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The House met according to Adjournment.
The Members were called and all appeared as on Yesterday.
The Proceedings of Yesterday were read
The Petition of Thomas Hamilton, and the Petition of Stepney
Parish severally read the first Time and ordered to lie on the Table.
M.r Key & M.r Gantt appeared in the House
M.r Ringgold brings in and delivers to M.r Speaker a Petition of
John Clayton, praying that an Act may pass to give him the exclusive
Right of making a Machine for threshing Wheat which was read
a first and second Time.
Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the Consideration
of a Committee, and that they do examine the Matter thereof, and
report the same, as it shall appear to them to the House:
And M.r Ringgold, M.r N. Thomas, M.r Purnell, M.r Gilpin,
M.r Noel, M.r Luckett, M.r Worthington, M.r J. Paca, M.r Gale,
M.r Ware, M.r Wright, M.r Key, M.r J. Hall, M.r Tyler, and M.r
Parran are appointed the said Committee —
Ordered, That the Order of the Day for the House to resolve
itself into a Committee of the whole House to take into further
Consideration the Regulation of Officers ffees be now read and the
said Order being read accordingly, the House resolved itself into
the said Committee and after some Time spent therein M.r Speaker
resumed the Chair, and M.r Worthington reported from the Com-
mittee, That they had made some further Progress therein, and
prayed that they might have Leave to sit again
Resolved, That this House will, at the Meeting of the House, on
Saturday Morning next, resolve itself into a Committee of the
whole House to take into further Consideration the Regulation
of Officers ffees.
M.r Grahame hath Leave of Absence
The Older of the Day for taking into Consideration the Matter
recommended in his Excellency's Speech (relative to the Criminal
Law) being read the same is referred for Consideration on Friday
the 19.th Instant.
William Hayward Esq from the Upper House delivers to M.r
Speaker the following Petitions
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