Maryland ss.
Att a Session of Assembly begun and held by Prorogation
at the City of Annapolis in the said Province of Maryland
on Wednesday the sixth day of October In the Eleventh year
of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King George in the
Tenth of his Lordship the Lord Proprietarys Dominion &c^a
Annoq Dom 1725.
Present

The Hono^ble Charles Calvert Esq^r Governour

U. H. J.
Calvert
Papers
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Col^o William Holland

John Hall Esq^r

The Hono^ble

Col^o Thomas Addison
James Bowles Esq^r

Members of the
Upper House

Philip Lee Esq^r

Benjamin Tasker Esq^r

M^r Ralph Crabb and Robert King from the Lower House
Acquaint his Hon^r the Governour that there are a Sufficient
number of Members met to make a House and wait his
Hon^rs Commands
Thereupon Coll William Holland and Addison are sent
down to the Lower House to Administer the several Oaths to
the Government appointed to be taken by Act of Assembly
to the several Members of that House and Ordered that the
Clerk of this House attend them.
They Return and say that they Administred the said Oaths
to the several members then present, being Thirty four in
number and that they all Severally Subscribed the Oaths of
Abjuration and Test.

John Hall Esq^r is sent down by his Hon^r the Governor to
acquaint the Lower House that his Hon^r requires their attend-
ance in the Councill Room Imediately. Who returns and says
he Delivered the Message
Whereupon the whole House attend on his Hon^r and he
requires them to return to their own House and make Choice
of a Speaker
M^r Mackall and M^r Courts from the Lower House acquaint
his Hon^r that their House had made Choice of a Speaker
Whereupon James Bowles and Philip Lee Esq^r are ordered
to goe and Acquaint the Lower House that his Hon^r requires

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