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of small Debts out of Court before a Single Justice of the Peace.
Read the second time and passed And sent to the upper House by
Coll^o King and M^r Osborn Sprigg.
The following Message (See page 216.)

L. H. J.
Lib. No. 45

Sent to the upper House by M^r Trippe and Cap^t Caswell.
M^r Wilson and Cap^t Gassaway Added to the Committee of Ag-
grievances and Courts of Justice.
A Bill brought in Entituled an Act to continue an Act of Assem-
bly of this Province Entituled an Act for the better Releif of poor
Debtors, was read the first time and Ordered to lye on the Table.
The House Adjourned untill two of the Clock in the Afternoon.

Post Meridiem. The House met according to Adjournment.
The Sherriff of Ann Arundell County delivered to the Clerk of this
House the Proclamation by which the last Assembly was disolved
which was read by the Clerk, who was ordered to take a Copy and
Enter the Same on the Journal. The Proclamation is contained in
these words Viz.

Maryland ss^t

By his Excellency Samuel Ogle Esq^r Governour and Commander in
Chief in and over the Province of Maryland.

A Proclamation

Whereas there is no Emergent Occasion for the meeting of the
Assembly at the Day it is adjourned to, I have therefore thought
fit with the Advice of his Lordships Council of State to Dissolve
this Present Assembly and I do hereby Dissolve the same, and
I do Strictly Charge and Command the Several Sherriffs of this
Province to make this my Proclamation publick in their Respec-
tive Countys in the usual manner to the end that all Persons Con-
cerned may have due notice thereof, as they will Answer the
Contrary at their Peril. Given at the City of Annapolis this
twentieth Day of October in the twenty fourth Year of his Lordships
Dominion Annoq Domini 1738
Sam^ll Ogle John Ross G. Con.

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M^r George brings in a Bill Entituled an Act for continuing an
Act of Assembly of this Province Entituled an Act Ascertaining the
Gage and Tare of Tobacco Hogsheads and to prevent Cropping
Cutting and defacing Tobacco taken on Board Shipps or Vessels
upon freight

And a Bill Entituled an Act for continuing an Act of Assembly
of this Province Entituled an Act for the Tryal of all matters of
Fact in the Several County's where they have arisen or shall arise

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