528 Assembly Proceedings, April 23-June 5, 1740.

	L. H. J		For the Negative
	Lib. No. 46
	p. 21	Mr Harris	Mr Henry	Mr Gordon
		Hynson	Gale	George
		Middleton	Dulany

		The House Adjourns to Three of the Clock in the Afternoon Post Meridiem The House met according to Adjournment On Motion of A Member that A Bill be brought in to Regulate Officers Fees, Leave is given, and Ordered, that the Committee of Laws prepare and bring in the same. The Bill, entituled An Act for issuing and paying out of the Office of the Commissioners or Trustees for emitting Bills of Credit established by Act of Assembly of the Province of Maryland the sum of £2636.. 16.. 3 Current Money in Bills of Credit of this Province, to be applied for Encouragement of such Persons as shall voluntarily Inlist themselves in his Majestys Service, Sent to the Upper House, by Colo King and Eleven more, with the following Message. ( See page 430.)
	p. 22	Mr Calder delivers Mr Speaker the following Report. In Pursuance of an Order of your Honourable House, dated the 9th of June 1739, We the Subscribers Members thereof, appointed by the said Order to take Copies of Records and Transmit the same to Great Britain with the Address prepared at your last Meeting, to the Kings most Excellent Majesty, and to the Right Honourable the Lord Baltimore Lord Proprietary, both dated June the 9th 1739, Do hereby humbly Represent, that on the 21st day of July 1739, We transmitted the said Addresses, and have employed according to your Order , a Gentleman of undoubted Reputation, knowledge and Integrity, to serve this Province as an Agent in Great Britain, and who by his Letters acknowledges the Receipt of the said Addresses, but not being supplied with Authentick Copies of necessary Records from the Offices of this Province he could not Present the same, as a State of the Case was not to be made without such Records well and legally Authenticated We further humbly represent, That in Obedience to your order we applied to the several Offices of this Province who have the keep- ing of the Records thereof, and to their under Clerks, as may appear by one Letter signed C. Carroll and Vachel Denton dated Annapolis, July the 11th 1739, directed to Edmund Jenings, Esqr Secretary of Maryland, as also by a Letter dated at Annapolis June the 29th 1739, Signed C. Carroll and Vachel Denton, and directed to Griffith