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thus indorsed: "By the Upper House of Assembly, November 30,
1773: Read and referred to the Consideration of the Lower House
of Assembly.
Signed by Order, U. SCOTT, Cl. Up. Ho."
The House adjourns till 3 o'Clock
POST MERIDIEM.
The House met.
Mr. Ridgely and Mr. Robins appeared in the House.
The ingrossed Bills, No. 2, 3, 4, were severally read and assented
to, and sent to the Upper House with the Paper Bills thereof, by
Mr. Beall and Mr. Griffith.
Benedict Calvert and Daniel Dulnny, Esqrs. from the Upper
House, acquaint Mr. Speaker that the Governor desires the At-
tendance of this House immediately in the Council Chamber to see
the Inspection Law passed.
Mr. Speaker left the Chair, and attended by the Members of the
Lower House, went to the Upper House and presented to his Ex-
cellency an ingrossed Bill, entitled, An Act for the Regulation of
the Staple of Tobacco, and for preventing Frauds in his Majesty's
Customs: Which his Excellency passed into a Law in the usual
Manner.
The House returned. Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair.
The House adjourns till To-morrow Morning 9 o'Clock.
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Votes and
Proceedings
of the Lower
House,
printed by
A. C. Green
Nov. 30
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WEDNESDAY, December 1, 1773.
THE House met. All Members present as on Yesterday. The
Proceedings of Yesterday were read.
Mr. Weems appeared in the House.
Mr. White hath Leave of Absence for a few Days.
Mr. Griffith hath Leave of Absence till Monday next.
George Plater, Esq; from the Upper House, delivers to Mr.
Speaker the ingrossed Bills, No. 2, 3, 4, severally indorsed: "By
the Upper House of Assembly, November 30, 1773: The ingrossed
Bill whereof this is the Original, read and assented to.
Signed by Order, U. SCOTT, Cl. Up. Ho."
And a Petition of Alexander Somervell, setting forth many Losses
he had sustained during his Service in the late War, and praying
the House to grant him such further Allowance as they might think
proper. Which was read and granted.
ORDERED, That Mr. Somervell be allowed upon the Journal of
Accounts, the further Sum of Fifty Pounds common Current Money,
he having heretofore been allowed the Sum of Twenty Pounds.
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