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by Law, by Repeating the Test and by Signing the Oath of Abjura-
tion and the Test
The Petition of Hannah Ratcliffe of Queen Anns County Execu-
trix of William Ratcliffe deceased was Read and Granted
The Petition of Thomas Spalding and Catherine his Wife was
Read and thereupon Col^o Hooper M^r Rumsey and Captain Gist are
appointed A Committee to enquire into the Allegations therein con-
tained and to make their Report to the House
M^r Wootton brings in a Bill entituled An Act impowering the
Justices of Prince Georges County to levy on the Taxable Inhabi-
tants of Queen Anne Parish in the said County the sum of 100£
Current Money of Maryland for the Uses therein mentioned Read
the first time and Ordered to lie on the Table
The House Adjourns to 2 of the Clock in the Afternoon

Post Meridiem
The House met according to Adjournment
On Motion to bring in a Bill to lay out and apply a Sum not ex-
ceeding Pounds Current Money for the Repairs necessary to be
made to the Council House the Stadt House and the Parade in
Annapolis Leave given and Ordered that the Committee of Laws
prepare and bring in the Bill Accordingly
The House Adjourns until to Morrow Morning at 9 of the Clock

L. H. J.

Friday Morning June 5. 1741

The House met according to Adjournment &c^a
M^r Calder one of the Members directed by the House to procure
Copies of Records and to transmit the same to Great Britain delivers
M^r Speaker the following Report

To the Honourable the House of Delegates of the Province of
Maryland.

We the Subscribers being by Order of Your Honourable House
directed to procure Copies of Records and to Transmit the same to
Great Britain to the Agent there appointed for the Service of the
Country do hereby humbly Represent that on the fifteenth day of
November last Past (as soon as the same Copies could be compleat
had) We transmitted the following several Copies and Papers to
Ferdinando John Paris Esq^r the Agent there, by Captain William
Anderson in the Ship Creighton being the first good and safe Op-
portunity that offered

June 5
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Turner Wootton James Calder Henry Hall
John Magruder C Carroll Edward Sprigg
Osborn Sprigg V Denton