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a Law, which by making this Meeting a Session may determine those
Laws so useful and necessary to the Province; And therefore We
hope you will take the Revival of those Laws under Your Con-
sideration and give them such Dispatch, as a Session may be forth-
with made to Our Mutual Satisfaction and Benefit
As We conceive his Excellencys Justice and Good Conduct have
been as well manifested lately as formerly, and that the Encourage-
ment to Learning is as Necessary now as heretofore, We cannot omit

U. H. J.

No. 734

puting you in Mind of sending us a Bill to continue the Law that
raises 1 1/2 p hh^d on Tobacco for the use of His Excellency and the
like Sum for the supporting Publick Schools in Each County which
will otherwise expire in September next
Signed p Order John Ross Cl Up H.

Adjourned till to Morrow Morning nine of the Clock

p. 63

Saturday Morning 9^th June 1739
This house met again according to Adjournment
Present as yesterday

The Journal of the Committee of Accounts is brought from the
Lower House by Mess^rs King and Sheredine thus subscribed

8 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.

the Several Engrossed Bills that have passed the Lower House this
Session, and brought up to this House are ordered to be thus sub-
scribed
Read and assented to by the Upper House of Assembly
Signed p Order John Ross Cl Up H

the several Paper Bills so Endorsed are sent to the Lower House;
Part by Col Gale and Part by James Hollyday Esq^r
An Engrossed Bill from the Lower House by Mess^rs Weemes &
Hall Entituled an Act empowering the. three Commissioners therein
named together with the Justices of Calvert County to repair the
Court house of that County by an Assesment on the Inhabitants
thereof thus subscribed

9 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.

June 9