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U. H. J.
Liber No. 36
Oct. 6
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Read and referred to the Consideration of the Lower House of
Assembly the Petition of Bartholomew Pomeroy — So Endorsed and
Sent by John Ridout Esq.r
The following Message is Sent to the Lower House by William
Hayward Esq:r
By the Upper House of Assembly 6:th of October 1770.
Gentlemen
On the Receipt of your Message of this Day we returned to our
Journals and find therein the following Entries.
"Tuesday Morning 5:th December 1769, Read a Petition of
sundry Inhabitants of Baltimore County praying that this House
will not pass a Bill, now laying before them entitled, An Act for
Appointing Places for holding the next Election of Delegates for
Baltimore County, Resolved that this House will proceed to take
into Consideration the Merits of the said Petition on a second
Reading of the Bill on Friday the 8.th Instant. Ordered that the
Clerk of this House give the parties concerned Notice thereof,
that they may attend by Council if they desired it."
"Friday 8.th December 1769, Read, agreeable to the Order of the
Day, the Petition of sundry Inhabitants of Baltimore County against
the Passage of a Bill laying before this House, intituled An Act
for appointing places for holding the next Election of Delegates for
Baltimore County, and, on hearing the Allegations of the Counsel
for and against the Petition, it is ordered that the same be Rejected."
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p. 452
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The Petition above mentioned has not been transcribed at large
into our Journals or Proceedings, and the Original, on its being
Rejected, was withdrawn by the parties on their Application, accord
ing to the usage of this House —
Signed by Order U Scott Cl. Up. Ho.
Adjourned until to Morrow Morning 10 of the Clock.
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