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All which is humbly submitted to the Consideration of the Hon-
ourable House.
Signed per Order, Basil Dorsey, junr. Clerk said Committee.
Daniel Dulany, Esq; from the Upper House, delivers to Mr.
Speaker, the Petitions of Languishing Prisoners in the several
County Goals in this Province; Indorsed, "By the Upper House
of Assembly, Referred to the Consideration of the Lower House
of Assembly."
Which Petitions were here Read, and Granted.
Col. Tasker, from the Upper House, delivers to Mr. Speaker, the
Bill, entituled, An Act for the Security of Purchasers and Others,
claiming by or from Protestant Aliens; Indorsed, "By the Upper
House of Assembly, 6th December 1758. Read the first Time and
ordered to lye on the Table" and thus "By the Upper House of
Assembly 20th December, 1758." Read the second Time, and will
not Pass; And,
The Bill, entituled, An Act for the keeping a Public Warehouse
for Inspecting Tobacco at the Land of Ease on South River;
Indorsed, By the Upper House of Assembly, 20th December, 1758.
Read the first and second Time, by an especial Order, and will Pass.
Signed p Order, J. Ross, Cl. Up. Ho.
Which Bill was Read here, and passed for Ingrossing.
On Motion, Leave given, to bring in a Bill for the Relief of
sundry languishing Prisoners in several County Goals in this Prov-
ince;
Ordered, That Col. Tilghman, and Mr. Edward Dorsey, do
prepare and bring in the same.
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L. H. J.
Liber No. 51
Dec. 20
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Upon Progression in Hearing the Petition of Mr. Henry Wood-
ward, the Petitioner having disqualified the Votes of Col. Benjamin
Tasker, Walter Batt, Henry Weedon, Robert Martin, Richard
Ford, Lawrence Maynard, James Heath, and of John Laidler, on
the Sitting Member's Poll, and the Sitting Member having added
one Vote to his Poll, and the Polls being even; The Council, for
both the Petitioner and the Sitting Member, informed the House,
that both Parties declined giving the House any further Trouble in
this Controversy, and were willing and desirous that the late Election
of Citizens for the City of Annapolis, so far as it concerns them,
should be declared Void.
Upon Consideration whereof, it is Unanimously Resolved, That
the said Election, so far as the same concerns the Petitioner and the
Sitting Member abovementioned, be and is declared Void.
Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrant to the Deputy
Secretary of this Province, to make out a new Writ of Election,
directed to the Mayor, Recorder and Aldermen, of the City of
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