The Lower House. 413

By the House of Delegates November 27^th 1709

May it please your Honours
We have considered your Honours Speech and shall
diligently apply ourselves to raising a Supply to defray the
publick Charge of this present year We shall take it well all
Letters lately received be laid before us that we may know
her Majesty's Pleasure and Commands But as to the Matter
of Licenses the Ordinary-Keepers and the Tobacco paid for
them we have traced the Original and Progress thereof, and
neither find it a certain Duty to be always continued as such use-
ful Subject nor necessarily affixt to the Secretary's Office but only
sometimes by Accident permitted to those were Secretary's
And further we conceive it a Thing so contrary to Right and
Reason and the Equality and Indifference of Justice and so
nauseous and odious to Subjects to have a Tax imposed on one
Sort of Subjects to be applied to the enriching of one only
Subject who not so much as sets Pen to Paper for it, nor has
more than a bare Colour of Pretence, that we are sorry her
Majesty by the unwearied Sollicitations of Sir Tho^s Lawrence
require any Thing of us to which we cannot assent
We have prepared an Address about this and are desirous
your Honours to join
We thank your Honours for so readily and diligently taking
on you the Admn of Governm^t according to her Majesty's
Royal Commission and we shall always be ready to support
you in it and join with you in what is our Duty that her Majes-
ty's Service and Welfare of the Province may not be impaired
in the Absence of a Captain General and to shew our Dutifulness
to her Majesty and good Affection to your Honours
Signed p Order W Taylard Cl. Ho. Del.

Which being read and approved of by the House was sent
up to the Council by M^r Philemon Hemsley, M^r Ward, Capt.
John West, M^r Robert Tyler, M^r Lee and M^r Walter Storey.
They return and say they delivered the same
Col^{o
William Holland, Colo
Thomas Ennalls, Colo
Charles
Greenberry, and Colo
William Whittington enters the House
and delivers Mr Speaker a Message together with several
Papers relating to Sr Thomas Lawrence. Which was read in
the House and delivered to the Committee of Laws to inspect
the same and make Answer thereto ready to be presented the
House for their Approbation with a Message entered the 5th
November
Resolved That Mr Thomas Bordley is duly and legally
elected and qualified to serve for the City of Annapolis in this
Assembly.}

L. H. J.

Lib 41.

D. 216