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Petitions of Leonard Field, Thomas Caywood, John Williams, Basil
Patterson Sylvester Strange Moses White, Henry Fletcher and
Matthew Boroughs, Prisoners in Saint Mary's County Goal; the
Petitions of Thomas Glover, and Marshall Griffith, Prisoners in
Calvert County Goal, the Petition of Thomas Barnes a Prisoner in
Harford County Goal, the Petitions of Edward Davis, Isaac Green,

U. H. J.
Liber 37
Mar. 31

and Charles Fullerton, Prisoners in Somerset County Goal; and the
Petitions of James Barrance, William Grahame, John Thomas, and
Unicy Williams, Prisoners in Dorchester County Goal — These Peti-
tions were severally Endorsed, and sent to the Lower House by
John Ridout Esq

Read and referred to the Consideration of the Lower House of
Assembly, the Petition of sundry Inhabitants living in and near the
Town of Bladensburgh in Prince Georges County, the Petition of
sundry Inhabitants of Somerset and Worcester Counties for a Sum
of Money to defray the Expence of cutting a Canal near the Mouth
of Pocomoke — the Petition of Jeremiah Crabb of Prince Georges
County; and also the Petition of Benjamin Canada Stoddert. These
Petitions were severally Endorsed and sent to the Lower House by
John Ridout Esq

Read and referred to the Consideration of the Lower House of
Assembly the following Application from Charles Wilson Peale Viz^t

To his Excellency Robert Eden Esq.,^r Governor of the Province
of Maryland and to the Honourable the Upper and Lower Houses
of Assembly.

Charles Wilson Peale of the City of Annapolis Limner, impressed
with a strong sense of Duty to his native Province projected when
in London and since hath compleated the portrait of the Earl of
Chatham on Canvass at full length, with a view humbly to offer the
same to his Country, as a tribute of Gratitude, And presumes to
entreat a favourable acceptance of that Portrait, to be placed in the
State House or such other conspicuous place as shall be thought
most fit and Convenient. Thus eminently to dispose of the first
Fruit of his Science will much redound to his Reputation and confer
an Honour which he shall forever acknowledge with Gratitude and
Thanks — Sent to the Lower House by John Ridout Esq.^r

March 28:^th 1774.
Adjourned until three of the Clock in the Afternoon

Eodem Die Post Meridiem
The House met again according to Adjournment
Present as in the Morning
Adjourned until to Morrow Morning Ten of the Clock

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