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Coll^o Richard Tilghman from the Upper House Delivers M^r
Speaker the following Message. [The text of this message is printed
at page 210.]
The following Message [The text of this message is printed at
page 211.] Sent to the Upper House by Cap" Gordon and M^r
Knight, They return and say they Delivered the Same.
The House Adjourns till to Morrow Morning Eight a Clock.

L. H. J.
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Wednesday July the 28^th 1731.

The House met according to Adjournment Called & all Present
as Yesterday, The proceedings of Yesterday were read.
John Hall Esq^r from the Upper House Delivers M^r Speaker the
following Message. [The text of this message is printed at
page 211.]

July 28

The following Message [The text of this message is printed at
page 211.] Sent to the Upper House by Maj^r King and M^r George
Robins, They return and say they Delivered the same.
The Bill for laying out the Town a New called Marlborough
Town in Prince Georges County And for Ascertaining the bounds
thereof, was read the second time & will pass
Sent to the Upper House by M^r Magruder and Coll Joseph Belt,
They return and say they Delivered the Same,
The House Adjourns till Two a Clock in the Afternoon.

Post Meridiem.

The House met according to Adjournment, Called and all present
as in the Morning.
The Honourable Charles Calvert Esq^r William Holland Esq^r
John Hall Esq^r Philemon Loyd Esq^r Coll. Richard Tilghman,
Mathew Tilghman Ward Esq^r John Rousby Esq^r Benjamin Tasker
Esq^r Phillip Lee Esq^r and Coll. John Rider Deliver M^r Speaker
a Bill for the better Securing the Government of this Province En-
dorst thus,

By the Upper House of Assembly 28^th July 1731.
Read the first time and Ordered to Lye on the Table.
Signed p Order. J. Ross Cl. Up. Ho.
And thus.

By the Upper House of Assembly 28^th July 1731.
Read the Second time and will pass.
Signed p order J. Ross Cl. Up. Ho.
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