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May 10
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Friday, May lo, 1754.
The House met according to Adjournment, &c. all appeared as
Yesterday, &c.
The House adjourns till 2 of the Clock Afternoon.
Post-Meridiem.
The House met according to Adjournment, &c.
Mr. Bond, Major Barnes, Mr. Mills, and Mr. Key, appeared in
the House.
Col. Hooper, from the Committee of Laws, delivers' to Mr.
Speaker an Address to his Excellency, which was read, approved,
and ordered to be ingrossed.
On motion, Ordered, That a Warrant be made out, directed to the
Serjeant at Arms, to take into his Custody Mr. William Rasin,
Sheriff of Kent County, and bring him to the Bar of this House, to
shew Cause why he doth not return the Writ of Election, directed
to him as Sheriff to elect a Delegate for said County, according to the
Tenor thereof, and also the Indentures signed between him and the
Electors of Kent County aforesaid, at the last Election.
Col. Hooper, from the Committee of Laws, delivers to Mr.
Speaker the following ingrossed Address, viz.
May it please your Excellency,
We, his Majesty's most loyal and dutiful Subjects, the Delegates
of the Freemen of Maryland, in Assembly convened, do, with sin-
cere Hearts, return your Excellency our unfeigned Thanks for your
kind and affectionate Speech, at the Opening of this Session.
We shall give that serious Attention, to the Matters recommended
to us by your Excellency, relative to the Incroachments of the French
on his Majesty's Territories, and engaging the Friendship of the
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