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

Col Holland Col Tilghman
Esq^r Hall Col Ward & Esq^r Bowles
Esq^r Lloyd Esq^r Bordley

U. H. J.

The following Message prepared Considered of & Agreed
upon Viz.
By the Upp^r house of Assembly

August the 5^th 1721
Gent. Whatever motives have Induced your house to lay
aside our Agent we think it Highly reasonable that you should
have Communicated the same to us, who as ffrankly declare
our Surprize that you should now depreciate the Services of
a Gentleman w^ch by the Journalls of both Houses Appears
to have been not only very agreeable but very advantagious
to this Province We must take the Liberty further to remind
you of the Extraordinaryness of your Proceedure in Com-
puteing the Sume of the Expence without putting any price
upon the Services done We need not Enter into a particular
detail thereof, the resolves of your own house will Clear up
that point We are no less Surprized that you should Come
to so hastey a Resolution at a time that the New York Papers
Communicated to you this Sessions makes it so necessary to
have a Gentl of his known Integrity & Interest at Court to
negotiate an Affaire of such Consequence the very reason
for which he was at first Appointed And w^ch in our opinion
is not limited to the Sum required at Present but may Subject
us to further Demands of the like nature
These things Considered we once more move the Continu-
ance of Col Blakiston in his Agency & Desire your Concur-
rence therein
Signed p Ord^r John Beale Cl Upper house

Sent by Col Ward and Esq^r Bordley to the Lower house
who return & Say they Delivered the same
The following Message prepared and Considered of and
Agreed Upon.

P. 103

By the Upper house of Assembly
August the 5^th 1721
Gent. We observe in your Message of the 4^th Instant by
Col Woolford & Col Herman that you Acquaint us you have

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