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If you will frame a Bill correspondent with either of the above
Propositions, it will receive our Chearful Assent
Signed p Order Upton Scott Cl: Up Ho:

Adjourned until 3 oClock in the Afternoon

Eodem Die post Meridiem
This House met according to Adjournment

Present as in the Morning
Mess.^rs Holliday & Ware bring up the following engrossed Bills
read & assented by the Lower House Viz.^t
An Act for the speedy and effectual Publication of the Laws of
this Province, and for the Encouragem.^t of Jonas Green of the
City of Annapolis Printer.
An Act for the laying out a new & the settling & ascertaining the
future Bounds and Limits of S^t Lukes, Christ Church, and S^t Johns
Parishes in Queen Anns County & S^t Pauls Parish lying partly in
Queen Ann's and partly in Talbot Counties.
Read and assented to in this House and ordered to be so sub-
scribed.
The Paper Bills so subscribed sent by John Ridout Esquire
Adjourned until 10 ^oClock Tomorrow Morning

U. H. J.
Liber No. 36
Dec. 16

Tuesday Morning 17^th December 1765
This House met according to Adjournment
Present as Yesterday except Col Hammond
Adjourned until 3 oClock in the Afternoon

Eodem Die post Meridiem
This House met according to Adjournment
The following Account was laid before this House by the Gentle-
men appointed to meet the Committees of the different Provinces of
America in October last at New York

Dec. 17

An Account of the Disposition of the £500 granted by Ordinance and
received of the Treasurer of the Western Shore by William Murdock
Esquire, Edward Tilghman and Thomas Ringgold.

p. 262

£ S D

To Cash paid the whole Expences of the Committee to
New York and back again ......................

138..14.. 1

To Cash paid Express to N: York to give Notice of
Our Coming ................................

15.. 0., 0

To Cash paid Express to send a Copy of our Proceed
ings to the Speaker of Virginia .................

1...10 0