114 Assembly Proceedings, November 1-December 20, 1765.

U. H. J.
Liber No. 36
Dec. 20
p. 293

Read and referred to the Consideration of the Lower House the
Petition of Geo: Mathews of Baltimore County sent by Daniel
Dulany Esquire.
The Engrossed Bill by Mess..^rs Bealle and Smith for the Purchase
of Stationary Ware Read and assented to.
Read and assented to by this House and ordered to be so sub-
scribed.

The Paper Bill so endorsed sent by Benedict Calvert Esquire.
Benedict Calvert & Daniel Dulany Esq^rs sent to the Lower House
to acquaint the Speaker that his Excellency requires his immediate
Attendance with the Lower House to see the Bills passed both Houses
this Session receive the Assent.
The Lower House attend, and by their Speaker present to his
Excellency the follow^g Bills Viz.^t
An Act for limiting the Time for sinking the Paper Bills of Credit
now Current in this Province and other Purposes therein mentioned.
An Act to enable the Commissioners or Trustees of the Loan Office
to purchase Stationary Ware for the Use of the Upper and Lower
Houses of Assembly.
Which his Excellency passed into Laws in the usual Form by
Sealing them with the Lord Proprietarys Great Seal at Arms and
subscribing them on Behalf of the Right Honoble the Lord Pro-
prietary of this Province I will This be a Law, after which his Ex-
cellency was pleased to conclude this Session with the following
Speech.
Gentlemen of the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly.
I have thought fit with the Advice of his Lordships Council of
State to prorogue this Assembly to the first Monday in March
next you are therefore to take Notice that you are prorogued to
that Day accordingly.
Thus ends this Session of Assembly begun and held at the City
of Annapolis on Friday the first Day of Novem.^r and ending the 20..^th
Day of December following, in the Fifteenth Year of his Lordships
Dominion and in the sixth Year of his Majestys Reign Anno
Domini 1765.
Upton Scott Cl: Up: Ho.

[The following account of the claims against the Province by
the clerk of the Upper House, when acting as clerk of the Council,
was sent by the Upper House to the Lower House on December p,
1765, with the Upper House committee report of that date. See page
216. Why it was not inserted in the journal of the Upper House
for that date instead of at the end of the journal of that session is
not disclosed.]