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And we humbly take leave to Assure your Honour that
we shall use our utmost Endeavours to give Dispatch to the
publick business and promote that happy Unanimity Recom-
mended by your Honour and so much desired by this House.

Subscribed by all the Members then present.
To which his Hon^r made the following Reply.

Gentlemen of the Upper House of Assembly
I Return you my hearty Thanks, for your most kind Ad-
dress to me and am Extreemly pleased my Endeavours to
serve the countrey, are so Acceptable; I shall upon all oc-
casions Continue my best Endeavours, in that way, having
nothing more at Heart then the Prosperity of the province.
12^th Octo^r 1725 Cha: Calvert

The Petition of John Fitz Patrick a languishing Prisoner
in Prince Georges County Goal and the Petition of William
Maynard a languishing Prisoner in Cecill County Goal, were
Read and ordered to be severally thus Endorsed viz.

By the Upper House of Assembly Octo^r the 11^th 1725

The within petition being read is referred to the Considera-
tion of the Lower House.
Signed p order Geo. Plater Cl Up Ho.

U. H. J.

Sent down by John Hall Esq^r who returns and says he
Delivered them.
M^r King and M^r Dashiell attend with Coll^o John Mackall
a Member Elected for Calvert County to see him Qualified.
Whereupon the said John Mackall takes the Oaths to the
Governm^t appointed to be taken by Act of Assembly and Sub-
scribes the Oath of Abjuration and Test according to the
Direccon of the said Act and then they withdrew.
This House adjourns till to Morrow Morning Eight of the
Clock

Tuesday Morning October the 12^th 1725

Met again according to Adjournment Present as yester-
day.
And soon after appeared Samuel Young Esq^r
The Petition of Orlando Griffith of Ann Arundell County

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