A History of Printing in Colonial Maryland

Majesty's Service, and the more immediate Defence and | Security of the Frontier In-
habitants of this Province; and | Emitting Ten Thousand Pounds thereof in Bills of Credit;
| and Raising a Fund for Sinking and Replacing the Whole,| by an equal Assessment on all
Estates, Real and Personal, | and Lucrative offices and Employments, returned this | Day
with a Negative from the Upper House, be Printed | by the 14th Day of January next,
with the several In-| dorsements thereon, and such Part of the Proceedings as | relate
thereto; and that Two Printed Copies be delivered | to each Member of the Upper and
Lower Houses of Assem-| bly, and One to every Clerk of the several County Courts | of
this Province, to be lodged in the respective County | Clerks Offices, for the Perusal of the
Inhabitants of each | County; and forwarded in the same Manner, by the Prin-| ter, as
the Laws, Votes and Proceedings, are directed to | be. Signed per Order,| M. Macnemara,
Cl. Lo. Ho.| [Colophon:] Annapolis:| Printed by Jonas Green, Printer to the Pro-| vince.

1758-1

Fol. A-O², P¹; 29 leaves; pages 1-58; pp. 1-49: text, with heading as above; pp. 50-58: text, with this heading
in square brackets: [Extract of the Votes and Proceed-| ings of the Lower House, relating to the | foregoing Bill]|;
p. 58: colophon.

Leaf measures: 127/16 x 7 3/8 inches. Type page, p. 2: 232 x 112 mm.

Advertisement in Maryland Gazette Feb. 16,1758: "Just Published, The (so-much talk'd of) Assessment Bill,
which Passed the Lower House last Session, and was Rejected by the Upper House; with all the Proceedings re-
lating thereto: Containing in the whole, Fifty-eight pages in Folio. A few Copies are to be Sold at the Printing-
Office. Price 3/6." The consequences of the lack of co-ordination between the two houses of the Maryland Assem-
bly during this period are discussed in Schlesinger, A. M. Maryland's Share in the Last Intercolonial War, in
Maryland Historical Magazine June and Sept. 1912, pp. 119 and 243, and in Mereness, N. D. Maryland as a
Proprietary Province. N. Y. 1901, Chapter 4, Military Affairs, in both of which the supply bill here described and
others of a similar character are spoken of. The whole subject of the dispute between the Proprietary and the
Assembly is fully treated in Maryland's Attitude in the Struggle f or Canada, by J. W. Black (J. H. U. Studies in
Historical and Political Science, Tenth Series, No. 7. Baltimore. 1892.)

MDSL. MdHS. MDioc. (imp.) LC. HLS.

207. —[Charter of Maryland, and Laws from 1754 to 1758. Annapolis: Printed by Jonas
Green. 1758.] fol.

Evans, No. 8168, gives this title but does not locate a copy, nor has the compiler been able to find a copy. Is
it possible that here are a copy of the charter and separate editions of session laws from 1754 to 1758 bound to-
gether, and that this is a binder's title or a bookseller's descriptive title? If this be true it is likely that the "Char-
ter of Maryland" mentioned is that which Green printed in 1751, but of which no copy has been located.

208. —Votes and Proceedings | of the | Lower House of Assembly | of the | Province of
Maryland.| (28 Sept.-16 December, 1757.) [Colophon]: Annapolis:| Printed and Sold by
Jonas Green, Printer to the Province. MDCCLVIII.|

Sm. 410. A-Z², Aa-Cc², Dd¹; 53 leaves; pages [1]-106: text, with head-piece, heading as above and session
heading of seven lines; p. 106: colophon.

Leaf measures: 8 J x 65/8 inches. Type page, p. 2:183 x 144 mm.
MDSL. MdHS. (dup.) HU.

209. —Votes and Proceedings | of the | Lower House of Assembly | of the | Province of
Maryland.] (13 February-9 March, 1758). [Colophon:] Annapolis: Printed and Sold by
Jonas Green.| [1758].

*4to. A-F²; 12 leaves; pp. [1]-24: text, with head-piece, heading as above, session heading of six lines and run-
ning heads.

Leaf measures: 97/16 x 71/3 inches. Type page, p. 2:185x144 mm.
There were no Acts passed at this convention of Assembly.
MdHS. MDSL. LC. HU.

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