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Naturalisation of such Foreign Protestants as shall serve for the
time therein mentioned on board such Ships as shall be fitted out
for the said Fishery," be read; and it was read accordingly.
The House referred the further Consideration of the Subject till
the Afternoon.
The House adjourns till 3 o'Clock.
POST MERIDIEM.
The House met.
The House resumed the Consideration of the Subject relative to
Mr. Hagar, and after considering the several Statutes and the Acts
of Assembly aforesaid, Mr. Hagar was ordered to withdraw; and
Mr. Speaker, by the Direction of the House, put the following
Question, That Jonathan Hagar, returned as a Representative for
Frederick County, not being a natural born Subject, nor descended
from one, but naturalized in 1747, agreeable to the Stat. 18. Geo. 2.
being a Resident of this Province ever since, and having a Freehold
of fifty acres of Land be eligible? RESOLVED in the Negative; Mr.
Hagar was called in, and, Mr. Speaker, by Order of the House,
informed him that he was dismissed from any further Attendance on
this House as a Member thereof.
ORDERED, That Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrant to the Secretary
of this Province requiring him to issue a new Writ of Election to
the Sheriff of Frederick County to elect a Delegate to serve in this
present General Assembly in the Room of Mr. Jonathan Hagar,
whose Seat is declared vacant.
The House being informed by the Honourable Speaker, that the
Reverend Mr. Love had offered to read Prayers every Morning in
the House during this Session for the usual Allowance, Mr. Chase
is desired to informed Mr. Love, that this House cheerfully accept
his offer.
The Order of the Day being read, the House took into Considera-
tion the several letters and other Papers communicated to this House
by the Honourable Speaker, and addressed to him by the Honour-
able the Speakers of the several Colonies of Virginia, Massachusetts
Bay, Connecticut, and Rhode Island; and RESOLVED unanimously,
That this House most cordially accept the Invitation to a mutual
Correspondence and Intercourse with our Sister Colonies.
RESOLVED, unanimously, That a standing Committee of Corre-
spondence and Enquiry be appointed to consist of Eleven Persons,
to wit. The Honourable Matthew Tilghman, Esq; Speaker, John
Hall, Thomas Johnson, William Paca, Samuel Chase, Edward Lloyd,
Matthias Hammond, Josias Beall, James Lloyd Chamberlaine, Brice
Thomas Beale Worthington, and Joseph Sim, Esquires, any Six of
whom to be a Committee; whose Business it shall be to obtain the
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Votes and
Proceedings
of the Lower
House,
printed by
A. C. Green
Oct. 15
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