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returns made to the Chancellors Office, nor knows of any made
according to the Dedimus potestatem, except one from Queen Anns
County returned to his Excy the Governour, which your Committee
conceives to be an Omission of their duty and which is most humbly

submitted to the Consideration of the House

Signed p Order of the Committee Tho^s Lynn Cl.

The House concurs with the aforesaid Report.
Col Hanson from the Committee of Elections &c^a delivers the
following Report

By the Committee of Elections and Priviledges 11^th May 1738

Your Committee having Examined the Writs and inspected the
several Indentures of the members returned to serve this Assembly
do find, That M^r Jn^o Read, M^r James Waughop, M^r James Swan and
M^r Thomas Aisquith, Members returned for S^t Marys County are
duly elected. That M^r John Courts, M^r William Middleton, M^r
Bayne Smallwood and Col Robert Hanson Members returned for
Charles County are duly elected.
That Col John Makal, M^r Benjamin Makal, M^r Walter Smith
and M^r James Weems members returned for Calvert County are
duly elected. That M^r John Stoddert, Major Edward Sprigg, M^r
John Magruder and M^r Turner Wootton, members returned for
Prince George's County are duly elected.
That Daniel Dulany Esq^r M^r Vachel Denton, M^r Philip Ham-
mond and M^r Samuel Smith members returned for Ann Arundell
County are duly elected. That Daniel Dulany Esq^r and Doctor
Charles Carroll Members returned for the City of Annapolis are
duly elected.
That Captain Thomas Sheredine, M^r Roger Matthews, M^r John
Moale and M^r Richard Caswell members returned for Baltimore
County are duly elected. That Col Levin Gale Col Robert King
M^r William Stoughton and M^r Robert Jenckins Henry members
returned for Somerset County are duly elected. That Col Henry
Hooper, Captain Henry Trippe, Captⁿ Bartholomew Ennalls and M^r
John Brannock, members returned for Dorchester County are duly
elected. That M^r Nicholas Goldsborough, M^r William Thomas
W Edward Lloyd and M^r Robert Lloyd, Members returned for
Talbot County are duly elected. That M^r Grundy Pemberton, M^r
Solomon Clayton, M^r Tho^s Wilkinson and M^r Edward Wright,
Members returned for Queen Anns County are duly elected.
That M^r George Willson, M^r Philip Kennard, M^r Thomas Smith
and M^r Charles Hynson, Members returned for Kent County are
duly elected. That M^r Joshua George, Col Thomas Colvil, M^r Wil-
liam Rumsey and M^r Alphonso Cosden, Members returned for Cecil

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