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Dec. 12
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and for the better regulating Ordinaries, and Ordinary Keepers,

and for other Purposes therein mentioned thus subscribed

12: Dec.^r 1757. Read and assented to by the Lower House of
Assembly
Signed p. Order M Macnemara Cl. Lo. Ho :

Read and assented to by this House, and ordered to be so sub-
scribed

A Bill from the Lower House by Mess.^rs Wilson and Woodward
intitled, An Act for the Speedy and effectual Publication of the
Laws of this Province, and for the Encouragement of Jonas Green
of the City of Annapolis Printer, thus endorsed

By the Lower House of Assembly 10 : Dec. 1757.

Read the first and second Time by an especial Order, and will
pass:
Signed p. Order M Macnemara

Read the first Time in this House and ordered to lie on the Table.
Adjourned 'till to Morrow Morning 10. of the Clock

Dec. 13

Tuesday Morning 13.^th Dec. 1757.
This House met again according to Adjournm.'

Present as Yesterday and Col : Hammond.

Col : Lloyd from the Conference appointed to draw up a Petition
to his Majesty and a Representation to the Lords of Trade brings
in the following Report.
At a Conference of the Members of both Houses of Assembly
the 9:^th Day of December 1757

Present

The honourable Col : Edward Lloyd, and
Col: Benjamin Tasker of the upper House
and

Edward Tilghman Walter Dulany
Robert Lloyd Charles Carroll, and
Matthew Tilghman Edward Dorsey Esq.^rs of the Lower House.

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Who then chose Col: Edward Lloyd Chairman, and Thomas
Johnson jun : Clerk :

Agreed that a Petition to the King be prepared, and also a Repre-
sentation to the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations
on the Subject Matter of this Conference