450 Assembly Proceedings, May 14-June 6, 1719.

L. H. J.

Baltemore &c^a and to the Right Honourable ffrancis Lord
Guilford &c his Noble Guardian

The Humble Address of the Upper and Lower Houses of
Assembly in the Province of Maryland.

May it Please your Lordships.
Wee your Lordships most obedient faithfull Tennants of
the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly now convened,
take the Liberty of representing with one Generall Voice that
Nothing could have Given us a more pleasing and Compleat

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Satisfaction at this time, than to have it confirmed to us, from
your Lordships Own hands, that you Look upon our Just
endeavours to Support the Authority of your Courts and
protect the persons of your Ministers as a Manifest evidence
of our approbation of your Lordships Dominions over us.

May it Please your Lordships
We think our Selves Very happy that we have been Able to
express such a Due Sense of our Duty, as that your Lordships
have Apprehended our proceedings to have the same Tend-
ancy that we designed them, And that you have thereupon
Declared, the Libertys and Properties of the good People of
this Province are Strengthned thereby
Such free Declarations convince us that your Lordships
would not have disassented unto the Act for the better Sup-
porting the Magistrates in the administration of Justice within
this province, had it not been out of a tender regard to the
Preservation of the rights and liberties of an English Subject,
a principle so Just and so beneficent, it fills us with pleasure
to foresee, that Justice and Clemency are like to become the
Rule of your Lordships' Government.

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But Give us leave in most humble Manner to represent,
that the particular person mentioned in that Act, did never
Apply himself to the Upper House, upon that occasion Altho
he had very little reason to Apprehend any hardship there,
from the treatment he met withall a few days before upon his
refusall to make such reasonable acknowledgment of his in-
decent and insolent behaviour to our Governour in the Court
of Chancery and elsewhere, as was required of him by your
Lordship's letter to him for that purpose. This gives a great
deal of reason to believe th^t the Subtile Insinuations & false
allegations of that person, prevailed upon those Eminent Gent
of the Law to give their opinions as they have been transmitted
to us.
We humbly Submitt to your Lordships' opinions that laws
made against persons ex post facto, if not unjust are at least,