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this house do declare that the said Morecroft hath done nothing
but what he might lawfully do and that therefore he be dis-
missed with Costs and Charges by him sustained by reason of
this pretended Impeachment

Ordered that Robert Morris pay to the Clerk of the Upper
House for Fees the sum of fourteen hundred twenty two
pounds of Tob? Then was appointed by the Governour
Philip Calvert Esq^r Thos. Trueman Henry Coursey and William
Calvert Committees to meet with the Committee of the Lower
House in prosecution of the former Order

The House Adjourned till Thursday nine of
the Clock

Wednesday April 21^st 1669

At a Committee of both Houses appointed by both houses
to be held this day Mett —

The honble Philip Calvert Esq^e Henry Coursey
Thomas Trueman & William Calvert Esq^e

Col Nathaniel Utye Cap^t W^m Burgess Richard Preston
Samuel Withers Robert Slye Thomas Taylor
Joseph Weekes Rich^d Boughton Of the Lower House

Thursday Nine of the Clock The House mett

The Committee of this House reported to the House their
Proceedings to the Committee of the Lower House

April the 21^st 1669

U. H.
Journal
1659-98

The Answer of the Committee of the Upper
House of Assembly to a paper preferred into the
said House by the Speaker and whole Lower
House of Assembly April 20^th and now again
brought to this Committee by a Committee of
the Lower House Entituled The publick Griev-
ances &c.

The first Article Entituled as above Aggrievance is thus
penned viz.
That there is no Person authorised by the Lord Proprietary
to confirm our Laws
To which We answer that since the Lord Proprietary hath
but a subordinate power in making Laws he is tyed to the
Rules given him by his Majesty in his pattent that if he should
by himself or any other person impowered by him Consent to

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