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Irregularities or Injustice and therefore heartily wish you
would not omit to do what is so absolutely necessary for the
Service of the Country which if you should we know not whom
to write to that can or will be any Ways serviceable to us.
Signed p Order W. Bladen Cl. Co.

Which being read Ordered it be answered as followeth

By the House of Delegates November 4^th 1710

This House have considered your Message this Morning
relating to having an Agent &^ca but since no Act has passed
this Session wherein it can be prejudicial to Trade we can't
think the Merchants will make any Interest against their being
assented to and as for any Person in this Country doing it
against the Act for relieving Aggrievances since your Honours
don't think fit to let that Bill pass but for so short a Time as
two Years, we presume it will expire before we can have any
Notice of it's Assent and then our Money will be thrown away
to no Purpose so can't concur with your Request to employ
an Agent Signed p Order Richard Dallam Cl. Ho. Del.

Ingrossed Bill for Sale of Talbot County old Court House
Read and indorsed 4^th Nov. 1710 Read and assented to by the
House of Delegates.
Signed p Order Rich^d Dallam Cl. Ho. Del.

The Message and Bill sent to the Council by M^r Worthing-
ton M^r Crabb, M^r Greenfield and M^r Paca. They return and
say they delivered the same
The Honble Col^{o
Greenfield and Mr Hall enter the House
and deliver Mr Speaker the following Message}

By the Council in Assembly November 4^th 1710

Gentl. We are sorry you cannot concur with our Request
to employ an Agent and find by your Indifferency in support-
ing the Law for relieving Aggrievances you do not set so great
a Value thereon as we imagined you did and the Consequence
of that Law seems to deserve, or at least you have little Re-
gard to what Censure may fall upon us for passing such an
Act (tho' in itself just and reasonable and might be approved
if backt by some discreet Person at Home) yet clashes with
such Interests whose Study and Endeavours we may expect
will not fail to oppose and defeat it
Signed p Order W Bladen Cl. Co.

L. H. J.
Lib. 41.