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Col. Tilghman brings in and delivers to Mr. Speaker, a Bill,
entituled, An Act for the Relief of certain languishing Prisoners
in the several County Goals therein mentioned ;
Which was Read the first and second Time by an especial Order,
and will Pass.
An ingrossed Bill, entituled, An Act to impower the Justices of
Charles County, to levy on the taxable Inhabitants of Port-Tobacco
Parish in said County, a Sum not exceeding Two Pounds of Tobacco
per Poll annually, for the Support of an Organist in said Parish;
And,
An ingrossed Bill, entituled, An Act for granting a Sum of Money
as a Present to the Forces late in the Pay of this Province, and taken
into his Majesty's Service by Brigadier General Forbes ;
Were severally Read and Assented to, and sent to the Upper
House, with the Paper Bills thereof, and the Prisoners Bill, by Mr.
Murdock and Mr. Edmondson.
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L. H. J.
Liber No. 51
Dec. 23
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Col. Tilghman brings in and delivers to Mr. Speaker, an Address
to his Excellency; which was Read, Approved, and Ordered to be
Ingrossed.
On reading and considering the Report brought in on the 20th
Instant by Col. Tilghman, relative to Mr. Bacon's Proposals for
Revising and Printing the Laws; the House concurs therewith; and
Referred the same for Consideration at the next Session of Assembly.
Benedict Calvert, Esq; from the Upper House, delivers to Mr.
Speaker, the Bill, entituled, An Act for the Relief of certain languish-
ing Prisoners in the several County Goals therein mentioned; In-
dorsed, By the Upper House of Assembly, December 23, 1758.
Read the first Time, and will not Pass.
Signed per Order, J. Ross, Cl. Up. Ho.
Mr. Murdock brings in and delivers to Mr. Speaker, the following
Ingrossed Address, viz.
To his Excellency Horatio Sharpe, Esq; Governor and Commander
in Chief in and over the Province of Maryland :
The humble Address of the House of Delegates.
May it please your Excellency,
The Business of this Session being near a Conclusion, when your
Excellency was pleased to recommend to us in your Speech of the
19th Instant, to prepare a Bill for obliging Masters of Vessels, that
shall come to this Province thro' the Capes of Virginia, to pay a
Duty towards Building a Light-House on Cape-Henry, and keeping
a Light therein; we thought proper to defer the Consideration of
that, and the other Matter recommended to us, till our next Meeting :
And as we have now finished all the Business which we can proceed
on at this Time, the Season being far advanced, and the Weather so
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