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May it please your Excellency,
UPON Consideration of your Excellency's Message of the
Eighth Instant, and the Address of the Clergy communicated
therewith, we proceeded to make a competent Provision for them,
by a Bill which we have sent to the Upper House.
Which was read and assented to, and signed by Order of the
House by the Honourable Speaker.
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
Dec. 16
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FRIDAY, December 17, 1773.
THE House met. All Members present as on Yesterday, except
Mr. Funk. The Proceedings of Yesterday were read.
His Excellency communicates to Mr. Speaker the following Mes-
sage.
Gentlemen of the Lower House of Assembly,
I AM informed by the Commissioners for emitting Bills of Credit,
that the Clerks of St. Mary's, Somerset, Dorchester, and Caecil
Counties, have returned since your Address of the 7th Inst. Ac-
counts of the Sums received by the Sheriffs of those Counties at
last August Court, for Ordinary Licences; and I have given Direc-
tions for ordering the Clerks of Worcester and Calvert Counties,
to return forthwith to the Commissioners, Accounts of the Sums
received by the Sheriffs at the last August Court for Ordinary Li-
cences in their respective Counties.
I have directed that the several Sheriffs who have not complied
with the Act of Assembly, made and passed at a Session of Assembly,
begun and held at the City of Annapolis on Wednesday the Second
Day of October, in the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred and
Seventy one, be immediately required to pay up to the Commission-
ers in pursuance of this Act, the Ordinary Licence Fines received
for the Use of the Public, and will direct the Attorney General to
put in Suit the Bonds of such Sheriffs as shall not pay up the Sums
due from them, in such Time as that there may be no Delay in pur-
suing the Measures for compelling Payment.
I shall also direct the Attorney General to put in Suit the Office
Bond of Christopher Wilkinson, deceased, for his Default in not
paying up the Half Years Land Tax, by him received, in the Year
1763, if his Representative or Sureties do not forthwith make Pay-
ment
Annapolis, 17th December, 1773. ROBERT EDEN.
Which was read and ordered to lie on the Table.
The Bill, entitled, An Act for the Speedy Publication of the Laws
of this Province, and for the Encouragement of Anne Catharine
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