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of Naval Officer of Patuxent and also a Writ of Election directed to
the Sherriff of Charles County to Elect a Delegate to serve in the
General Assembly of this Province now Sitting in the Room of M.^r
John Trueman Stoddert deceased
The Order of the Day being read the House took into Considera-
tion the Letters and Papers delivered to M.^r Speaker by the Deputy
Post Masters M.^r Green and M.^r Steuart and Resolved Unanimously
that three Members of this House be Appointed a Committee to
meet the Committees from the Houses of Representatives or Bur-
gesses of the several British Colonys on this Continent at the City
of New York on the first Tuesday of October next for the purposes
mentioned in the said Letter of the 8:^th of June.
Resolved that this House will not at this meeting proceed to any
Business other than such as may be dependant upon or relative to
the Subject of the said two Letters
Resolved that a Messenger be Dispatched from hence with a Letter
from the Speaker to the Committee of the House of Representatives
of Massachusetts Bay at New York inclosing a Copy of the said first
Resolve. On Motion Ordered that the petition of Rights and Bill of
Rights be Read which was accordingly done.
The House Adjourns till 2 of the Clock

L. H. J.
Liber No. 52
Sept. 24

Post Meridiem
The House met According to Adjournment

Cap.^t Joseph Chapline a Delegate returned to serve in this As-
sembly for Frederick County M.^r Woolman Gibson a Delegate re-
turned for Talbot County M.^r John and M.^r William Adams Dele-
gates returned for Somerset County Appeared in the House
Ordered that M.^r Edmunson M.^r Chaille and M:^r Fielder Ganntt
do go with those Gentlemen to the Upper House to see them qualified,
they return and Acquaint M.^r Speaker that the Gentlemen were quali-
fied in the usual Manner by taking the several Oaths to the Govern-
ment required by Law by Subscribing the Oath of Abjuration
repeating and Signing the Test
The Gentlemen took their Seats in the House
On Motion Resolved That Col:^o Tilghman William Murdock Esq :^r
and Thomas Ringgold Esq:^r be a Committee to meet the Committees
from the Houses of Representatives or Burgesses of the several
British Colonies on this Continent at the City of New York on the
first Tuesday of October next for the purposes mentioned in the said
Letter of the 8:^th of June
On Motion Ordered that James Hollyday Esq:^r Thomas Johnson
Esq:^r Edmund Key Esq:^r M.^r J: Goldsborough John Hammond
Esq:^r Daniel Wolstenholme Esq:^r and M:^r John Hanson Jun:^r be a

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