186 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1761-1769.

Lib. J. R.
& U. S.

His Excellency is pleased to recommend to this Board to
consider of proper means to be taken to Support and Prosecute
the Appeal to the King and Council, agreed upon between the

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two Houses of Assembly at the last Session, in Order that a
Speedy and effectual end may be put to the Debates that have
so long subsisted betwixt them.
It is the Unanimous Opinion of the Members of this Board
that they will Contribute towards the defraying the Ex-
pences that must necessarily attend the Prosecution of the
said Appeal, and that Hugh Hamersly Esq^r be employed as
Agent on behalf of the Upper House to manage the Business
in London and His Excellency is requested to engage him for
that purpose, by the first opportunity.
Ordered that Daniel Dulany John Ridout, and Charles

Goldsborough Esq^rs and Walter Dulany Esq^r draw up a full

Representation of the State of the Disputes betwixt the two
Houses and that they Extract from the Records such ma-
terials as they shall deem proper to Support the Pretensions
of the Upper House.
His Excellency is pleased to lay the two following Extracts
of Letters from Hugh Hamersly Esq^r before this Board de-
siring their Advice thereon.

22^d March 1766.

His Lordship ever attentive to the Interests of his People
has Conceived that a Copper Coinage may be of Use in pro-
moting a Circulation of Specie, if your Excellency should be
of the same opinion and should find it agreeable to the Prov-
ince His Lordship is very willing to undertake without any
Advantage to himself the Coining a proper Quantity of Cop-
per equivalent to the English Standard to answer a requisite
Currency, or if it will be more agreeable to you to have the
Coinage at home his Lordship is equally ready to pay his
Compliment by sending over a proper Dye and if the Province
will take upon them the Charge he will endeavour to find out
Proper Persons to execute it upon the easiest Terms.
8^th Nov^r 1766. His Lordship's only View in proposing the
Copper Coinage was to promote the good of the Province,
whether this Measure will have that Tendency your Excel-
lency and the Council are the best Judges and his Lordship will
very readily conform to your Sentiments as you are apprized
of his Motives.
Whereupon the Board expresses their Sense of his Lord-
ships kind Intention and desire to serve the Province but give
it as their Opinion that as there has been a late Emission of