100 Assembly Proceedings, Oct. 28-Nov. 15, 1712.

U. H. J.

be referred to the next Session at which Time M^r Bennett
may be heard thereto
And Sent down to the House by Col Whittington
M^r Amos Garrett & twenty four more of the House of
Delegates came and presented to the Honourable President
the following Address Viz

To the honble Edward Lloyd Esq^r President of her Majestys
Council of Maryland and Commander in Chief thereof.

We the Deputys and Delegates of the s^d Province now in
Assembly convened in most dutiful and humble manner crave
leave to lay before your Honour the great Grief and Affliction
that possesseth us, in finding the Conference between her
Majesty's honble Council and the members of this House
break up without making a final End and Conclusion of the
matter to them referred in the Article for Limitting the Juris-
diction of the Provincial Court in Small Sums We cannot
impute the reason thereof to any thing but a constant reso-
lution in her Majestys honourable Council not to Concur in
any thing that seemingly toucheth her most sacred Majesty's
Royal Prerogative (which they are obliged to maintain) and
which this House never design to retrench or infringe knowing
your Honour ever since your taking upon you the Government

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here to be thereof very careful and tender. But the deplor-
able and sad Condition her Majesty's good Subjects of this

poor Province will lye under should this present Session of
Assembly end without revising the Act for relieving some
Aggrievances makes us now address your Honour for relief
therein.
We are very sensible her Majesty has restricted your Hon-
our from passing any Bills of moment unless of absolute
necessity for the Welfare Peace and tranquillity of this her
Province in the absence of a Capt General and most humbly
desire -your Honour to extend as favourable a Construction
thereto as possible you can assuring your Honour if any other
expedient could be found to quiet the minds & Satisfy the In-
habitants of this Province this House would not insist thereon
at this time And if your Honour please to grant that this or
some other Bill of the like nature may pass this Session & to
continue only to the End of the first Session of Assembly after
the Arrival of a Capt General we hope the same will not be
taken as any Infringem^t on her Majesty's royal Prerogative
Protesting to your Honour that it is not only the sense of this
House but of the Province in General That if this Act should
now expire without making any other of the like nature It
will be impossible for a great many of her Majesty's good Sub-