80 Assembly Proceedings, April 26-June 3,1715.

U. H. J.

Mr Tyler and nine more brought from the Delegates the
following message Viz

By the House of Delegates
June the 1st 1715

May it please your Excellency
We heartily condole the Loss of our late Lord Proprietary

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not only as a generous Land Lord, but a generous Friend to
the Province
We likewise Congratulate his present Lordship on the
Descent of this Proprietorship upon him To whom we sin-
cerely Wish a long and happy Enjoymt of it And assure your
Excellency It is no small Satisfaction to us to find that on his
late Lordship's decease He is succeeded by a protestant Son
of that great Character Your Excellency has always given
him
Nor can we be unmindful of your Excellency's Care and
favour towards us in so Speedily communicating to us the
opportunity your Excellency has of making us Easy in the
Affair of our Land Rents which is of so great Concern to his
Lordship & this Province for which we return your Excellency
our most hearty Thanks. And since your Excellcy has been
pleased to intimate His Lordship does not design to Stand to
the Agreemt formerly made with his Ancestors in that Respect
as the Gauge of Tobo Hhds now stands
We humbly propose to lay an Impost of 18d Sterl p hhd
being of the Gauge of 32 Inches in the head within the Croze
not Exceeding 37 Inches in the Bulge and 48 Inches in the
Length of the Stave for his Majesty towards the defraying the
publick Charge of this Province. Which we resolve to apply
to his Lordships use if his Lordship will be pleased to accept
thereof as an Equivalent for taking his Land Rents & Fines
for Alienations within this Province (as his noble Father did)
in tob^o at 2d Sterl p pound during his natural Life And hum-

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bly pray your Excellency will be pleased to assist us in recom-
mending the same to his Lordship
We perswade ourselves that his Lordship believes It is his
Interest to consult the welfare of this province as his noble
Ancestors did
And towards the Support of the Government we are also
willing to make an Advance of 3d Sterl p hhd on Every hhd
Exported of the afd Gauge in Consideration of Its being so
Enlarged as a just & reasonable Compensation therefore And
without which the Revenue would be very much diminished
and impaired, under the same Proviso, as in the former Law