PROPRIETARY ASSEMBLY OF 1734/35-1737

Charles Calvert, 5th Lord Baltimore, proprietor
Samuel Ogle, governor

FIRST SESSION: March 20, 1734/35-April 24, 1735

CONVENTION: March 19, 1735/36-April 10, 1736

SECOND SESSION: April 20-May 6, 1736

THIRD SESSION: April 26-May 28, 1737

FOURTH SESSION: August 11-16, 1737

		UPPER	HOUSE
	John Hall, president 1, Cv,	Matthew Tilghman Ward	Philip Lee	Edmund Jennings
	2 (D-4) '	John Rousby	John Rider	James Hollyday (A-Cv)
	Richard Tilghman,	Benjamin Tasker,	Michael Howard	Charles Hammond (A-Cv)
	president 3, 4 '	president 3 '	George Plater

		LOWER	HOUSE
	ST MARY'S	CALVERT	John Edmondson	John Ward (E-1)
	Thomas Waughop (D-l)	John Mackall	Tench Francis	ANNAPOLIS
	Justinian Jordan	Benjamin Mackall	SOMERSET	Robert Gordon
	Philip Key	Walter Smith	Levin Gale	Richard Francis (Ds-1,
	John Read	Adderton Skinner	Robert King	E-l)4
	James Waughop (E-Cv)	CHARLES	George Dashiell	PRINCE GEORGE'S
	KENT	Robert Hanson	William Stoughton	John Magruder
	James Harris, speaker 1, Cv,	John Courts	DORCHESTER	Edward Sprigg
	2^'	William Middleton	Thomas Woolford	Joseph Belt
	Christopher Hall	Henry Holland Hawkins	Henry Hooper	John Stoddert
	George Wilison	BALTIMORE	James Brown
	Philip Kennard	Thomas Sheredine	Henry Trippe	QUEEN ANNE'S William Hemsley (D-3)
	ANNE ARUNDEL	John Moale	CECIL	William Elliott
	Philip Hammond Vachel Denton	William Hamilton Roger Matthews	Ephraim Augustus Herman (DNS, D-l)	Edward Wright William Tilghman
	Daniel Dulany, speaker 1,	TALBOT	Joshua George	Grundy Pemberton (E-4)
	Del	Edward Needles	Joseph Wood
	Richard Warfield	Nicholas Goldsborough	Thomas Johnson, Jr.

		Committee	Service
	ELECTIONS AND PRIVILEGES	T. Francis (1, Cv, 2-4)	Kennard (1, Cv, 2-4)	BILLS OF CREDIT-PAPER
	Smith (l, Cv, 2-4)	George (1, Cv, 2-4)	Hamilton (1, Cv, 2-4)	CURRENCY (JOINT) 6
	Hanson (l, Cv, 2-4)	P. Hammond (1, Cv, 2-4)	Belt (l, Cv, 2-4)	Tasker (l, Cv, 3)
	Hemsley (1, Cv, 2-4)	R. Francis (l, Cv, 2-4)	Key (3)	Rider (1)
	King (l, Cv, 2-4)	AGGRIEVANCES AND COURTS	ACCOUNTS	Plater (Cv, 2)
	P. Hammond (1, Cv, 2-4)	OF JUSTICE	King (l, Cv, 2-4)	Gale (l, Cv, 2^0
	George (1, Cv, 2-4)	Warfield (1, Cv, 2-4)	Denton (1, Cv, 2-4)	Trippe (l, Cv, 2-4)
	LAWS	Stoughton (1, Cv, 2-4)	Gordon (1, Cv, 2-4)	Moale (l, Cv, 2-4)
	Dulany (l.Cv, 2-4)	Goldsborough (1, Cv, 2^0	Sprigg (l, Cv, 2-4)	Sprigg (l, Cv)
	Gale (l.Cv, 2-4)	Matthews (1, Cv, 2-4)	Dashiell (1, Cv, 2-4)	Hemsley (1, Cv, 2)
	Hooper (l,Cv, 2-4)	Magruder (1, Cv, 2-4)		W. Tilghman (1, Cv, 2-4)
	KeyU.Cv, 2-4)	Wright (l,Cv, 2-4)		Key (Cv, 2-4)
				Stoddert (3, 4)

¹ Hall signed himself as president of the Upper House in correspondence during the first session and the conventi
Although he is not referred to as president during the second session, he still occupied that position. During Hall's
sence in the third session, and after his subsequent death in 1737, Richard Tilghman assumed the position as sen
councilor and used the title of president of the Upper House during the fourth session. Tasker acted in Tilghma
stead during Tilghman's brief absence in the third session, and accordingly signed letters as president of the Up
House.

² Hollyday was appointed to the Council on July 15, 1735, but did not attend until February 17, 1736/37, because
had been in Europe.

³ Dulany declined to serve as speaker of the Lower House because of poor health. Harris was then chosen speak
Dulany, however, did attend the Assembly as a delegate.

⁴ The election of Francis was declared illegal on April 3, 1735. He was, however, reelected and qualified on April
1735.