8 Assembly Proceedings, November 17-December 20, 1769.

U. H. J.
Liber No. 36
Nov. 21

By the Lower House of Assembly 21.^st November 1769.
May it please Your Honours.

This House have Resolved to Sit only from Nine of the Clock
in the Morning till one — in the Afternoon, during this Session, which
we thought proper your Honours should be made acquainted with.

Signed by Order. T: Wright Cl. Lo. ho.

The following Message is Sent by Benedict Calvert Esq.
By the Upper House of Assembly 21:^st November 1769.
Gentlemen

This House hath appointed Benedict Calvert and Walter Dulany
Esq.™, to join the Members of Your House, named by you for the
Purposes in Your Message of this Afternoon, by Mess.^rs Worthing-
ton and Willson.
Signed by Order U Scott Cl. Upp. ho

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Adjourned until to Morrow Morning 10 of the Clock.

Nov. 22

Wednesday Morning 22.^d November 1769.
The House met again according to Adjournment.

Present as Yesterday,
Adjourned until to Morrow Morning 10 of the Clock.

Nov. 23

Thursday Morning 23.^d November 1769.
The House met again according to Adjournment.

Present as Yesterday and Col.^o Hammond.

Read the Petition of John Doncastle of Charles County. Ordered
that the Clerk of this House give Notice to the said Doncastle, and
likewise to Doctor David Ross, who, at a former Session of As-
sembly, had preferred a Petition against Doncastles Releasement,
that they will take the said Petition again into their Consideration
on Monday the 4.^th Day of December next.

Read and referred the Petition of the Rector, Vestrymen, Church
Wardens and other Inhabitants of Saint Lukes Parish, in Queen
Anns County, the Petition of the Visitors of Frederick County
Public School, And also the Petition of Sundry Inhabitants of Dor-
chester County. These Petitions sent by John Beale Bordley Esq.

Read and Rejected the Petitions of Elizabeth Gosling, and also of
Thomas Pindall and Mary his Wife Executrix of Col.^o Edward
Sprigg.
Adjourned until to Morrow Morning 10 of the Clock.