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Read the second Time the Bill Entituled an Act for the Speedy
Recovery of Small Debts before one Justice of the peace and will
pass with the following Amendments instead of, Three Pounds
Current Money, in the Seventh, Twenty eighth & thirty Second
Lines of the Bill, put fifty Shillings Current Money, sent by Col
Plater
Read the petition of the Rector Vestrymen and Churchwardens
of S.t Anns Parish in Ann Arundel County Praying a Sum of
Money may be Raised on the public for building a Commodious
Place for fixing a Bell and Clock in the City of Annapolis Referred
to the Consideration of the Lower house of Assembly & sent by
Benedict Calvert Esq.r
Read the second Time the Bill Entituled a Supplementary Act to
the Act Entituled an Act to enable the Justices of Charles County
to levy a Sum of Tobacco on the Taxable Inhabitants of Port
Tobacco Parish in the said County passed and sent by Richard
Lee Esq.r
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
The following Message from the Lower house is brought by
Mess." Waggaman and Handy
By the Lower house of Assembly 1 November 1753.
May It please Your Honours.
By a Report from the Committee of Accounts made last Session
a Copy of which we sent to Your honours That Col Geo Gale Ad-
ministrator of Levin Gale has overpaid a Debt due to the Province
from the af.d Levin Gale the Sum of £8.. 7,4 1/2 Sterling for the
repayment of which We then proposed to your honours that the
Commissioners of the Paper Currency Office should draw on the
Trustees in London for that Sum, and Your honours Agreed
thereto Since which the Commissioners af .d on Application made to
them by the af.d George Gale/in pursuance of an Order of both
houses/Object that they are not Sufficiently empowered by the Paper
Currcy Act to make such draught We therefore/propose that the
said Commissioners be directed to discharge the Debt af .d in Current
Money at 55 p Cent difference of Exchange between the Sterling
and Currency, with which if your honours Agree an Ordinance may
be made out accordingly
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl Lo H
Adjourned till to Morrow Morning ten of the Clock
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