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Coll^o Gale and M^r Chamberlain are Ordered to go and Acquaint
the Governour this House hath prepared an Address to his Excel-
lencys Speech, And Desireth to know when and where he will receive
the same, They return and Acquaint M^r Speaker with the Delivery
of their Message; And that the Governour would be ready to receive
the same at his House Immediately Coll^o Greenfeild and twelve more
are Ordered to Attend his Excellency with the Address, They return
and Acquaint M^r Speaker that they Delivered the same

L. H. J.

The House Adjourns untill to Morrow Morning at Eight of the
Clock.

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Saturday Morning August the 21^st 1731

The House met according to Adjournment, The Members were
Called and all Present as Yesterday in the Afternoon, The proceed-
ings of yesterday were read.
Edmund Jennings Esq^r from the Committee of Laws Delivered
M^r Speaker a bill Entituled an Act to make and Emit thirty Six
thousand pounds Current Money of Maryland in Bills of Credit and
for Easing the Inhabitants of this Province in the payment of Debts
and to raise a fund to Sink the said bills of credit, Which bill was read
the first time and Ordered to Lye on the Table.
The Bill Entituled an Act for reviving an Act for the Tryal of all
Matters of fact in the Several Countys Within this Province was read
the second time and on the Question put passed and was sent to the
Upper House by Coll^o Greenfeild & Eleven more.
They return and Acquaint M^r Speaker they Delivered the Same.
The Petition of Richard Roper in Ann Arundell County Gaol pray-
ing to be releived there from was read & Granted.
The House Adjourns untill Two of the Clock in the Afternoon.

Saturday Afternoon Aug^t 21^st 1731.

The House met according to Adjournment, The Members were
Called and all Present as in the Morning.
Coll^o John Rider from the Upper House Delivered to M^r Speaker
The Petition of the Rector Vestrymen and Church Wardens and other
of the Inhabitants of S^t Pauls parish in Prince Georges County pray-
ing leave to bring in a Bill to Assess the Taxable Inhabitants with
ten pounds of Tobacco p Poll untill they build a Substantial Church
Indorsed thus.

By the Upper House of Assembly 21^st August 1731

Read and referred to the Consideration of the Lower House of
Assembly
Signed p Order. J Ross Cl. Up. Ho.

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