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Post Meridiem
The House meet according to Adjournment
Present
His Honour Charles Calvert Esq^r Governour

U. H. J.

Col W^m Holland
Col Tho^sAddison
Col Rich Tilghman
Col Matt Tilghman Ward

Tho^s Bordley Esq^r
and
James Bowles Esq^r

This House takes this oppertunity of Desiring Coll^o Holland
to present to his Honour the Gov^r their ans^r to his Speech
Which answer he accordingly psents & is as follows

By the Upper house of Assembly

July the 21^st 1721
May It please Your Honour
It is with great Pleasure We observe your Honour Satis-
fied with our Proceeding's the Last Sessions We then En-
deavoured to Discharge our respective duties faithfully and
meet your Honour now under the same resolutions which
from your Approbation of what is past We have Sufficient
reason to believe will not faile of your Honours Favourable

Acceptance.
Your Honour Supporting those that are truly Affected to
his most Sacred Majesty the Protestant Interest & the Pros-
perity of this Province is a most Agreeable Argument of
your good Inclinations Which together with the Preferring
in your Esteem Men of Worth and Sobriety Who addhere to
our Established Church to such as are of a more loose and
Dissolute Conversation the due Encouragement of Virtue
and Resentment of Immorality and Prophanesse will be the
most pleasing return we can receive for our Utmost En-
deavours to Oblige you and whenever it Shall please our
Lord Prop^ry to Hon^r us with his Presence we doubt not his
being fully Satisfied of the Greatfull Sence we have of his
Kind Commands which you are Pleased to Communicate
to us.
We shall readily Joyn with the Lower house in reviving
the Revenue Laws & such others as are necessary for the
Comon Good and shall Apply ourselves to the Consideration
of all such Papers as your Honour shall think fitt to Communi-

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cate to us.
We Cannot but Esteeme your Hon^rs Recommending to us
the Support of our now Sinking Trade as a most Convincing
Proof of your Concern for our Welfare it being Evident you

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