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Pounds Seven Shillings and Four Pence Hal f -penny Sterling, for
the Repayment of which we then proposed to your Honours, that
the Commissioners of the Paper Office should draw on the Trustees
in London for that Sum, and your Honours agreed thereto, since
which the Commissioners aforesaid, on an Application made to them
by the aforesaid George Gale, (in Pursuance of an Order of both
Houses), object that they are not sufficiently empowered, by the
Paper Currency Act, to make such Draft. We therefore propose
that the said Commissioners be directed to discharge the Debt afore-
said in Current Money, at 55 per Cent, difference of Exchange
between the Sterling and Current Money, with which if your Hon-
ours agree, an Ordinance may be made out accordingly.
Signed per Order, M. Macnemara, Cl. Lo. Ho.
Was sent to the Upper House by Mr. Waggaman and Mr. Handy.
Mr. Hawkins brings in, and delivers to Mr. Speaker, a Bill inti-
tuled, An Act impowering the Justices of Prince George's County,
to levy on the taxable Inhabitants of Saint Paul's Parish, in the said
County, a Sum of Current Money for the Uses therein mentioned;
which was read the first Time and ordered to lie on the Table.
Mr. Smallwood, from the Committee appointed to tax the Fees
due to the Officers of the Lower House of Assembly on the contro-

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Liber No. 47
November 1

verted Election for the City of Annapolis, delivers to Mr. Speaker
the following Report, viz.
By the Committee appointed by the Honourable the Lower House
of Assembly, to tax the Cost accruing due on the controverted Elec-
tion for the City of Annapolis, between Messieurs Alexander Ham-
ilton, and George Steuart, November 1, 1753. Who proceeded to
make the following Allowances, viz.

To the Clerk of this Honourable House, for issuing
Summons's for Seventeen Persons at the Request
of Alexander Hamilton, at 3 s. per, is ——— £. z. 11. 0.
To ditto, for issuing Summons's for 13 Persons at
the Request of George Steuart, at 3 s. per, is 1. 19. 0.
To Mr. George Johnson, Serjeant at Arms, for serving
the Summons's on the 17 Persons, at 2 s. ——— 1. 14. 0.
To ditto, for serving Summons's on 13 Persons, at 2 s.
per is —— —— —— —— 1. 6. 0.

Which is humbly submitted to the Consideration of
your Honourable House. £. 7. 10. 0.

Signed per Order, William Wilkins, Clerk.
The House concurs with the Report.
Ordered, That Doctor Hamilton, and Doctor Steuart, do pay to
the Clerk of this House, and to the Serjeant, the several Fees as
taxed by the Committee appointed.
The House adjourns till the morrow Morning at 8 of the Clock.

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