Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1726.     459

    any season of the year and not being sure that Maryland         Lib. X.

    would come into any such Restriction they thought it not

    Adviseable to pass a Law which gave their Neighbours so

    great an Advantage over them and thus a project miscarried

    which we Judged would have proved useful to the Trade by

    preventing that unseasonable supplying the Brittish Markets

    with new Tobacco before the Old Crop can be sold of; which

    is certainly one Great Cause of keeping the price of that

    Commodity so low

       We send Inclosed a Copy of that Bill as it was prepared

    by the Upper House and if on perusall of it your Assembly

    shall think fit to Come into like measures we shall be Glad

    to receive timely advice being in hopes it will meet with no

    Obstruction in the next Session of Assembly which now

    stands Prorogued to the Seventeenth of November

       We Cannot but greatly Commend that publick Spirit and

    Zeal with which you are pursuing the Common Good of all

    those Concernd in the Tobacco Manufacture and do assure

    you on our parts of a hearty. Concurrence with you in pro

    moting that laudable design, being with great Truth and respect  p. 155

      for his Majestys especial                 Gentlemen

    Service                             Your most Obedient humble

      To the honble Charles Calvert              Servants

    Esqr Governor and Captain General of      Hugh Drysdale

    his Majestys Province of Maryland         Robert Carter

    and to the honble Council of the          James Blair

    said Province                             Phil Ludwell

    Virginia June 27th 1726                   Cole Diggs

    W Robertson Cl Concil                     Peter Beverly

                                              John Carter

                                              John Grimes

       Ordered that the Clerk of this Board draw an Order on

    Cola Samuel Young payable to John Smith Carpenter for ten

    Shillings Currency for Supporting the Floor of the Council

    Room and finding Stuff

       Which was done accordingly

       The following Answer was prepared and sent to the Honble

       The Governor of the Colony of Virginia and the Honble

    the Council of the said Colony in Answer to their Letter of

    25th of June last which was Ordered to be entered vizt

    Gentlemen                Annapolis July 25th 1726

       Its with a Great deal of Concern that we are to acquaint

    you that this Sessions of Assembly is now to come to a Con

    clusion without affording us any occasion of doing ourselves

    the Honour of Communicating to you the Agreable News of