The Upper House. 487

M^r Benjⁿ Mackall and M^r John Caldwell from the Lower
House deliver his Excy the following Message

By the Lower House of Assembly
Aprill the 6^th 1720

U. H.J.

May It please your Excy and Hon^rs
This house in Ord^r to dispatch Business as much as in them
lyes have Entred a Resolve to Sitt from Eight of the Clock till
Eleven in the forenoon and from one till five of the Clock in
the Afternoon and Desire to Know whether the times ap-
pointed be agreeable to your Excy and Hon^re
Signed p order M Jenifer Cl Lo Ho.

Whereupon It's Resolved by his Excellency and this House
that the following message be prepared and Sent Viz.

By his Excy and the Upper House of Assembly
Aprill the 6^th 1720

We approve of your Proposalls as to your times of Sitting.
Signed p Order John Beale Cl Up. Ho,

This House Adjourns untill to morrow Morning Eight a
Clock
Thursday morning April 7^th 1720
The House meet according to Adjournment
Present

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Tho^s Brooke Esq^r
Col Holland
Col Young
Col Addison

Col Tilghman
Col Ward
and
Esq^r Lowe

The Petition of Benj Duvall is thus Endorsed
By the Upper House of Assembly

Aprill the 7^th 1720
The within Petition is referrd to the Lower House to Con-
sider thereof
Signed p Order John Beale Cl Up Ho.

The foregoing Petition with the Answer to the Message
from the Lower House about Sitting is sent to the Lower
House by Col Addison who returns and Says he delivered the
message

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