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Fendall, Who returns and acquaints M^r Speaker with the Delivery
thereof.
Coll^o Rider from the Upper House delivered to M^r Speaker the
followingMessage. [The text of this message is printed at page 6.]
And the Petition of the freeholders & Inhabitants of Chester Town
commonly called new Town in Kent County Indorsed thus.

By the Upper House of Assembly 22^d May 1730

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

Which Petition was read here and granted
The Rules appointed last year to be kept in the Lower House of
Assembly are agreed to be kept as such this Session.
M^r Dulany from the Committee of Laws brings in an Answer to
the Governours Speech & read the same in his Place.
The Question was put whether the said Answer to the Governours
Speech should be Ingrossed without Alteration or not & Resolved in
the Affirmative.
M^r Dulany is Ordered to get the same Ingrossed.
The Petition of William Chandler of Charles County being read
is granted.
The House Adjourns untill Two of the Clock in the Afternoon.

Friday at Two of the Clock in the Afternoon.

L. H. J.

The House met according to Adjournment. The Members were
Called and all Present as in the Morning.
M^r Dulany brings in the Address to the Governeur Ingrossed.
M^r Dulany and M^r Key are Ordered to go and acquaint the Gov-
ernour this House hath Prepared an Address to him & desireth
to know when & where he will receive the Same.
They return and acquaint M^r Speaker they delivered their Mes-
sage and that the Governeur is ready to receive the same Imme-
diately at his House.
Coll^o Greenfeild & Eleven more are Ordered to go and Present
the following Address to Governeur Viz.

To the Honourable Benedict Leonard Calvert Esq^r Govern^r of
Maryland. The Humble Address of the Lower House of

Assembly

May it Please your Honour.
We his Majesty's most Dutiful & Loyal Subjects the Representa-
tives of the freemen of Maryland in Assembly Convened, return

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