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Ordered to lye on the Table & thus by the Upper house of Assembly
27,^th Oct.^r 1763. Read the Second time & will pass
Signed p Order J. Ross, Cl. Up. Ho.

L. H. J.
Liber No. 52
Oct. 27

Which bills were Severally read here & passed for Ingrossing
On Motion ordered that M^r Grahame M.^r Wright M.^r Hanson
M^r Smallwood & Col^o Cresap be a Committee to examine the Agents,
Accounts, and Make Report thereof to the House,
The house Adjourned till 2, of the Clock

Post Meridiem
The house met according to Adjournment &c^a
M^r Tilghman brings in and delivers to M^r Speaker a bill Entituled
a Supplementary Act to the Act Ent.^d An Act for emitting & making
Current 90000.^lb current money of Maryland in bills of Credit; which
was Read the first time, & ordered to lye on the Table.
M^r Goldsborough brings in and delivers to M^r Speaker the follow-
ing Report (Vizt)
By the Committee of Elections and Priviledges, Oct.^r 27, 1763.
Your Committee have inspected the Writ for Electing a Deputy
and Delegate for Caecil County, and the Return thereon and do find
that M^r Nathan Baker of Caecil County, is returned, your Committee
beg leave to Observe to the hon.^ble House, that the Indenture annexed
to the Said Writ is not agreable to the Usual form of Indentures,
that it only Delegates the said Member by the Terms thereof, to
Serve in the General Assembly then Sitting, which your Committee
apprehend to be irregular all which is Submitted to the Honourable
House.
Signed p Order Esme Bayly. Clk

Which was read and Ordered to lye on the Table
Col.^o Tilghman brings in and delivers to M^r Speaker, an Ingrossed
Bill Ent^d An Act for giving a bounty for Indian Scalps and prisoners,
and an Ingrossed Bill Ent.^d An Act for prohibiting all trade with
the Indians for the time therein mentioned which Bills were severally
Read, and Assented to, & sent to the Upper house with the paper
bills, by Col^o Tilghman & M^r Dent,
The House adjourns till the Morrow Morning at 9, of the Clock

p. 143

Friday Morning 28.^th Oct.^r 1763.
The house met according to Adjournment &c.^a
M^r Worthington & M^r Henry Hall appeared in the house
Cap.^t Chapline has leave of Absence

Oct. 28