252 Assembly Proceedings, September 25-November 2, 1770.

L. H. J.
Liber No. 54
Oct. 13

Bill is repugnant to the Laws Usage and Customs of this Province,
introductive of a new Mode of Election, hitherto unknown, founded
upon Assertions of a few Individuals, not supported by, but devoid
of Truth, we humbly submit to the Consideration of your Excellency
and Honours whether such ought to be past into a Law —

William Ottey

Jacob Myers

John Smith

Benjamin Rogers

Thomas Jones

William Spear

Samuel Owings jun.^r

Robert Alexander

Thomas Worthing-

John Haden

John Boyd

ton

Ja: Sterritt

Charles Weisenthall

Mordeca Mordecai

John Purviance

James Kelly

Elias Barnaby

Jonathan Plowman

John Owen

John Dodge

John Cannon

W.^m Westbag

Barnett Echelberger

John Horn

Philip Miller

R Moale

Jacob Dowdal

John Hartt

Charles Ridgely

Sam Roddny

[Editor's Note. The names indicated by dashes [ —— ——— ] are
illegible. See second paragraph below.]

Whereupon it is ordered that Summons issue for M.^r William
Hutchings to appear at the Bar of this House at three O'Clock this
Afternoon to answer unto such Questions as may be then and there
put to him by the Honourable Speaker and the House in Relation
to the said Paper.
The House being informed that William Hutchings was attend-
ing at the Door agreeable to the said Summons Ordered That he
be called in — The said Hutchings appearing accordingly and being
sworn declared to the following Effect "That the Paper shewn to
him was wrote by him — That some Time last Sessions of Assembly
M.^r Thomas Cockey Deye desired him to make a Copy of a Paper
which he understood was called a Remonstrance to the Upper House
by some People in Baltimore County, and that he wrote the Paper

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now shewn him for a true Copy of the said Remonstrance and that
the Signers Names which are in English were also truly copied;
but as to the Dutch Names he cannot say whether the Characters
are exactly copied — That he and M.^r Deye examined the said Copy
with the Original and found it to be a true Copy" — And then he
withdrew
M.^r Deye, a Member of the House, being desired to declare to
the House what he knew concerning the said Paper, said, "That
he and M.^r John Paca received a Notice in Writing from Doctor
Scott, Clerk of the Upper House That some Gentlemen in Baltimore
County had put in a counter Petition against their Petition for an
Act to hold the Election of Baltimore County at different Places: