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That Mr. Turnor Wootton, Col. Edward Sprigg, Capt. John
Addison, and Mr. William Murdock, Members of Prince George's
County, are duly returned :
That Mr Henry Wright Crabb, Mr. Thomas Owen, Mr. Joseph
Chaplain, and Mr. Daniel Dulany, junior, Members of Frederick
County, are duly returned :
That Mr. Robert Gordon, and Mr. Walter Dulany, Members of
the City of Annapolis, are duly returned.
And we also find annexed to the Writ for Dorchester County,
an Instrument of Writing between the Sheriff of the said County,
of the one Part, and Henry Hooper, and several of the Freeholders
and Electors of the aforesaid County, of the other Part, under the
Hands and Seals of the said Sheriff and Electors, but not Indented ;
also an Instrument of Writing between the said Sheriff, of the one
Part, and Philemon Lecompte, and several of the Freeholders and
Electors of the said County, of the other Part, under the Hands and
Seals of the said Sheriff and Electors, but not Indented; also an In-
strument of Writing between the said Sheriff, of the one Part, and
Daniel Sulivane, and several of the Freeholders and Electors of the
said County, of the other Part, under the Hands and Seals of the
said Sheriff and Electors, but not Indented; also an Instrument of
Writing between the said Sheriff, of the one Part, and Henry Trav-
ers, and several of the Freeholders and Electors of the said County,
under the Hands and Seals of the said Electors, and subscribed by
the said Sheriff, but not sealed by him, and not Indented.
To the Writ for Calvert County, we find annexed four several
Instruments of Writing, between the Sheriff of the said County, of
the one Part, and James John Mackall, James Heighe, Benjamin
Mackall, junior, of Patuxent, and Benson Bond, and several of the
Freeholders and Electors of the same County, of the other Part,
under the Hands and Seals of the said Sheriff and Electors; but not
Indented.
We find four several Indentures between the Sheriff of Kent
County, of the one Part, and Matthias Harris, Richard Lloyd, Simon

Wilmer, and Nicholas Smith, and several of the Freeholders and

Electors of the said County, of the other Part, under the Hands and
Seals of the said Sheriff and the said Electors; but do not find any
Writ from that County.

L. H. J.
Liber No. 46
June 2

All which is submitted to the Consideration of your Honourable
House; and whether the sending for the Sheriffs abovementioned,
and passing such Censure on them as to the Wisdom of the House
shall seem meet, would not be a means to prevent such Remissness
for the future.
Signed per Order, Thomas Harwood, junior, Cl. Com.
On reading thereof, the House concurs therewith.

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