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L. H. J.
Liber No. 51
Oct. i
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to us by your Excellency at the Opening of the Session, we request
you will be pleased to lay before us (as has been usual on like Oc-
casions) the Letter you have received from General Monckton, con-
taining the Requisition of Two Hundred Men from this Province,
that we may be enabled to proceed with the greater Dispatch.
Which was Read and Assented to, and Signed, by Order of the
House, by the Honourable Speaker.
The House adjourns till 2 of the Clock Afternoon.
Post-Meridiem. The House met according to Adjournment.
Mr. Worthington appeared in the House.
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Ordered, That Mr. Matthew Tilghman and Mr. Thomas do
acquaint the Governor, That this House hath prepared an Address,
to be presented to him, and desires to know when and where he
will receive it. They return and acquaint Mr. Speaker, That his
Excellency signified he would be ready to receive the Address in a
Quarter of an Hour in the Conference Chamber.
Ordered, That Mr. Gassaway, with Three more, do present the
Address to the Governor.
Stephen Bordley, Esq; from the Upper House, delivers to Mr.
Speaker, the Bill, entituled, An Act for Easing the Inhabitants of
this Province, from the great and unequal Burthen of the additional
Land-Tax; Indorsed, By the Upper House of Assembly, 30th Sep-
tember, 1760. Read the first Time, and Ordered to lie on the Table.
And thus, By the Upper House of Assembly, 1st October, 1760.
Read the second Time, and will Pass with the following Amend-
ments; In Page 3d, Line 18th, put or instead of and. Leave out
the Pages 4 and 5. In the 3d and 4th Line of 6th Page, leave out
the Honourable Samuel Chamberlaine, Philip Thomas, Benjamin
Tasker, junior, Richard Lee, and Benedict Calvert, Esquires, and a
blank Space to be left, to be fill'd up with Names by this House. In
9th Line of the same Page, leave out the Word Three, and insert
One. In the 13th Line of the same Page, instead of Eight put Five ;
and in the next Line, instead of Eight, put the next ensuing. In
16th Line of the same Page, instead of Two, put Five then. In the
20th Line of the same Page, instead of Eight put Six. In the 7th
Line of the 7th Page, instead of Three put One. In the i6th line of
the 8th Page, instead of Three put One; and leave out the Proviso
in the same Page. In the 9th Page, Line 6th, instead of Four put
Two.
Signed p Order, J. Ross, Cl. Up. Ho.
The House adjourns till the Morrow Morning at 9 of the Clock.
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