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ingly on behalf of the publick by the Virtue of the Act aforesaid
we have Contracted and Agreed with them the said Vachell

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Denton and Edward Griffith for the transcribing new Alpha-
beting and Carefully Examining such Records as we shall
think requisite from Time to Time to deliver them at the Rate
of three Pence Curr* Money of Maryland p side for every
Side they the said Vachell Denton and Edward Griffith or
either of them shall transcribe or Cause to be transcribed of
the said Records (to be computed according to the common
computation established by a Law of this Province and prac-
tis'd among Officers) untill the same shall be Compleated and
Ended which three pence p side we find by the Act of Assem-
bly aforesaid is to be paid by the Publick and therefore we
propose that the same shall be Ordered unto them the said
Vachell Denton and Edw^d Griffith in the hands of the pub-
lick Treasurers of this Province for the Time being, and
paid the said Denton or Griffith accordingly by Quarterly
or half Yearly Payments, on their making appear to us the
number of Sides they or either of them have or hath tran-
scribed or Caused to be so done within such Quarter or Half
Years Time
All which at the Prayer of the said Vachell Denton and
Edw^d Griffith we Certify in Order that the same (or at least
the Substance thereof) may be entred on the Journals of this
Session, and Sanctioned by both houses accordingly, as a foun-
dation for and certain Rule to them the s^d Vachell Denton
and Edward Griffith in proceeding to the faithful Discharge

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of the Trust reposed in them by the Agreem^t aforesaid the
Execution whereof we humbly conceive to be a matter of
great Consequence to the Country; and are
Your Hon^rs most Humble Serv^ts

October the 18^th 1723. John Beale Sam^l Young
D. Dulany Benj^a Tasker

The Report af^d was agreed to by the House and thus in-
dorsed (viz.)

By the Upper House of Assembly Oct^r the 18^th 1723

The within Report has been Read and is Agreed to by this
House
Signed p Order Sam^l Skippon Cl Up Ho.

And the same is sent to the Lower House by Esq^r Bowles
Adjourned till morning