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ings of the Com.^rs or Trustees for emitting Bills of Credit Estab-
lished by Act of Assembly and desire your Honours to Appoint
one or more of the members of your House to join in the said
Committee.
Signed p Order M. Macnemara Cl. Lo. Ho.

The following Message is sent to the Lower House by Richard
Lee Esq
By the Upper House of Assembly 26^th Octo.^r 1758
Gentlemen
This House hath appointed Richard Lee Esq to join the members
named by your House in a Committee to inspect the accounts and
Proceedings of the Commissioners of the Paper Currency Office
Signed p order J Ross Cl. Up. Ho.

Adjourned till to Morrow Morning at 10. of the Clock

U. H. J.

Liber No. 35
Oct. 26

Friday Morning 27.^th October 1758
This House met again According to Adjournment
Present as Yesterday and Col Hammond
Mess.^rs Sullivan and Edmunson from the Lower House attend
with M.^r Charles Goldsborough a member elected for Dorchester
County to See him qualified who Takes the oaths to the Government
appointed to be Taken by Act of Assembly repeats and Subscribes
the abjuration and Test and then withdraws
Read the Petition of Thomas Bacon Clerk Rector of S^t Peters
Parish in Talbot County Praying that Some Encouragement may
be given him for the Pains and Trouble he has been at in Collecting
revising and Abridging the Laws of this Province referred to the
Consideration of the Lower House and sent by Richard Lee Esq.
Adjourned till 3 of the Clock in the afternoon

Eodem die Post Meridiem
This House met again According to Adjournment
Present as in the morning

Oct. 27

Benjamin Tasker Esq attended by the members of this House
presents to his Excellency their Address which follows in these
words
To his Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esq.^r and Commander in Chief
in and Over the Province of Maryland
The Humble Address of the Upper House of Assembly
May it Please your Excellency.
The extraordinary Zeal which our Troops, under many discourag-
ing Circumstances have Shewen for his Majestys Service, and the

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