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

L. H. J.

The following Lett^r to the Honble Nath^l Blackiston Esq^r
Ordered to be Enter'd as follows Viz:

S^r We have yours of the 20^th January Last whereby we
Perceive how much you are Attached to us. We Do Assure
you that we have not the least Cause to Suspect the Integ-
rity in Negotiating Our Affairs committed from Time to
Time to your Care. But the Goverment of this Province
being now by Royal Bounty Restored to his L^p (now of age) to
whom our Addresses may w^th out any Difficulty (in our
Opinion) be Immediately Transmitted, We Conceive Our
Selves under no Necessity any longer to Retain an Agent. Your
Salary to this Time is Ordered to be Carefully paid you. We

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Wish you Health and remain Your ffriends.
Signed p Order of the Lower House.
R: Ungle, Speaker.

Ordered that Coll Mackall and M^r Tyler goe to the Upper
House and Aquaint his Honour the Governour that nothing
of Publick Business remains before this House Unfinished.
They Return and Say They have Delivered their Message.
Coll: Holland from the Upper House Acquaints M^r Speaker
that his Hon^r the Governr Commands him & the whole
House immediately to Attend him in the Upper House and
withdrew.

Whereupon M^r Speaker with the whole House went to the
Upper House; where his Honour the Governr was pleased
to Enact the Several Engrost Bills following into Laws, by
Sealing them with the Right Honble the Lord Proprietarys
Great Seal and Endorsing them severally thus Viz.

On the Behalf of the Right Honble the Lord Proprietary
of this Province. I will this be a Law.
Cha. Calvert.

N^o I An Engrost Bill for Reviving An Act Intituled An
Act for Raising a Duty of three Pence p hh^d on all Tobacco
Exported out of this Province for the uses therein mentioned.
N^o 2. An Engrost Bill for Reviving and Continuing An
Act of Assembly Intituled An Act for Relieving the Inhab-
itants of this Province from some Aggrievances in the Prose-
cution of Suits at Law.
N^o 3. An Engrost Bill for Reviving & Continuing the Act
for Ascertaining the Gauge & Tare of Tobacco hogsheads &c.
N^o 4. An Engrost Supplementary Bill to the Act for Stay
of Executions after the tenth day of May Yearly.