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On July I, the House refused, 16 to 18, to give further remuneration for
printing to Jonas Green. There appears to have been no political significance
in the vote. On July 2, the House voted to have the tax levies discharged at
12 shillings and six pence (and not 10 shillings) for every 100 pounds of
tobacco. The negative votes were the anti-Proprietary die-hards, the Anne
Arundel men (except Hall), Smith, Nicholas Goldsborough, Ennalls, Hyland,
Wootton, and Hammond of Queen Anne's. On the 3rd, the conferees were
instructed to continue conference, by a vote of 20 to 15, the Proprietary party
winning again. On July 4, by a vote of 20 to 14, some of the anti-
Proprietarians being absent, the House fixed the fee for copying certain
records at 9 pounds of tobacco for 105 words.

Two divisions were taken on July 6. By a vote of 22 to 11, it was decided
that one fifth and not one fourth be deducted from attorney's fees and, by a
vote of 21 to 11, the Proprietary party gained a second victory in an agree-
ment that the Upper House contention prevail as to certain fees. The tobacco
bill passed for engrossing, on July 7, by a vote of 26 to11. The minority
consisted of Wilson, Carroll, Worthington, Smith, Smallwood, Ennalls, Woot-
ton, Stoddert, Hopper, Henry of Worcester, and Scarborough.

Another Proprietary victory came on the 8th; when, by a vote of 22 to 16,
the House reversed itself and voted that the proceeds of the arms duty be paid
the Treasurers. By a vote of 21 to 17, the Proprietary party secured an omis-
sion from that bill of any reference to the law of 1704. Eighteen men, mostly
of the Proprietary party, on that day voted to accept the Upper House's
amendment to the bill concerning Baltimore Town, while 15 voted against it.
The St. Mary's delegation divided here, an unusual thing.

On July 9, that delegation divided again, when, in discussing the bill for
the division of Prince George's County, the decision was made, by 20 votes
to 16, to have the bill go into effect in 1748, not 1749. Even the Greshams
divided in this vote, which seems to have had no political significance.

Three divisions were taken on July 10. It was voted, 20 to 17, to leave out
of the Assize Bill the words " and not elsewhere "; by 20 to 17, to have the
bill continue to 1749 as proposed by the Upper House; and to pass that bill,
by 20 to 16. The majority in each case consisted of the Proprietary party
from St. Mary's, Kent, Cecil (except Hyland), Somerset, Dorchester (even
including Ennalls), Worcester, and Annapolis, with Thomas of Talbot.

On the eleventh, the last day of the Session, three divisions occurred. The
bill to raise a duty of three half pence per hogshead of tobacco passed by a vote
of 26 to 12, only the Anne Arundel, Calvert, Charles, and Prince George's
opposition, together with Hyland and Paca, casting negative votes. A message