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"I hereby depute Philip Meroney to serve the within Precept.
Witness my Hand this 20.th Day of October 1770.
Robert Sanders Serj.t at Arms"
"Cepi Doctor Weisenthal, John Hart, R. Alexander— NE. Tho.s
Jones —
Philip Meroney"
The House being informed that M.r John Hart and M.r Jacob
Myers were attending at the Door, in Obedience to the Order of this
House of the twentieth Instant; Ordered, That they be called in,
and they appeared accordingly
Ordered, That the Copy of the Petition, signed by the Inhabitants
of Baltimore County, preferred to the Upper House last Session,
and the Resolve of this House upon the Letter which M.r Speaker
communicated, last Saturday, be read; and they were read accord-
ingly
The said John Hart and Jacob Myers were then asked what
Excuse they had to offer to the House for their having signed the
said Petition. They answered, that the Petition was brought to
them by several Gentlemen of Baltimore Town, who asked them
if they would sign a Petition to the Assembly about the Election:
That they, being ignorant of the Contents of the same, put their
Names to it The House accepted the Excuse. Ordered, That they
be discharged upon paying ffees
Ordered, That M.r Beall and M.r Gantt be a Committee to tax
the ffees arising against the said John Hart and Jacob Myers upon
the Orders of this House
Resolved, That no Member have Leave of Absence without Sick-
ness or other unavoidable Accident
M.r Ringgold brings in and delivers to M.r Speaker a Bill entitled
an Act to invest Isaac Perkins with an exclusive Privilege and Benefit
of making and selling a Machine for threshing of Wheat on a Model
by him invented. Which was read the first and second Time by an
especial Order & will pass
The Bill entitled An Act to impose a further Duty on Negroes
imported into this Province and for the better Support of County
Schools was read a second Time and will pass
The Order of the Day for taking into Consideration the Variation
of the Compass &.ta being read, the same is referred for Considera-
tion on Monday Morning
The Order of the Day for taking into further Consideration the
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