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We return you the Bill for the Payment of John Duckett .....
[The message beginning thus is printed in full in the Lower House
Journal, pp. 407-408.]

U. H. J.
Liber No. 36
Nov, 17

Adjourned until Monday Morning 10 of the Clock.

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Monday Morning 19:^th November 1770.
The House met again according to Adjournment.

Present as Yesterday and Dan.^l Dulany Esq:^r
Mess:^rs Johnson and Hall from the Lower House bring up the
following Message.
By the Lower House of Assembly 19:^th [17] November 1770.
May it please your Honours.
From recapitulating in your Messages particular Parts of your
Conduct ..... [The lengthy message beginning thus is printed in
full in the Lower House Journal, pp. 411-414.]

Nov. 19

Mess:^rs Allen and Bordley bring up a Bill entitled. "A Supple-
mentary Act to the Act entitled an Act to prevent disabled and
Superanuated Slaves being Set Free or the Manumission of Slaves
by any last Will or Testament." Read the first and second time by
an especial Order in the Lower House and will not Pass.
Mess:^rs Ringgold and Tilghman bring up a Bill entitled. "An
Act relating to Replevins." Read the first and second time in the
Lower House and will not Pass —
Mess:^rs Thomas and Purnel bring up an Engrossed Bill, entitled
"An Act for the Relief of certain Prisoners in the several Jails
therein mentioned." Read and Assented to by the Lower House of
Assembly, which was Read and Assented to by this House and
ordered to be so Subscribed, the Paper Bill so Endorsed sent to the
Lower House by William Hayward Esquire.
Mess:^rs Griffith and Wootton bring up a Bill, entitled. "An Act
for the Adjournment and Continuance of Ann Arundel and Fred-
erick County Courts" — Read the first and second time by an especial
Order in the Lower House, and will Pass — which was Read the
first and second time, by an Especial Order in this House, and will
not Pass — So Endorsed & Sent to the Lower House by William
Fitzhugh Esq.

Adjourned until three of the Clock in the Afternoon

Eodem Die Post Meridiem.
The House met again according to Adjournment.

Present as in the Morning.
Read the second Time in this House the Bill, entitled. "An Act
to divide All Saints Parish in Frederick County, and to erect two

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