580 Assembly Proceedings, April 5-22, 1720.

L H. J.

Excy has been pleased to Recommend to us in your Speech
to both houses at the opening of this Session of Assembly,
which So much respects the good Government and Welfare of
his Majestys good Subjects here which we have very much at
Heart and shall apply our Selves with our utmost Care and
Deligence to the Consideration of,
And particularly The Act Entituled An Act ascertaining
the Gauge and Tare of Tobacco Hogsheads &c^a which Con-
tains so many things Essential to the Honour and Interest of
his Lordship and the Ease and Prosperity of this Province
shall be duly Considered by us in all its branches, and we shall
Readily Joyn in Concurrence with your Excellency and the

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Upper house in such Measures as Shall be thought most proper
and Essential for the Secureing and Continueing so great a
good (as this by Experience is found to have been) from the
time of the Expiration thereof as it now Stands till the end of
the first Sessions of Assembly that Shall happen after the
Twenty ninth day of September next.
And here we Cannot pass this head without again returning
our hearty Thanks to your Excellency for your care and Dili-
gence in Inquireing into and makeing your Just Observations
from the wrongs done the late Lord Proprietor in the Collect-
ing and from the Manifold Inconveniencies and Deficulties
the Tenants then Laboured under in paying the Quitt Rents
and for the redress of both, the Expedient you proposed of
adding Six pence to the eighteen Pence p hh^d formerly given
in full Sattisffaction for the whole quit rents and allienation
fines, which has proved equally so advantageous to his Lord-
shipp and Easie to the Inhabitants, and tho it seems to be
attended with Some Difficulty for us to make a just Com-
parison between the value of the Rents that have been Col-
lected before and The Sums that have been paid his Lordships
agent on that Account, Since the Comencement of the above
Mentioned Act yet we doubt not but that his Lordship whose
Interest herein is so much Concerned and who has a better
Oppertunity for so doing than we have, will soon discover the
Difference and the Great advantage accruing to him from the
Latter.
When we Consider and reflect upon the many attacks and
unnaturall Rebellions made and raised in great Britain by
papists and their Adherents as Dangerous to the full if not a
more dangerous Enemy than themselves against the person
and Government of his most Sacred Majesty George (whom
God Long preserve) wee the less wonder at the unwearied
and Restless Attempts of the papists and their adherents to
disquiet and render your Excellency uneasie in your Adminis-