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The further Consideracon whereof is Referr'd till next

Sessions and ordered that the Justices of Ann Arrundell
County have notice to Appear then to answer the Charge Ag^t
them.
Cap^t Henry Hooper haveing represented to this House that
some persons have industriously rais'd a Report that in the
Last Session of Assembly He propos'd that the Children of
Debtors should be sold towards the discharge of the Debts of
their parents in order to bring a Scandall on the said Hooper
as a Member of this House,
It is the opinion of this House that the said Report is false
scandalous and Groundless no such thing haveing been offered
by the said Hooper in or to this House.
M^r Speaker Communicates to this House his Hon^r the
Gov^rs Answer To the address of this House of Yesterday and
is as follows Viz.

Gentlemen.
I Return you my sincere and hearty Thanks for Your Kind
Address and shall Alway's Readily Concurr in Any thing
that can be for the Reall Good of this province
Cha: Calvert

Col^o Addison from the Upper House delivers M^r Speaker
the Petition of Abel Makepeace on behalf of himself and
severall others praying that on transporting themselves and
familys to setle the back parts of this province they may be
Levy free for a Certain Term of years Thus Endorst Viz.

By the Uper House of Assembly March the 17^th 1725

The within petition being read is recomended to the con-
sideracon of the Lower House of Assembly
Sign'd p order Geo. Plater G. Up. Ho.

Which was Read and referr'd till next Sessions for further
Consideracon
The following Report bro^t in from the Comittee of Ag-
grievances Viz.

By the Comittee of Aggrievances
March the 17^th 1725
It is represented to Your Comittee as an Aggrievance that
the Inhabitants of this Province are denyed the Benefite of the
use of the publick Records in the Secretarys and Comissarys

L. H. J.

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