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VI
PETITION OF JONAS GREEN, PRINTER, TO THE
GOVERNOR AND ASSEMBLY, 1762
[THIS PRINTED, PETITION IN THE FORM OF A BROADSIDE
PRESENTED TO THE ASSEMBLY AT ITS 1762 SESSION BY
JONAS GREEN, THE PROVINCIAL PRINTER, PRAYING PAY-
MENT FOR THE PRINTING HE HAD DONE FOR THE PROVINCE
IN RECENT YEARS, IS SELF EXPLANATORY. GREEN'S DIFFI-
CULTIES WITH THE ASSEMBLY ARE DISCUSSED IN DETAIL
ON PAGES lxxii-lxxv.]
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Printed
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Calvert
Papers
No. 672
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To his Excellency Horatio Sharpe, Esq; Governor and Com-
mander in Chief, in and over the Province of Maryland; and To
the Honourable the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly of the
said Province; The Petition of Jonas Green, Printer, most humbly
sheweth,
That he hath resided here, in the Service of the Public, as their
Printer, for 24 Years last past, and hopes to serve them as such, all
the few Remainder of his Days, with his utmost Skill and Ability;
That at his first coming to settle here, when the Province was quite
destitute of a Press, he was induced to it, by the Promises of the
Public Employ and Encouragement; and the plausible Hopes he had,
in so large a Province, of a constant Employment in his Calling in
those intervals when he should be employ'd on Public Business: But
by some unhappy Divisions which then subsisted among the several
Branches of the Legislature, he has been much disappointed in his
reasonable Expectations, and suffered greatly in the carrying on
his useful and expensive Art.
That his having his Salary cut off Five Pounds in each County
when there happened no Session of Assembly in the Year, and his
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