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Which was Read, and thereupon Ordered, That Mr. Edward
Tilghman, Mr. James Tilghman, Mr. Murdock, Mr. Hammond,
Mr. Ringgold, and Mr. Robert Lloyd, do prepare and bring in a
Message, to be sent to the Upper House, in Answer to their
Message of this Day.
On Motion, Ordered, That Mr. Edward Tilghman, Mr. James
Tilghman, Mr. Murdock, and Mr. Hammond, do prepare and bring
in an Address, to be presented to his Excellency, in Answer to his
Message of the 2Oth of March.
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L. H. J.
Liber No. 52
April 13
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The House adjourns till 2 of the Clock.
Post-Meridiem. The House met according to Adjournment.
Mr. Grahame brings in and delivers to Mr. Speaker, the following
Report:
By the Committee appointed by the Honourable the Lower House
of Assembly, to enquire into the Facts set forth in the Petition of
Jonas Green.
Your Committee, upon Examination of the Facts contained in
the said Petition, find, That no Act passed in the Year 1738 or
1739, for the Levying or Payment of any Salary to the said Jonas
Green; but that in the Year 1742 he was allowed £120 in the Journal
of Accounts, the Payment of which was in 1743; and in the Year
1748, an Act passed, impowering and requiring Mrs. Hollyday,
Executrix of James Hollyday, Esquire, to pay £180 to the said
Jonas Green, for his Salaries in 1738 and 1739. That an Act passed
in the Year 1740, to continue till the ist of December, 1742, for the
yearly Allowance of £15 in each County to the said Jonas Green,
but no Session happening after the Expiration of that Act, till May
1744, the said Jonas Green had no Allowance for the Year 1743,
till an Allowance was made to him on the Journal of Accounts of
£144 in the Year 1744, which was not paid till 1747: That in the
Year 1744, an Act passed, to continue till the 25th of December,
1745, which, in August 1745, was continued till the 25th of Decem-
ber, 1746, giving the said Jones Green the £15 yearly Allowance, in
each County, as Printer; and in June 1746, an Act passed, impower-
ing the Justices of Talbot and St. Mary's County to levy £15 in each
County in November 1746, for the said Jonas Green's Use, omitted
to be levied in Talbot in 1742, and in St. Mary's in 1744: That in
May 1747, the said Act of 1744 was revived and continued till the
25th of December 1748, and an additional Allowance of £5 in each
County given to the said Jones Green for printing the Votes; but if
no Session or Convention, the additional Allowance to cease: That in
May 1749, an Act passed to continue till the 25th December, 1750,
£20 yearly Allowance to the said Jonas Green, in each County, for
his printing the Laws and Votes; but if no Session, £5 Part of
the Allowance in each County, to cease: By this Act £40 was to be
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