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the Collecting and Payment of the Public and County Levies. Which
Bills were read the first Time, and Ordered to lie on the Table
M^r Speaker Communicates to the House the following Message
from the Governor viz.
Gentlemen of the Lower House of Assembly
I have received the inclosed Dispatches from the Northward which
I think proper to lay before your House T. Bladen
With the Dispatches mentioned in the said Message, which were
read, and ordered to lie on the Table
Col Tasker from the upper House delivers M^r Speaker the follow-
ing Message ( See page 288. )
The House Adjourns 'till 2 of the Clock

Post Meridiem

The House met According to Adjournment
The House taking into Consideration the Message from the Upper
House by Colonel Tasker The Question was put whether this House
will agree to the Conference proposed by the said Message. Resolved
in the Negative

For the Negative

M^r Wilson M^r Smallwood M^r Hyland
Harris Harrison John Hall
p. Hammond N. Goldsborough Buchanan
Carroll Lloyd Paca
Worthington Thomas Wootton
H. Hall I. Goldsborough Stoddert
Smith Hooper Hopper
Brome Ennalls Tilghman
Courts Pearce

For the affirmative

M^r [Barnes] M^r Dashiel M^r Henry
Bond Dennis Purnell
I. Gresham George Robins

R. Gresham Byard Scarborough
Stoughton Gordon
King T. Hammond

L. H. J.
Liber No. 46

And ordered, that the Committee of Laws prepare a Message in
Answer thereto M^r Harris from the Committee of Laws delivers
M^r Speaker A Bill entituled, An Act for the easier and better secur-
ing the Estates of Debtors absconding, and of Persons Bankrupt,
for the use of their Creditors, and Equal Distribution of the same .
which was read the first Time, and Ordered to lie on the Table

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