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That Messieurs Joseph Chapline, Nathan Magruder, Thomas
Beatty, and Thomas Cresap, Delegates of Fredreick County, are
duly Returned.
That Messieurs George Stuart and Walter Dulany, Delegates of
the City of Annapolis, are duly Returned.
Your Committee beg Leave to observe, that they find in the Form
of the Writ of Election, directed by the Act of Assembly, the follow-
ing Sentence: "And during the Courts sitting, the said Freemen
are required to appear, or the major Part of such of them as shall
then appear, shall and may, and are hereby authorized, &c.a" and that
the Writ of Election for Charles County does vary from the said
Form, by the Words shall and may being left out in the said Para-
graph of the said Writ. And that in the Writ of Election for Fred-
erick County, the Words affixed to these Presents, expressed in the
latter Part of the Form of the Writ directed by the Act of Assembly
of this Province, is also omitted. Both which Variances we take to
be Omissions of the Clerk in making out the said Writs.
All which is humbly submitted to the Consideration of your
Honourable House.
Signed p Order, Richard Tilghman, junior, Clerk.
Which was read and ordered to lie on the table.
Ordered that Mr. J. Goldsborough, Mr. Beall and Mr. Hayward
be a Committee to inquire what Laws will expire at the End of this
Session, and report the same to the House.
Mr. Charles Goldsborough brings in and delivers to Mr. Speaker,
a Bill, entituled, An Act for the Adjournment and Continuance of
Queen-Anne's and Prince-George's County Courts; which was Read
the first Time, and Ordered to lie on the Table.
The House appointed Mr. William Wilkins a Clerk, to attend the
several Committees that may be appointed this Session.
Ordered, That Mr. Henry Hall do Qualify him in the usual
Manner.
Mr. Henry Hall acquaints Mr. Speaker, That Mr. William Wilkins
had taken the several Oaths to the Government required by Law,
subscribed the Oath of Abjuration, repeated and signed the Test,
and took the following Oath of Office:
[You William Wilkins do swear, that you will true Entries make
of all such Matters and Things as shall be to you directed by any
Committee of the Lower House of Assembly, for whom you shall
act as Clerk; and that you will not divulge the Secrets of the said
House of Assembly, or of any Committee thereof; but will, in all
Things, well and truly demean yourself, according to the best of your
Knowledge: So help you God. EDITOR'S NOTE. — This oath appears
in the contemporary printed Votes and Proceedings but not in the
original manuscript journal.]
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L. H. J.
Liber No. 52
March 19
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