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in Order that the further necessary Steps may be taken to bring this
Session to a Conclusion
Signed p Order W^m Ghiselin Cl Ass^t to CI Lo H.

Adjourned till two of the Clock in the Afternoon

Eodem Die post Meridiem
This House met again according to Adjournment

Present as in the Morning
Read the second time the Bill Entituled An Act concerning the
building a Dwelling house Out houses and other Conveniences for a
Governor; passed and sent by Philip Lee Esq^r
An Engrossed Bill from the Lower House by Mess^rs Wootton
and Hall Entituled An Act for the Relief of Levin Hall Thomas
Gough Ezekiel Orrick Samuel Deavor and Thomas Somes lan-
guishing Prisoners in Ann Arundel County Goal Sarah Butcher a
languishing Prisoner in Dorchester County Goal W'illiam Bigges
a languishing Prisoner in St. Marys County Goal James Ranton
Peter Hyatt languishing Prisoners in Prince Georges County Goal
and William Gibson a languishing Prisoner in Queen Anns County
Goal thus subscribed

7 June 1739

Read and Assented to by the Lower House of Assembly
Signed p Order W^m Ghiselin Cl Ass^t to Cl Lo H.

Adjourned till to Morrow Morning Nine of the Clock

U. H. J.
No. 734

Friday Morning 8 June 1739
Thos House met again according to Adjournment
Present as Yesterday with the Addition of Col Hammond
The following Message is sent to the Lower House by Benjamin
Tasker Esq^r

June 8

By the Upper House of Assembly 8^th June 1739
Gentlemen
In Our Message of the 3 I^st of May we endeavoured to satisfy you
of the Reasonableness of Our Refusal to pass the Bill for raising an
Annual Revenue for the better Support of his Lordships Govern-
ment and Governor within this Province by the same Arguments,
which perswaded Us to that Refusal; In answer to this, you by a
Message on the 4^th Instant very shortly tell us that " Those Argu-
ments served only to confirm you the more in the Justice of Your

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