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Present as Yesterday except Col : Hammond
Read the first Time the Bill prepared in this House, entituled, An
Act for quartering and billetting his Majesty's Forces within this
Province, and ordered to lie on the Table
Adjourned 'till three of the Clock in the Afternoon
Eodem Die post Meridiem
This House met again according to Adjournm.t
Present as in the Morning
Read the second Time the Bill, entituled, An Act for making valid
the Proceedings of the Session of Assembly lately held at Baltimore
Town, and will not pass, sent to the Lower House by Benedict
Calvert Esq.
Read the second Time the Bill, entituled, An Act for billetting
and quartering his Majesty's Forces within this Province passed and
sent to the Lower House by Col. Lloyd
The following Message from the Lower House by Mess.rs Tilgh-
man and Carrol
By the Lower House of Assembly Dec. 8. 1757.
May it please your Honors
It having been represented to this House that an Act of Parliament
passed in the 30.th Year of his present Majesty prohibiting for a
limited Time the Exportation of Grain from these Colonies to any
neutral Port has already, and must hereafter be greatly prejudicial
to the good People of this Province by means of the severe Restric-
tions thereby laid on the Trade, and Commerce thereof, we propose
to send a Petition to his most gracious Majesty, a Representation to
the Lords Commissioners of Trade and Plantations as may be
thought most proper in Order to procure those Restrictions to be
taken off and presuming your Honours may be desirous to join us
therein have named Col : Tilghman, M. Matthew Tilghman, M.
Lloyd, M.r Edward Dorsey, M.r Carroll, and M.r Dulany to conferr
with such Members of your House as your Honours may think fit to
appoint on the Draft thereof
Signed p. Order M Macnemara Cl Lo Ho.
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