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They return and acquaint M^r Speaker they saw him qualified
by taking the several Oaths to the Government required by Law by
Repeating the Test and by Signing: the Oath of Adjuration and Test.
The Gentleman took his Place in the House
Col^o Gale from the Upper House delivers M^r Speaker the Bill
entituled An Act reviving An Act of Assembly of this Province
entituled An Act for the Speedy Recovery of small debts out of
Court before a Single Justice of the Peace Indorsed (See page 181)
James Holliday Esq^r from the Upper House delivers M^r Speaker
the Bill entituled An Act for Limitation of Officers Fees Indorsed
(See page 181)
The House Adjourns until 2 of the Clock in the Afternoon

Post Meridiem

The House met according to Adjournment &c^a
M^r Smith from the Committee appointed to Inspect the Arms and
Ammunition, and Accounts thereto relating delivers M^r Speaker the
following Report
By the Committee appointed to Inspect the Arms Ammunition
and Accounts relating thereto
June 16, 1741
Your Committee having viewed and Inspected the Quality and
Quantity of the Arms and Ammunition of this Province lodged in
the City of Annapolis do find the same as follows viz.
In the Powder House forty half Barrells of Gun Powder
In the Room over the Conference Chamber everything remain
as last Year (except one Drum delivered by the Governors Order
to James Wilson for the Use of the Assembly) and that the Arms
and Ammunition in the Council Chamber remain fix'd as they were
last Year
We also find that some of the Arms aforesaid are but in indifferent
Order
We further find by the Governor and Councils Order one quarter
Barrell of Gun Powder and fifty Pounds of Bulletts delivered to the
Honourable Levin Gale Esq^r since last Session for the Use of
Captain William Fosset of Somerset County
We likewise find sundry Goods (not Yet come to hand) Ship'd
on Board the Baltimore amounting to £520.. 19.4 as per Invoices
and Shop notes produced to Your Committee a Copy of which said
Invoices and Shop notes follows in these Words, viz.

London the 13 of March 1740/1
Invoice of Goods Ship'd on Board the Baltimore Jerningham
Bigg, master for Maryland on the Proper Account and Risque of
the Province of Maryland, and goes Consigned to M^r Charles Ham-
mond Treasurer of the Western Shore of said Province viz^t

L. H. J.