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U.H.J.
Liber No. 35
Dec. 14
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several and respective Sums of Money by the said Act levied for his
Use for printing, and delivering the Laws, and Votes, as aforesaid,
Be it therefore enacted by the Authority aforesaid that the several
and respective Sheriffs within this Province be and are hereby
obliged, and required to pay to the said Jonas Green or his Order
all and every Sum or Sums of Money heretofore levied by the said
Jonas Green by the said Act, any Neglect or Want of such Certificate
as aforesaid or any Clause, Matter, or Requisite in the said Act
mentioned to the Contrary notwithstanding Sent to the Lower House
by Col. Lloyd
Adjourned 'till three of the Clock in the Afternoon
Eodem Die post Meridiem
This House met again according to Adjournment
Present as in the Morning
A Message from the Lower House by Mess.rs Tilghman and
Carroll
By the Lower House of Assembly 14: Dec.r 1757.
May it please your Honours
We send herewith Triplicates of the Petition to his most excellent
Majesty, Representation to the Lords of Trade and Plantations, and
Address to the Lord Proprietary, and One to his Excellency the
Governor, agreed to by the Conferrees of both Houses to be signed
by the honourable President of your House, and presume you will
return them to be signed by our Speaker and we have appointed
M.r Matthew Tilghman, Col: Scarborough, M.r Charles Carroll, and
Captain Arthur Lee to join such of the Members as you shall be
pleased to appoint to acquaint the Governor that the two Houses
have an Address to present to him, together with the Petition, Repre-
sentation, and Address before mentioned
Signed p. Order M. Macnemara Cl : Lo : Ho :
To his Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esq : Governor, and Commander
in Chief, in and over the Province of Maryland
The humble Address of the Upper, and Lower Houses of Assembly
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p. 225
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May it please your Excellency
Having thought it our Duty to preferr an humble Petition to his
most sacred Majesty in Order to obtain a Suspension of the late
Act of Parliament prohibiting the Exportation of Grain and Pro-
visions from his Majesty's Colonies in America, and also to represent
to the Lords Commissioners for Trade, and Plantations, the great
Disadvantages the People of this Province must labour under from
the Restrictions laid upon their Trade by the said Act, we have
addressed the Lord Proprietary to request him to present the said
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