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Description
MD Upper House of Assembly heard petition for tax relief.
Copied from MD Archives web site: http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/megafile/msa/speccol/sc2900/sc2908/0 00001/000056/html/am56--55.html


Publisher
Archives of MD, vol. 56, pp. 55-56


Source Text

                             Wednesday Morning 20th Decem.r 1758 Dec. 20
                      This House met again according to Adjournment
                                   Present as yesterday
                      [...]
                      Adjourned till 3 of the Clock in the afternoon

                                   Eo. Die post Meridiem
                      This House met again according to Adjournment
                                  Present as in the Morning
                      Read the petitions of William Dames, Joseph Clift, James Cham
                     bers, Emanuel Pride, John Eccles, and John Hollingsworth of Queen
                     County John Brown and Richard Beard of Ann Arundell County,
                        John Randall William Fell, Edward Cooley of Baltimore County
                        Basil Beckwith, John Gittings Nathaniel Wickham &
                        Turnbell of Frederick County praying Relief