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can remain with his L^pp not to put that Method in Execution,
is, the tender Regard he has for his Tenants, who must labour
under vast Difficulties to comply with it; It is therefore upon
this Consideration, that I have his L^pps Command, to offer
to the Country, the renewing the Revenue Bill as it now
stands, for three Years longer; Which is an Instance, His
Lordship preferrs the Interest of the Country to his own, and
which I do not doubt, You are sensible of
Cha. Calvert.

The further Consideration whereof is referr'd till to mor-
row morning & then
The House adjourn'd till to morrow Morning Eight of the
Clock

L. H. J.

Friday Morning July the 15^th 1726

The House meets according to Adjournment. Yesterdays
proceedings are read.
On reading his L^pps Answer to the severall Addresses of
this House The Question was put whether the revenue Act
shall be revived or not.
Carried in the affirmative.
Resolved that no Petitions be reced after Monday next.
Nicholas Lowe Esq^r from the Upper House delivers M^r
Speaker the following Message viz.

By the Upper House of Assembly

July the 15^th 1726
Gentlemen.
We have thought fit to propound to your House before We
pass the Bill for adding part of Baltemore to Annard^l County
that it seems to us very reasonable, in order to enlarge Calvert
County now seated by a small Number of Inhabitants, that
that part of Ann Arundell County which includes the South
side of Lyon's Creek Branch as farr as Abraham Simmond's
Plantation leaving his House and Orchard in Ann arundell
County and running with an Easterly Line to the head of
Parker's Branch and from thence down Parker's Branch to
Herring Creek including the South Side in Calvert County
and the North side in Ann Arundell County be added thereto,
which will greatly ease the Inhabitants of the said County and
not lessen Annarundell County by a Considerable number so

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