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such Directions as to your Lordship in your Wisdom shall seem
Convenient, to put a Stop to such Unwarrantable proceedings.
Which Address was Approved and Ordered to be Ingrossed.
The House Adjourns untill two of the Clock in the Afternoon.

Saturday Post Merediem
The house met according to Adjournment, &c.
M^r Dulany brings in the Address to his Lordship Ingrossed.
Coll^o Gale and M^r Crabb Sent to Acquaint his Lordship this House
hath Prepared an Address to him and Desires to know when and
where he will receive it.
They return and Acquaint M^r Speaker, his Lordship is ready to
receive it Immediately.
Ordered that M^r Dulany and Twelve more Attend his Lordship
with the Address.
Coll^o Gale Delivered to M^r Speaker the following Report [This
report is printed at page 13.]

L. H. J.
Lib. No. 45

On reading the said Report, it was referred for Consideration on
Monday.
A Bill Entituled an Act for Erecting a Town on the North side
of Sassafras River in Cecil County for laying into Lotts thirty Acres
of Land on a Point known by the Name of Pennington's Point or
the Prizing Point. Read the first and second time by Especial Order
and passed. And sent to the Upper House by Coll^o Ward & M^r
Wood.

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M^r Speaker Communicates to the House his Lordships Answer
to the Address.

Gentlemen of the Lower House of Assembly.
I Desire you will be Assured, that I never will Countenance any
Illegal Proceedings; the Liberties of the People being no ways less
dear to me than the Preservation of my just Prerogative: And I
will give such Directions in the Present Case, as will I hope, Answer
the End desired.
The House Adjourns untill Monday Morning Eight of the Clock.

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Monday Morning March 26^th 1733.
The House met according to Adjournment &c.
A Bill Entituled an Act for Erecting a Town at and About the
Landing called the Elk Ridge Landing near the head of Potapsco
River in Ann Arundell County. Read the first and second Time by
Especial Order and passed; And sent to the Upper House, with the
following Message. [This message is printed at page 15.]

March 26