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Law, and for a high Contempt of this House; and him keep safe
and close in the publick Goal until he shall be thence discharged by
Order of this House. And for your so doing this shall be your
sufficient Warrant
Signed per Order of the House E Tilghman Speaker"

To John Clapham, Esq Sheriff of Ann Arundel County, and
Keeper of the publick Goal in the City of Annapolis —
Ordered, That the Serjeant, at Arms, attending this House, do
deliver William Steuart, now in his Custody, to the Sheriff of Ann
Arundel County, with the said Warrant
The House adjourns till To Morrow Morning Eight O'Clock

L. H. J.
Liber No. 54
Nov. 1

Friday 2:^nd November 1770

Nov. 2

The House met according to Adjournment.

The Members were called and all appeared as on Yesterday.
The Proceedings of Yesterday were read
The ingrossed Bill N.^o 20 read and assented to and sent to the
Upper House with the Paper Bill thereof by M.^r Griffith and M.^r
Tyler. They return and acquaint M.^r Speaker they delivered the Bill

M.^r Luckett brings in and delivers to M.^r Speaker a Bill entitled
An Act to establish a Market in Frederick Town in Frederick County
and for the Regulation of the said Market Which was read the first
Time and ordered to lie on the Table
The ingrossed Bills N.^o 21 and 22 read and assented to and sent
to the Upper House with the Paper Bills thereof by M.^r N. Thomas
and M.^r Allen. They return and acquaint M.^r Speaker they delivered
the Bills
On Motion, Ordered, That the Report of the Committee ap-
pointed to inspect the publick Offices and to enquire from the several
Officers their Deputies Registers or Clerks into the Annual Amount
of the ffees that have accrued due to the said Officers of this Prov-
ince for seven Years last past, of the third Day of October, and also
the Report of the same Committee of the twelfth Day of October
be printed in the next Week's Maryland Gazette and be continued
for six Weeks successively.

M.^r J. Hall brings in and delivers to M.^r Speaker the following
Report.

By the Committee appointed to enquire into the Truth of the
several ffacts set forth in the Petition of Edward Tilghman, Solomon
Wright, Attorney at Law, Mary Wright, Widow, Francis Barnes,
jun.^r and Philemon Murphy, Farmers, and James Coursey, House
Joiner, of Queen Anne's County, and Thomas Coursey, John Cour-

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