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of this house are Magistrates of the said County and other Members
Practitioners in the said Court whose Attendance in this House
will not permit them to Attend the said Court, And moved that a
Bill be brought in to Continue the said Process in the said County
till next November Court.
Ordered that a Bill be brought in Accordingly.
Daniel Dulany Esq^r and Twelve other Members are ordered to
Deliver the Address to his Excellency,
They return and Acquaint M^r Speaker that they Delivered the
same

L. H. J.

The Question was put whether a bill be brought in for a paper
Currency, Carried in the Affirmative.
Ordered that the Act for the Tryal of all Matters of fact in the
County Courts be revived and revised this Assembly.
The House Adjourns till to Morrow Morning Eight a Clock.

p. 294

Thursday July 15^th 1731

The House met according to Adjournment, The Members were
Called and all Present as Yesterday, The proceedings of yesterday
were read.
A Motion being made by a Member of this House to bring in a
Bill to Allow a Bounty for making Linen within this Province of
flax or Hemp of the Growth thereof, A Bill ordered to be brought
in Accordingly.
M^r Speaker Delivers to this House his Excellency's the Govern-
our's Answer to the Address of this House of Yesterday which
follows in these words.

Gentlemen.
I return you my Sincere thanks for your kind Address; And, by
my Zeal for your Prosperity, I shall Endeavour to make you the best
returns I may be Able, for so much good Nature & Affection as you
have therein Expressed.
Bened^t Leon^d Calvert.

Benjamin Tasker Esq^r from the Upper House Delivers M^r Speaker
the following Petitions
The Petition of William Nimmo thus Endorst,

By the Upper House of Assembly 15^th July 1731.

Read and referred to the Consideration of the Lower House of
Assembly
Signed p Order Jn^o Ross Cl. Up. Ho.

July 15