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said Land Referred to the Consideration of the Lower house and sent
by Edmund Jenings Esq^r
His Excellency is pleased to Communicate his answer to the
address of this house in the following words

Gentlemen of the Upper house of Assembly
I Return you my hearty Thanks for your kind Address and cannot
but be very much Pleased with the Sense you Express of the Sin-
cerity of my Inclinations for the Prosperity of the Province which
I shall at all times endeavour to promote to the utmost of my Power
Samuel Ogle

Read the second time the Bill Entituled an Act repealing an Act
Entituled an act for the speedy and Effectual Publication of the
Laws of this Province and for the Encouragement of W^m Parkes
of the City of Annapolis Printer as also one other act entituled an
Act reviving an Act of Assembly entituled an act for the speedy and
effectual Publication of the Laws of this Province and for the En-
couragement of William Parks of the City of Annapolis Printer as
also one other Act entituled a supplementary act to the act entituled
an Act for the speedy and more effectual publication of the Laws of
this Province and for the encouragement of William Parks of the
City of Annapolis Printer passed and sent by George Plater Esq^r

U. H. J.
No. 33

Adjourned till three of the Clock in the afternoon

Eodem Die Post Meridiem
This house met again according to Adjournment

Present as in the morning
Messrs. Goldsborough and Lloyd from the Lower house attend
with M^r John Brannock a member elected for Dorchester County
in order to see him qualified who takes the Oaths to the Government
appointed to be taken by act of Assembly and subscribes the Abjura-
tion and Test and then withdrew
Adjourned till Monday morning nine of the Clock

p. 518

Monday Morning 8^th May 1738
This house met again according to Adjournment

May 8

Present

The

Col^o Richard Tilghman

George Plater Esq^r

Col^o Math. Tilghman Ward

Edmund Jenings Esq^r

honble

Benjamin Tasker Esq^r

Col^o Charles Hammond

Philip Lee Esq^r