6 Assembly Proceedings, September 23-28, 1765.

	U. H. J. Liber No. 36 Sept. 35	The honble	Present. Benjamin Tasker Esqr Samuel Chamberlain Esq.r Richd Lee Esq.r Col.o Henry	Charles Goldsborough Esq.r Edw.d Lloyd Esq.r Henry Hooper Esq.r

		Mess.rs Adams and Lecompte attend with Sam.l Wilison and W.m Winder Members Elected for Somerset County, and Col.o Henry Travers for Dorchester County to see them Qualified who take the Oaths to the Government appointed to be taken by Act of Assembly repeat and Subscribe the Abjuration and Test and then withdraw. Adjourned till 3 of the Clock in the Afternoon. Eodem Die post Meridiem. This House met again according to Adjournment. Present as in the Morning and Jn.o Ridout & D.r Dulany Esq.rs Mess.rs Chaplin and Gant attend with Col.o Tho.s Cresap Member Elected for Frederick County, to see him Qualified who takes the
	p. 203	Oaths to the Government appointed to be taken by Act of Assembly repeats and Subscribes the Abjuration and Test and then withdraws. A Message from the Lower House by Mess.rs J: Goldsborough and Hanson. By the Lower House of Assembly 25.th Sept.r 1765. May it please Your Honours This House hath Resolved that the Sum of five hundred Pounds Current Money be paid by the Treasurer of the Western Shore into the Hands of Will.m Murdock, Edw.d Tilghman and Thomas Ring- gold Esq.rs (Committees appointed by this House to meet the Com- mittees from the Houses of Representatives or Burgesses of the several British Colonies on this Continent at the City of New York on the first Tuesday of October next to consult together on the present Circumstances of the Colonies and the Difficulties to which they are and must be reduced by the Operation of the late Acts of Parliament for Levying Duties and Taxes on the Colonies and to consider of a General and United Dutiful Loyal and humble Repre- sentation of their Condition to His Majesty and the Parliament, and to implore Relief) to be applyed by them in and towards the Ex- pences attendant thereon, and if they shall Expend more Money in that Service that they be repaid in the first Application of Publick Money hereafter, and if the whole shall not be expended what may remain to be returned into the Hands of the said Treasurer And this House Proposes that the said Sum of Money be so paid and applyed by way of Ordinance in which We request Your Honours Con- currence. Signed p order M : Macnemara Clk: Lo: Ho: