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68 Assembly Proceedings, November 17-December 20,1769.
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L. H. J.
Liber No. 54
Dec. 7
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have taken his Deposition which is hereunto annexed. That it ap-
pears to your Committee by the Information of Captain Francis
Ware, one of your Committee, that the Room of the private Jail,
in which Richard Lee Junior, Sheriff of Charles County, detains his
Prisoners for Debt, is about fifteen or sixteen Feet square, and had
not any Fire Place therein when he saw it in September last.
All which is humbly submitted to the Consideration of your Hon-
orable House
Sign'd p Order. Ralph Dobinson Cl. Com
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p. 23
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Which was read the first and second Time.
Ordered, That the Serjeant at Arms, attending this House, do
forthwith take into his Custody the Body of Richard Lee, jun.r
Sheriff of Charles County, and have him at the Bar of this House,
to answer for his Contempt in not obeying the former Order of this
House, Dated the 25th Day of November 1769. And also to answer
at the Bar of this House, to the Petitions of John Doncastle and
William Wright, against him, complaining of Misconduct towards
them as Prisoners in his Jail.
The House adjourns 'til To-morrow Morning 9 o'Clock.
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Dec. 8
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Friday, December 8.th
The House met according to Adjournment.
The Members were called, and all appeared as on Yesterday, except
M.r Beall.
The Proceedings of Yesterday were read.
M.r Goldsborough brought in, and delivered to M.r Speaker, the
Journal of Accounts.
The Order of the Day being read, the House proceeded to the
Consideration of the Amendments proposed, by the Upper House, to
the Bill, entitled, An Act for issuing Writs of Replevin out of the
County Courts of this Province: And the Question was put, that
this House do agree to the First Amendment? Resolved in the
Negative.
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For the Negative.
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M.r Eden,
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M.r Ware,
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M.r Ward,
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W. Thomas,
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Harrison,
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Tyler,
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Ringgold,
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Dickinson,
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Hall,
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Chase,
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Goldsborough,
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Paca,
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Worthington,
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M Tilghman,
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E Tilghman,
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Griffith,
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N. Thomas,
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Allen,
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Johnson,
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Sulivane,
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Selbey,
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Mackall,
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Hooper,
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Luckett.
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Grahame,
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Steele,
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