482 Assembly Proceedings, July 11-August 8, 1732.

L. H. J.

Coll^o Herman from the Committee of Elections & Priviledges
Delivers M^r Speaker the following Report.

By the Committee of Elections & Priviledges 28^th July 1732

Your Committee having Inspected the Writt & Examined the
Indentures of Robert Gordon Esq^r A Member returned for the
City of Annapolis do find him duly Elected, Which We Submit to
the Consideration of the House.
Signed p Order John Gibson Cl. Com.

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The House Concur with the said Report.
Resolved that any Members found Absent at any time when the
House is called over shall Lose his Days Allowance unless Excuse
made to. the Speaker and by him Allowed.
Benj^a Tasker Esq^r from the Upper House Delivered to M^r Speaker
the bill Entituled a Supplementary Act to the Act Entituled an Act
to Encourage the making of Linen &c. And the bill Entituled an Act
to Enable the Clerk of the Provincial Court or the Clerk of Balte-
more County Court to Record a Deed of Bargain and Sale from
Benony Fanning &c. Severally Indorsed thus,

By the Upper House of Assembly 27^th July 1732
Read the first time and Ordered to Lye on the Table.
Signed p Order J Ross Cl. Up. Ho.

And thus, [See page 399.]
Which bill severally read here and passed for Ingrossing
A Bill Entituled an Act for the Speedy recovery of small Debts
out of Court before a Single Justice of the peace, Read the first time
& Ordered to lye on the Table.
The House Adjourns untill two of the Clock in the Afternoon

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Friday Afternoon,

The House met according to Adjournment, The Members Called
& all Present as in the Morning Except M^r Wright and M^r Mathews
The Bill Entituled an Act for laying out a New fifteen Acres of
Land part of one Hundred Acres of Land formerly Erected into a
Town commonly called Benedict Leonard Town &c. Read the second
time and passed. Sent to the Upper House by Coll^o Hanson and M^r
Middleton, They return and Say they Delivered the Same.
Coll^o Tilghman from the Upper House Delivered to M^r Speaker
the following Message. [The text of this message is printed at
page 399.]
The following Message [The text of this message is printed at
page 400.] Sent to the Upper House by M^r Crabb and M^r Read.
They return and Say they Delivered the Same.