546 Assembly Proceedings; September 23-October 26, 1723.

U. H. J.

Slaves, Assented to by the Lower House and Subscribed
(viz.)

October the 16^th 1723
Read and Assented to by the Lower House of Assembly and
Sign'd p Order M: Jenifer Cl Lo: Ho :

Which Bill being Read is likewise Assented to by this
House and thus Subscribed Viz.
October the 16^th 1723
Read and Assented to by the Upper House of Assembly &
Sign'd p Order Sam^l Skippon Cl Up. Ho.

A Message from the Lower House by Captain King and

Captain Harrison viz..

By the Lower House of Assembly 8^br the 16^th 1723
May it Please Yo^r Hono^rs
The Provincial Court wanting the Statutes at Large and
other necessary Books for their use, we desire yo^r Hon^rs Con-
currence with us in directing the Honble Robert Ungle Esq^r

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Treasurer of the Eastern Shore to send for all the Statutes
at Large, Hale's Pleas of the Crown of the Last Edition,
Hawkins's Pleas of the Crown, Daltons Justice of the last
Edition and Nelson's Justice for that purpose, with Letters
Stampt on the Outside of each Booke For the Use of the
Province of Maryland

Sign'd p Order M. Jenifer Cl. Lo: Ho.

The House took into Consideration the Message from the
Lower House by John Beale Esq^r and five more Yesterday,
and prepared the following answer thereto viz.

By the Upper House of Assembly Oct^r the 16^th 1723
Gentlemen.
By your Message of the 15^th Instant by John Beale Esq^r
and five more, we find ourselves under a necessity of remind-
ing, you that the Country has since the year 1670/1 and in
all Probability many years before Supported the Council of
State in this Province by making such Allowances from Time
to Time as might Defray their Expence, when upon publick
Service, either by raising an Impost for that purpose or by
Assessment upon the Inhabitants by Impost untill the King

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assumed this Governm^t then the Legislature thought fit to
employ that Impost to other uses & assess the Inhabitants
and so Continued during the Government of the Crown: when