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us either by Prorogation Dissolution or Adjournment as to
your Hon^r shall seem meet; unless your Hon^r shall think fit
to Propose any Matter yourself that you may think proper,
which we shall ever pay all due regard to, and shew your
Hon^r how much we are

Your faithfull Dutiful and Obedient Servants
Sign'd p Order of the House R. Ungle Speaker

His Hon^rs Answer to this Address is as follows viz.

M^r Speaker
I desire you will please to acquaint your House that I return
them my Sincere thanks for the great regard they Express
for any thing that shall come from me to your House. I have
nothing to lay before them, and am heartily sorry any mis-
understanding has arose between the two Houses; nothing
shall be wanting in me to accommodate this Difference and
will put a Speedy End to this Session If your House doth not
proceed on further Busieness
I am Your very humble Servant
October the 25^th 1723 Cha: Calvert
To the Hon^rble M^r Speaker

A Message from the Low^r House by M^r Beale and five
others viz.

By the Low^r House of Assembly October the 26^th 1723

U. H. J.

May it please Your Hon^rs
In Answer to your Message this Day by Col^o Holland and
two other of your members we are at a Loss to know by what
part of our Message of the 25^th Instant we have acknowledged
your Allowances to have been both Reasonable & Customary,
so as to give your Hon^rs the least colour for the consequence
you are pleased to draw from that Message viz. that those
Allowances are now Just. Certain we are that there is nothing
Contained in that Message or our Intentions to warrant such
an Inference, we have indeed Agreed that such Allowances
have been made by Virtue of Laws formerly in Force But
that that should Continue after the Repeal of those Laws is
a notion too ridiculous to prevail with us or any people in
their Senses

We must with Regret confess that some late Assemblies
have Agreed to the Allowances yo^r Hon^rs now Claim altho'
no better founded than at present we apprehend for want of
duely Considering the Alteration, the Repealing of the former

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