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Dorchester County Calvert County
M^r John Brannock M^r Benjamin Mackall
Coll^o William Ennales M^r Walter Smith
M^r Peter Taylor Major Adderton Skinner
M^r John Kirk

Cecil County Queen Anns County
M^r Thomas Johnson M^r Augustine Thompson
Coll^o Ephraim Augustine Her- Captⁿ William Elliott
man M^r William Hemsley
M^r Stephen Knight Major W^m Turbutt
M^r Joshua George

L. H. J.

By the House of Delegates Oct^r 3^d 1728
Ordered
That James Harris and John Beale Esq^rs go to acquaint the
Governor that a Sufficient number of the Gentlemen elected by the
Severall and respective ffreemen of the Province of Maryland to
compose an House of Delegates are convened at the Stadt house.
They return and say they Delivered their Message
Coll^o Matthew Tilghman Ward Benjamin Tasker Esq^r and
George Plater Esq^r Clerk of the Councill from the Upper house
came into the Stadt house in whose Presence the said returned
Members of the Lower House except those marked absent took the
Oaths of Allegiance Abhorrence and Abjuration to his Present
Majesty King George the Second repeated the Test and Signed the
said Oaths and Test.
Soon afterwards came the Honble Phillip Lee and Nicholas
Lowe Esq^rs from the Upper House and informed the said Repre-
sentatives that the Governor required their immediate Attendance
in the Councill Chamber, who thereupon went, and were there re-
quired by the Governor, to return to their House and Choose a
Speaker, they Complied Accordingly and unanimously chose Coll⁰
John Mackall a Member returned to serve for Calvert County to
be their Speaker, Placed him in the Chair, and Presented him to the
Governor in the Usual manner where the said M^r Speaker decently
and Submissively addressing himself to the Governor offered sev-
erall reasons disabling himself from serving in that Station and
therefore made humble Suit to him to be discharged and that he
wou'd be Pleased to Command the Delegates to make choice of an
abler Person, which Excuses the Governor would no Ways admit

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of, being well Satisfied of the Skill & Knowledge of the said John
Mackall in the Publick Affairs of the Province and required him In
the Lord Proprietors name to Accept of the said Place.
After which M^r Speaker in the name of the whole house of Dele-
gates humbly desired the Governor on the Lord Proprietors Behalf

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