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passed. The first Maryland law requiring the licensing of dogs was passed at
the 1765 session. There was also passed an act to encourage the manufacture
of linen by the payment of bounties or prizes to those who submitted the best
examples produced by non-slave labor.

Six parochial acts were passed; these provided for the building of new
churches, chapels, or vestry-houses, for the creation of new parishes, and for
changes in parish bounds. Legislation was passed to enlarge Baltimore Town
and for the regulation of the town market. Two private acts were passed, one
authorizing the sale of entailed land belonging to the estate of the late Gov-
ernor, Samuel Ogle, owner of the celebrated "Belair stud" and the father of
Governor Benjamin Ogle; and the other to validate the sale of lands belonging
to the insolvent estate of Philip Covington of Somerset County.

Of the forty acts passed at the two 1765 sessions, fifteen were for the pur-
pose of continuing acts about to expire by time limitation.

Some important original source material bearing upon the history of Mary-
land for the 1764-1765 period, is only to be found in certain contemporary
printed pamphlets that are so rare as to be practically inaccessible to most
students of Maryland history. It has seemed advisable to the Committee on
Publications to reprint them in the Appendix. One of these is the Proceedings
of the Stamp Act Congress held in New York in October, 1765, from the press
of Jonas Green of Annapolis. This very rare pamphlet, of which only two
copies are known, not only contains an account of the events leading up to the
calling of the Congress and of the proceedings of that body, but also tells what
was done by the three representatives of Maryland at the Congress and imme-
diately thereafter, not to be found elsewhere. Attention here should also be
called to another pamphlet which appeared from the press of Jonas Green,
when the Congress was in session. Although it appeared anonymously, the
author was soon known to all to be the noted lawyer, Daniel Dulany, the
Younger, of Annapolis. Nothing that was written either in America or in
England against the Stamp Act showed the same legal learning as did Dulany
in his "Considerations on the Propriety of imposing Taxes in the British Col-
onies, for the Purpose of raising Revenue, by Act of Parliament". This pam-
phlet, with the name of the author now revealed, was widely reprinted through-
out the colonies and in England, and nothing contributed more to further
the repeal of the Stamp Act than did the arguments brought forward by Dulany.
Pitt held the pamphlet in his hand and quoted from it in the House of Com-
mons when he led the forces which brought about repeal. It has been said
with truth that there was exhibited in it "a degree of legal learning, of acumen,
and of literary power, which gave to it, both in America and England, the