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A Message from the Lower house by D^r Carrol and Buchanan.
By the Lower house of Assembly 10 June 1747
May it Please Your honours Paper and Ink is wanting for the
Publick Use immediately and as there is a Ballance in the hands of
the Treasurer of the Western Shoar of this Province due to the
Publick and that the Publick Business may not be retained We pro-
pose that an order on the said Treasurer may be Drawn by the Clerk
of this house payable to Doctor Charles Carrol and Doctor George
Buchanan for the Sum of Ten Pounds Current Money to be laid out
in the Best manner for the purpose af^d with such if Your house Con-
cures an Order will be Drawn accordingly
Signed p Order M. Macnemara Cl. Lo. Ho.
The following Message is sent by Edmund Jenings Esq^re
By the Upper house of Assembly 10 June 1747
Gentlemen In Answer to Your Message by Doctor Carrol and
Doctor Buchanan for the Concurrence of this house to the applica-
tion of Ten Pounds Currency to Purchase Paper and Ink for the
Publick Use We acquaint you, that the Governor whose Concurrence
is Necessary for the application of Publick Money is not in Town
Yet as the application of the sum mentioned in Your Message is but
small and seems to be necessary to the Dispatch of the Publick Busi-
ness. We Concure with you for this Time in having the order you
mention Drawn & the Money Applied as you desire
Signed p Order John Ross Cl Up Ho.
Adjourned till to Morrow Morning ten of the Clock.

U. H. J
Liber No. 34

Thursday Morning 11 June 1747
This house met again according to Adjournment

Present as Yesterday
Read the Petition of John Hussey of Prince Georges County Pray-

June 11

ing leave to bring in a Bill to record a Deed of Bargain and Sale
from John Aubrey of Virginia to him the said John Hussey for a
Tract of Land Containing 30 Acres called Yates addition Rejected ;
it not appearing to this house that the Parties Interested in the said
Land have had Notice of this application
Adjourned till three of the Clock in the afternoon

Eodem Die post Meridiem
This house met again according to adjournment

Present as in the Morning
Adjourned till to Morrow Morning ten of the Clock
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