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Your Laws will ever be the rule and measure of my
Authority and I shall not faile to putt these Laws in Execution
agt such persons who shall Contumaciously dare to offend agt
them or have them in any degree of Contempt
Your prosperity shall be my Constant application to protect
& to preserve it from any attempts may be made by Artful
and designeing men whether I have the Happiness to remain
among you or it be the pleasure of providence by the means
of yours and my Enemies to remove me from this Station I
shall Stedfastly continue to the outmost of my power to be
a sincere friend to the Protestant interest of Maryland.
Jo. Hart
On a motion made that whereas Majr Roger Woolford in
Consideration of the sume of 16£ paid him in the publick
leavy undertook to raise a fflagg Staff near the Stadt house
in the City of Annapolis with Sufficient Braces and a Cedar
fframe and has not as yet pformed the same, Ordered that
notice be given him to Compleat wt he so undertook as afd
by the last day of October next or that in failure thereof he
appeare before the Barr of this house the first week of the
next Sessions of Assembly whensoever to be held to shew
Cause why he doeth not Comply with his said promise.
Col Holland from the Upper house delivers Mr Speaker the
following viz.
The Answer of Charles Carroll to the respective Queres put
to him this 19th day of July 1716 by the Right Honble the
Lord Propry of Maryland's Governour and Upper house of
Assembly.
Q Ist Whether he acquainted their Lordships the Rt Honble
the Lord Proprietary and his Guardian of the Acts of parlia-
ment in England made in the 15th year of King Charles the
2d Entituled an Act for the Encouragement of trade and an
act made in the 7th and 8th years of King William Entituled
an Act for preventing ffrauds and regulateing abuses in the
Plantation trade as well as the Act made in the 12th year of
King Charles the 2d for Incourageing and Increaseing of
shipping before he obtained the said Comission
Answer That he said nothing to their Lordships about the
acts of the 12th and 15th of King Charles the second in the
Quere specified, being very well Satisfied that there was noth-
ing in them that would hinder the said Lord Propry as heredi-
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