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By the Upper House of Assembly, December 20, 1754.
Gentlemen,
This House hath appointed Richard Lee, Esq; to join the Mem-
bers named by your House in a Committee, to inspect the Accounts
and Proceedings of the Commissioners of the Paper Currency Office.
Signed per Order, J. Ross, Cl. Up. Ho.
In Pursuance of the Order of the Day, the Petition of John Tillot-
son, and Thomas Harris, of Queen Anne's County, was read.
Ordered, That in Regard the Petitioner John Tillotson appeared,
and disavowed his Privity of the said Petition being preferred to this
House, and the other Petitioner Thomas Harris having not appeared
to prove the Facts therein contained, the said Petition is rejected.
The House adjourns till 2 of the Clock Afternoon.
Post-Meridiem.
The House met according to Adjournment, &c.
A Petition of James Richard, of Baltimore County, Gentleman,
preferred to this House, relating to a Complaint laid before the Com-
mittee of Grievances, by the aforesaid Petitioner, against a certain
William Young, Receiver of his Lordship's Quit-Rents for Baltimore
County; which, by the said Committee, was, in the Year 1753,
reported to the House; was read and ordered to lie on the Table.
Mr. Hammond, from the Committee of Laws, delivers to Mr.
Speaker a Bill, entituled, An Act for taking and detaining able-
bodied Men for his Majesty's Service; which was read the first Time
and ordered to lie on the Table.
The House adjourns till the Morrow Morning at 9 of the Clock.
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Liber No. 48
December 20
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Saturday, December 21, 1754.
The House met according to Adjournment, &c. all appeared as
Yesterday, except Mr. Hicks, and Col. Fitzhugh.
His Excellency communicated to Mr. Speaker the following
Message :
Gentlemen of the Lower House of Assembly,
I take this Opportunity of acquainting you, that the Sum of Five
Hundred Pounds, which was granted by the Representatives of this
Province in May last, for a Present to the Six Indian Nations, was
accordingly presented by the Gentlemen who were commissioned for
that Purpose, to as many of those People as were present at the Inter-
view held with them at Albany, by Commissioners from the several
British Colonies on the Continent; and I had the Satisfaction to
learn, that the Indians, who accepted the Present, expressed their
Gratitude in a particular Manner, for the Generosity and Benevo-
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