PROCEEDINGS

THE UPPER HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY
October 3-November 2, 1728.

Maryland ss. At a General Assembly of the province of Maryland begun and held at the City of Annapolis the third day of October Anno Domini 1728 in the second year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the second and in the fourteenth year of his Lordships the Lord Proprietarys Dominion &c. being the first Session of the present General Assembly Were Present His Excellency Benedict Leonard Calvert, Governor

U. H. J. Liber P No. 32 p. 339. [Original not to be found] October 3

The honble

Colo William Holland Colo Richard Tilghman Colo Mathew T. Ward John Rousby Esqr

Benjamin Tasker Philip Lee Esqrs Nicholas Lowe Charles Calvert

Members of the Upper House

James Harris and John Beale Esq^r from the Lower House at-
tend & acquaint his Excellency that there are a sufficient number of
members met to make a House and proceed upon Business and
wait his Excellencys Commands

Whereupon Col^o Mathew Tilghman Ward and Benjamin Tasker
Esq^r are sent down to the Lower House to administer the Oaths
appointed to be taken to his present Majesty King George the Sec-
ond to the Several members of that House.

Ordered that the Clerk of this House attend them

They return and say they have Administered the said Oaths to the
several Members then present being in number forty four and that
they all Subscribed the Oath of Abjuration and Test.

Philip Lee and Nicholas Lowe Esq^rs are sent down to the Lower
House by his Excellency the Governor to acquaint them that he
requires their attendance in the Council Chamber immediately

Who return and say they delivered their message

Whereupon the whole House attend on his Excellency and he
requires them to return to their own House and make Choice of a
Speaker

The whole House again attend on his Excellency and present