172 Assembly Proceedings, July 18-August 5, 1721.

U.H.J.

Hundred and Twenty one being read is ordered to be thus

Endorst Viz.
By the Up^r house of Assembly

Aug^t the 4^th 1721
This bill being read will pass
Signed p Ord^r Joh Beale Cl Up ho.

Sent to the lower house by Coll. Addison who returnes and
says he Delivered the same
The following Message Considered and Agreed on Viz.

By the Upper House of Assembly
Aug^t the 4^th 1721
Gentlemen. Forasmuch as his Lordship in his Speech to
both houses hath been pleased to Demonstrate the Great
regard he hath to the request of, as well as Great Considera-
tion in the prudence of his Lower house of Assembly by Give-
ing you an Oppertunity at your own Choyce to make the
Proper addition to his Officers frees, Rather than by Interpos-
ing his own Authority in the Case by Dissenting to an Act
which will necessarily subject the Good People of this Prov-
ince to the unlimitted Demands of his Officers now seeing
that in the whole Course of the proceedings of this Sessions
you have not thought fitt to take any notice of that part of

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his Lordships Speech in relation to that Act for limitting
Officers fees,
We therefore recommend it to your serious Considerations
that the makeing the Additions proposed according to the
former Acts may be much more for the Interest of this Prov-
ince than by Slighting his Lordships kind Condescention to
bring on a Dissent to that Act as seems hinted to us.
Signed p Order Joh Beale Cl. Up. Ho.

Sent to the lower house by Esq^r Bowles who returns & says
he Delivered the same
The following Message Considered & Agreed upon Viz.

By the Upper house of Assembly

Aug^t the 4^th 1721
Gentlemen. We find by your Message of the Twenty
Eighth of July amongst Other things therein that your house
Came to a resolve to bring in a bill to Disable any Person
from keeping Publick houses in the City of Annapolis and
Oxford unless they build brick Chimneys in the space of
Eighteen months as well as at Upper Malbrough but we find