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herewith returned, that the Honourable members which Composed
the upper House at that time, were three more Exclusive of the five
Honourable Members Signing, and that we Humbly hope it will
always be understood, that your Committee did not require their
Attendance as Councillors, of State, but as Naval officers, the
length of this report we humbly hope will be excused, when the
Necessity is Considered, of putting the matter in as Clear a light
as your Committee were able to do, that from the Different Acts

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therein Recited you may be able to Judge the Intention of the Legis-
lators as well as there Express words, and which Clearly appears
to your Committee that the Act of 1704 granting to her Majesty,
her Heirs and Successors doth not Intentionally or Expressly, Ex-
tend to his Lordship the Lord Baltimore, his Heirs and Assigns :
but is most humbly Submitted to the Consideration of Your Hon-
ourable house.
Signed per Order of the Committee S. Bordley, Clerk

The Letter or message referred to, by the foregoing report is as
follows.

Gentlemen 15^th May 1739.
We have Severally received letters from your Clerk, dated this day,
desireing us to attend you at three of the Clock this afternoon,
and have laid the said Letters before the upper House of Assembly
who are of opinion, that it is not Consistent with the Dignity of their
House, to Suffer their Members to Attend the Lower house of
Assembly, much less any Committee of it but that there may not be
the least pretence of any Henderance given to the Public Business,
we think it proper to acquaint you, that we Collect twelve pence
Sterling per hogshead by virtue of an Act of Assembly Entituled,
an Act for Settlement of an Annual Revenue upon her Majesty's
Governor within this province for the time being, made in Septem-
ber 1704, three pence Sterling per Hogshead by virtue of an Act
for raising a duty of three pence per hogshead on all Tobacco Ex-
ported out of this province for the use therein mentioned, made in
July 1732: fifteen pence per Hogshead by virtue of an Act for
Emitting and Making Current ninety Thousand Pounds Current
money of Maryland in bills of Credit made in March 1732: three
pence per Hogshead by virtue of an Act of Assembly Entituled an
Act for raising three pence per Hogshead on Tobacco Exported
for purchasing Arms and Ammunition for the Defence of this
Province made in March 1734
Benj^a Tasker N: Officer Annapolis
Philip Lee N: O: Potowmack
George Plater Naval officer Patuxent
Levin Gale N: officer Pocomoke
James Hollyday Naval officer Oxford

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