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an Injury they had really done us Convinced us we were not to
expect more Civil Treatment from them for the future then
they had been pleased to Give the last Member of our House
that we sent to them
We therefore prepared a Civil and Suitable Answer to their
Message and sent it on Thursday last by Our Clerk as we
had proposed to send & they had Agreed to Receive but
when he applied for Leave to present it was refused & Obliged
to return with it. We sent it again on Friday last in the same
manner and our Clerk waited to deliver it above an hour after
he had Given notice to the Serjeant attending the Lower
House of his having a message to deliver from us but was
again refused an opportunity to deliver it and Obliged to Re-
turn with it As we are Convinced what we have done is well
warranted by Reason and Justice and by the Practice of our
neighbouring Governments We flatter ourselves with the
Satisfaction of being justified in the Opinion of your Excel-
lency and every Reasonable and Candid man but as by the
Refusall of the Lower house to receive any Messages from
the hands of Our Clerk with which method they have declared
they would be very well Content, an entire stop is put to the
Communication of the two Houses and to the publick Business
we make this humble Application to Your Excellency with a
full Assurance of your Excellencys Readiness to interpose your
Authority in such manner as may best prevent a further Need-
less Expence and Burthen to the Province.
Benj. Tasker Presidt
Which Address being read; It is the Advice of this Board
to his Excellency that he be pleased to issue his Proclamation
to prorogue the said Assembly to the second Tuesday in July
next, which Proclamation being prepared and approved of,
issued as follows
Maryland ss
By his Excellency Samuel Ogle Esqr Governor and Com-
mander in Chief in & over the Province of
Maryland
Whereas a Disagreement has arose and still subsists be-
tween the Two Houses of Assembly to the Interruption and
Hinderance of publick Business by which Means so entire a
Stop is put to the necessary Communication of the Two
Houses that the Upper House by their Address have desired
my Interposition to prevent a further needless Burthen and
Expence to the Province; I have therefore thought fit with the
Advice of his Lordships Council of State to prorogue this
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