84 Assembly Proceedings, October 2-November 30, 1771.

L. H. J.
Liber No. 54
Oct. 4

Friday October 4.^th 1771
The House met.

All Members present as on Yesterday.
The Proceedings of Yesterday were read
M.^r Speaker communicates to the House a Letter from the Speaker
of the House of Burgesses of Virginia accompanied with an Account
of the Tonnage for Rappahanock; an Account of the Tonnage for
South Potowmack; an Account of Tonnage for York River; An
Account of Tonnage for the Upper District of James River; and
an Account of the Tonnage for the lower District of James River.

Ordered, That the said Letter be read; and it was read accord-
ingly

Ordered, That the said Accounts do lie on the Table for the
Perusal of the Members
M.^r Speaker reports to the House the following Certificate
Ann Arundel County S.^ct
I hereby certify that on the 4^th Day of October 1771 came
William Wright before me the Subscriber one of the Justices of
the Peace for the said County & took the several Oaths to the Gov-
ernment required by Law subscribed the Oath of Abjuration re-
peated and signed the Text and took the following Oath Viz.^t
"I William Wright do swear that I will true Entries make of all
such Matters and Things as shall be to me directed by any Cum-
mittee of the Lower House of Assembly for whom I shall act as
Clerk and that I will not divulge the Secrets of the said House or
of any Committee thereof but will in all Things well and truly
demean myself according to the best of my Skill and Knowledge"
R. Ghiselin

M.^r Saint George Peale is appointed a Committee Clerk.
Ordered, That he be qualified.
The House being informed that M.^r William Smallwood a Dele-
gate returned for Charles County was attending at the Door,
Ordered, That M.^r Harrison and M.^r Hawkins do go with that
Gentleman to the Upper House to see him qualified.
They return and acquaint M.^r Speaker they saw him qualified
in the usual Manner. The Gentleman takes his Seat in the House.
Information being given by a Gentleman from the Committee
Accounts to the House that no Journal of Accounts nor any
Duplicate thereof lay before the said Committee but that the
Journal remained in the Upper House ever since the End of the
first Session in November last A Motion was thereupon made
that a Message be sent to the Upper House desiring them to
send back the Journal