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levied upon the Taxable Inhabitants of this Province, be taken into
Consideration on Tuesday next.
M^r Thomas Hammond, and M^r Thomas, have leave of the House
to go Home.
M^r Smith, from the Committee of Elections and Privileges, brings
in the following Report, viz.
By the Committee of Elections and Privileges, August 23. 1745
Your Committee, having inspected the Writs directed to the several
Sherifs, and to the Mayor, Recorder, and Aldermen of the City of
Annapolis, with the Indentures thereunto annexed, do find That
M^r Zachariah Bond, M^r Samuel Abell, and M^r Abraham Barns, are
duly returned for St. Mary's County, and that M^r James Mills is also
returned a member for said County; but that your Committee being
informed that the Polls taken for the said Mills, and M^r James Swan
were equal, whereupon the Sherif of said County gave his Voice in
favour of said Mills, and declared his Election accordingly. The
Legality of which is submitted to the House.
That M^r Richard Gresham, M^r George Wilson, M^r John Gresham,
and M^r Matthias Harris, Members returned for Kent County, are
duly returned.
That Maj. Henry Hall, D^r Charles Carroll, M^r Philip Hammond,
and M^r Thomas Worthington. members returned for Anne Arundel
County, are duly returned.

That M^r Walter Smith, M^r Joseph Hall, M^r John Brome, and
M^r James John Mackall, Members returned for Calvert County, are
duly returned.
That M^r Bayne Smallwood, M^r Richard Harrison, M^r William
Wilkinson, and M^r John Courts, Members returned for Charles
County, are duly returned.
That William Stoughton Esq^re Capt. David Willson, M^r John
Dennis, and Col. Robert King, Members returned for Somerset
County, are duly returned
That M^r John Goldsborough, M^r Robert Lloyd, M^r William
Thomas, and M^r Nicholas Goldsborough, Members returned for
Talbot County, are duly returned.
That Col. Henry Hooper, Capt. Bartholomew Ennalls, and M^r
Philemon Lecompte, are duly returned for Dorchester County, and
that M^r Daniel Sulivane is also returned a member for said County ;
But your Committee being informed, that the said Sulivane acted
as under Sherif in the said County long before and after notice given
of the Time of the Election for said County; We therefore submit
it to your consideration, whether the said M^r Sulivane his acting as
under Sherif as aforesaid, disqualified him from being elected a
member of your House.
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Liber No. 46