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pare a Bill Accordingly, and a Bill Directing what penall
Laws shall be read by the Clergy.
Colo Addison and Philemon Lloyd Esqr from the Upper
House Deliver Mr Speaker the following message Viz :
By the Upper House of Assembly
Octobr the 7th 1723.
Gent.
Pursuant to our Message of the 25th of October 1722 and
your Message this day by Colo Mackall and three more this
House Does Appoint Col. Thomas Addison and Philemon
Lloyd Esqr two of our Members to be joyned in a Conference
with Colo John Mackall Mr Robert Tyler Mr Thomas Gant
and Mr Robert King members of your House on the Subject
matter of the bill to be prepared relateing to the Affair of the
Indians Lands and they are ready to meet the members of
your House at Mr Bowes' Immediately.
Signd p order. Sam Skippon Cl Up Ho.
An Answer to the Governours Speech on Saturday the
Twenty Eighth Day of September Last being prepared by
the Committee of Laws was read and Approved of and
ordered to be Entered as follows Viz :
To the Honourable Charles Calvert Esqr Governour of
Maryland.
The Humble Address of the Lower House of Assembly.
May it Please your Honour.
We are Glad the unanimity we have Shewn in the Dispatch
of those Affairs that at the opening of this Sessions your
Honour has been pleased to Lay before us met your Appro-
bation.
His Lordships directions to Make an handsome present at
his own Expence to the Northern Indians to facilitate a
Treaty with them Advantagious to this province as it is a
great Argument that his Lordship makes the good & Interest
of its Inhabitants his Care So it Lays us under the greatest
obligations to Acknowledge as wee doe in the most gratefull
manner his Lordships Goodness and Generosity and return
your Honour our most Humble thanks for the Stipulations
you have been pleased to make for the Security of our Fron-
tiers and your Endeavours to Establish a beneficiall Trade
with the said Indians.
We Concurr with your Honour that the Duty on ffurrs
has been a Great Obstacle to such a Trade and of Little Ad-
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