584 Assembly Proceedings, September 23-October 26, 1 723.

U. H. J.

Accommodate the Differences between yours and the Lower
House, in the Best manner possible, because I design to put
an End to the Session this Evening. I hope Gent you will
not Construe this, that I any ways direct you what to do,
because it is no part of my Duty, but only to use my Good
Offices w^th your House that the Publick may be put to no more
Expence. I am
Gentlemen with great Esteem
October 26^th 1723 Your most humble Servant
To the Honble the Upper House Cha: Calvert
of Assembly

The Address mentioned is as follows Viz.

By the Lower House of Assembly October the 26^th 1723
To the Hon^rble Cha Calvert Esq^r Governor of Maryland.

The Humble Address of the Low^r House of Assembly
now sitting.

p. 154

May it Please yo^r Hon^r
As We look upon your Hon^r to be the last Recourse we can
have here in Quest of Justice in our Parliamentary Proceed-
ings, we therefore make it our Humble Suit to your Hon^r that
since sitting nigh this Week at the Countrys Expence, and to
our own very great fatigue without having any thing new
Proposed to us from the Honble the Upper House & being
under Daily Expectation of having the Session Concluded,
we could not proceed to any thing new in our own House,
lest such Proceeding should be interrupted by such conclusion ;
we having Room Given us to Believe it might be hourly Ex-
pected, and forasmuch as it is our Real opinions, from the
best observations that we can make, that the Honble Upper
House endeavours to Impede or at least Delay the putting an
End to this unnecessary and Expensive Charge by insisting
on matters wherein themselves are interested, and pretending
to continue Argum^ts thereon, tho' they are driven to the neces-
sity of Repeating and new Dressing their old ones Instead
of Offering new after they have had the Resolutions of this
House frequently repeated to them, that we could not even
for Duty and Conscience sake Comply with their Demands,
whereby it seems as if they Endeavoured to enforce us to
Submit to their bad Reasonings, as by a Kind of Duresse w^ch
we are firmly Resolved we will never do unless Our Con-
sciences can be Satisfied of the Right of their Claim

p. 155

We therefore humbly pray yo^r Honour that you will be
favourably pleased to interpose y^r Authority and to dismiss