482 Assembly Proceedings, July 17-Aug. 10, 1716.

L. H. J.

Wee also find upon due Examination of the Writt of Election
& Indentures mentioned (To Witt) Mr Thomas Bordley and
Mr Benjn Tasker for the City of Annapolis are duely Elected

according to Law.

Cap^t Colegate from the Comittee of laws reported an
Answer to his Exncys Speech which was ordered to be read
and being approved of was ordered to be entred (Viz.)

By the Lower house of Assembly
To his Exncy John Hart Esqr Governour of Maryland
May It please your Exncy —
By what your Exncy was pleased to say at the opening of
this Session wee perceive those reports are not further to be
regarded, which at last meeting induced us to Address Your
Exncy for a prorogation to prevent what wee then feared would
have proved a fruitless charge and trouble & since Your
Exncy has not received any Instructions to the contrary of what
you were then pleased to Recomend wee shall proceed to the
Consideration & dispatch thereof, in the best manner wee are
able.

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Wee heartily Congratulate his Lordship on his Restoration
to his Government and acknowledge his Matys Bounty To us
in approveing your Exncy to be our Governour a choice (which
were it in our Power) wee our selves should make. The great
Goodnes of his Majesty (soe well known to all that know him)
The assurances Your Exncy has given us of his Lordships the
Lord Guilfords resolutions to promote the wellfare of this
Province the Character of our Lord Proprietor and the Ex-
perience of yourself give us reason To hope wee shall not
now be a less happy people than wee were when under the
more Immediate Government of that Maty who is indeed our
faiths defender
Tis with great Satisfaction wee find our Religion so well
secured under A Protestant King, Lord, and Governour,
These happy Circumstances give us a Satisfactory assurance
that the aspireing Interest of those that term us hereticks will
not be able to prevail agst us.
Your Exncys Impartiality has been convinceingly Exprest by
your unbyassed Administration, and since Justice and the
laws are your Exncy! rules wee hope wee shall never be so farr
mistaken in our duty or Interest as to neglect any part of our
Endeavours to support your Exncy and the honour and dignity
of his Lordships Government.

The Just consideration your Exncy has of the Burthen of long
and frequent Assemblys gives us hopes That the most Easy