Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland, July, 1727 August, 1729

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Excerpt from Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland, July, 1727 August, 1729: With an Appendix of Statutes Previously Unpublished Enacted 1714-1726The method of publication has been in general the same as in the past. A new typography places a little more matter upon a page without making it difficult to read. The days of the session have been added as side notes for greater clearness. The topical index has been constructed so as to show the session in which the various subjects were discussed, and the legislative his tory of every act. Messages and other documents occurring in the Proceed ings of either house are printed only once, in the Upper House Journal, a ref erence thereto being made in the Lower House Journal at the proper place. This enables much more material to be placed in a volume and will not seri ously inconvenience scholars.In general, we possess good manuscripts for this period. The Lower House Journal for 1727 is an exception. Of it we possess two fragments, the one contains the first and last few pages of the Proceedings, the other lacks the pages altogether and, at some distant period, was used as a base for a ¿ower pot, the grains Of earth from it still adhering to the paper in some places. The paper of most of the upper half of the manuscript has, in con sequence, rotted away and entirely disappeared, so that the manuscript is quite fragmentary.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.