A History of Printing in Colonial'Maryland

301. [The Maryland Almanack, (for the Year 1771.) Containing Several instructive and
entertaining Pieces, both in Prose and Verse. Annapolis: Printed by Anne Catharine
Green. 1770.]

No copy recorded. Advertised in Maryland Gazette Nov. 8, 1770, as "Just Published," at "Eight Coppers
Single, or Five Shillings per Dozen."

302. The | Maryland Gazette.] (Jan. 4-Dec. 27, 1770, Nos. 1269 to 1320; beginning with
Aug. 23, change in heading from XXVth to XXVIth Year.) [Colophon as in year 1768,
except that in Nos. 1302-1320, issued after death of William Green in August, his name was
dropped from the colophon.]

15 3/4 ^x 9 3/4 inches; Nos. 1279-1286 measure 14 1/4 x 9 3/8 inches; Nos. 1287-1290 measure 12 x 7 1/4 inches; 2 leaves
each number, except Nos. 1271-1272,1274,1276,1278 and 1320 which have one each; three columns.

No. 1316 has "Supplement" of 4 leaves of Assembly Proceedings. No. 1278 has colophon: Annapolis: Printed
by Anne Catharine and William Green. | Each of the numbers 1287-1290 has two columns only, and "Supplement"
of one leaf; their colophon reads: Annapolis: Printed by Anne Catharine and W. Green.|

See Plate Xb for title arrangement.

MDSL. (complete). For location of scattered issues, see Brigham, American Newspapers.

1771

303. [COCKBURN, ROBERT. Poor Robert Improved: Being an Almanack and Ephemeris
For the Year of our Lord 1772. By Robert Cockburn, Teacher of the Mathematicks. An-
napolis: Printed by Anne Catharine Green. 1771.]

No copy recorded. Advertised in the Maryland Gazette for Nov. 7,1771, as "Just Published."

304. MARYLAND, PROVINCE OF. A | Bill,| entitled,| An Act to redress the Evils arising from
the Variation of the | Compass in surveying Lands.| [Annapolis: Printed by Anne Catha-
rine Green. 1771.]

Fol. 2 leaves without pagination; pages [1-4]; pp. [1-3]: text, with heading as above.

Leaf measures: 12 13/16 x 8 3/16 inches. Type page, p. [2]: 270 x 141 mm.

On Oct. 31, 1770, (V. & P. Third Session p. 301) a bill (title as above) was read a second time and referred
for consideration on the second Tuesday of the next session. It was ordered also "That the Said Bill be immedi-
ately published in the Maryland Gazette, and that it be likewise printed in Hand Bills, and Four Copies thereof
delivered to each Member of the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly." The V. & P. of the Third Session were
not published until after the conclusion of the Fourth Session, which followed it immediately, when the V. & P.
of both Sessions were issued together with four copies of the bill above described stitched to the book. The copy
in possession of J. Hall Pleasants, M. D. of Baltimore, is complete as issued, containing the V. & P. of both Ses-
sions with the four copies of the bill attached, the only examples of the bill known to the compiler. This bill did
not become law. It had been introduced in an earlier session, (see Maryland Gazette for Jan. 4, 1770, where it is
published for the first time). It was printed in the Maryland Gazette also for Dec. 13, 1770.

Pleasants.

305. —By the Lower House of Assembly, Nov. 30, 1771.| Ordered, that the Proceedings
upon the Conference, the Address to | the Governor upon the Subject of his Proclamation,
the Resolves there-] with sent, and the Governor's Answer thereto, be immediately printed
| separate from the Journal, and Four distinct Copies sent, in the same | Manner as pub-
lick Letters are sent, to each Person who is entitled to | receive the Votes and Proceedings
of this House.] Signed by Order,] John Duckett, Cl. Lo. Ho.| [Annapolis: Printed by Anne
Catharine Green. 1771.]

Fol. A-G², H¹; 15 leaves; pages [1]-30: text of documents as named in title, with heading as above.

Leaf measures: 12 7/8 x 8 1/4 inches. Type page, p. 3: 258 x 141 mm.

MDioc. LC.

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