Whereupon the whole House attending His Honour re-
quires them to return to their own House and make Choice of
a Speaker.
Col John Mackall and Mr Robert Tyler from the Lower
House acquaint his Honour, that their House had made Choice
of a Speaker
1 Prorogued from October 9th. See Lower House Journal, p. 401.
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