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The Lower House.
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Mr Stoddert
Lee
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Mr Hyland
Baker
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Mr Tillotson
Selby
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L. H. J.
Liber No. 47
June 7
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Wilson
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Franklin
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Crabb
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N. Goldsborough
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Matthews
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Prather
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For the Negative.
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p. 173
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Mr Bond
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Mr King
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Mr Gordon
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Mills
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R. J. Henry
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Dulany
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Key
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Waggaman
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Davis
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Barnes
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Sulivane
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Robins
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N. Smith
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Hooper
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Scarborough
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J. J. Mackall
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Lecompte
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J. Henry
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B. Mackall
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Colvill
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Chaplain
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Reynolds
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Sprigg
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The Bill entituled, An Act for raising an annual Revenue for the
better Support of the Station and Dignity of his Lordship's Gover-
nor for the Time being, and for the Safety and better Defence of
this Province, was read the second Time by an especial Order and
passed, and was sent to the Upper House by Mr. Wootton and
Capt. Lee.
Col. Hooper, from the Committee of Laws, delivers to Mr. Speaker
the following Address; viz.
To his Excellency Samuel Ogle, Esq; Governor of Maryland;
The humble Address of the House of Delegates.
May it please your Excellency,
As many Evils and Inconveniencies will unavoidably be intro-
duced into all Governments, which it is not possible for those at the
Helm to observe or remedy, without a proper Representation from
such who by their Station are more within View of such Evils; We
his Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Delegates of the
Freemen of Maryland, beg Leave to acquaint your Excellency, That
we see Popery too assiduously nurtured and propagated within this
Province, as well by the Professors thereof, as their Teachers, per-
verting and withdrawing many of his Majesty's Protestant Sub-
jects, both from our holy Religion, and their Faith and Allegiance to
his Royal Person, Crown, and Family.
That the Number of Jesuits and Popish Priests now within this
Province, and yearly coming in, together with the established Settle-
ments they have here, and several Youth sent from here to St.
Omer's, and other foreign Popish Seminaries out of his Majesty's
Obedience, to be trained up in Ways destructive to the Establish-
ment of Church and State in his Majesty's Dominions; some of
whom return here as Popish Priests, or Jesuits, together with others
of like Kind, who live in Societies, where they have public Mass-
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