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sembly for Queen Anns County in the Room of M^r Solomon Clayton,
Deceased, appeared in the House.
M^r Pemberton and M^r Wilkinson are sent to the Upper House to
see him Qualified. They return and acquaint M^r Speaker they saw
him Qualified in the usual manner.
The Gentleman took his Place in the House.
Ordered, that M^r Speaker issue his Warrant to the Secretary of
the Province to make out a new Writ of Election, directed to the
Sheriff of Baltimore County, to elect a New Member to serve in this
present General Assembly in Place of M^r John Moale, deceased.
M^r Speaker communicated the following Message from his Ex-
cellency the Governor, viz.

L. H. J.
Lib. No. 46

Gentlemen of the Lower House of Assembly
Upon perusing the printed Votes and Proceedings of your House,
I find A Report from the Gentlemen appointed by you to take Copies
of some Records to be transmitted to Great Britain with your Ad-
dresses to his Majesty, and the Lord Proprietary, wherein the said
Gentlemen complain of being refused the Copies they applied for,
by which means they were prevented from complying with your
Orders and Instructions, whereby the said Addresses remain unpre-
sented
And as the said Gentlemen, in Support of this Complaint refer
to their Remonstrance to me, The two Orders of Council of the I^st
of August and I I^th of October last, together with the several Letters
that passed upon the Occasion, I must desire of you, to enter the said
Remonstrance, Orders of Council and Letters, on the Journals of
Your House, that not only you yourselves may see more clearly and
distinctly all that passed, than can be done by a cursory Reading of
the said Papers, but that future Assemblies may be fully acquainted
with the conduct of the Government upon this Occasion, which they
can never be, unless the said Papers should be entred on your
Journals.
I cannot help adding, that I hope my Conduct during the course of
my Administration, will always be such, that I shall only desire to
have my Actions placed in a fair and open Light, without any dis-
guise or Misrepresentation in favour or disfavour of them
Sam: Ogle

On reading the Governors Message, the Question was put,
whether Edmund Jenings, Esq^r; his Letter to M^r Ghiselin Chief
Clerk of the Provincial Court, dated December 17, 1739 and Levin
Gale Esq^r his Letter to M^r Griffith Beddoe Chief Clerk of the Land
Office, dated December 21, 1739 be Entred on the Journal as part of
the Proceedings, or not.
Resolved in the Affirmative

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