The Lower House. 693

Address as to some Other Matters by your Lordships permis-
sion made known to us this Sessions which administer fresh
Occasions of Importance to make this our Humble Applica-
tion to your Lordship.
We Acknowledge with a full sence of Gratitude the Honour
of your Lordships Thanks for our Late Addresses which
really were as your Lordship pleased to Accept them, Affec-
tionate and Dutifull and we hope whatever Appearance any
thing that Comes from your Lordship may seem to have at
our first view We shall still find your Lordship persisting
in the Just resolution you are pleased to declare to us of make-
ing the publick good of our province the Rule of your Govern-
ment, that our Expectations from the happy Effects thereof
May never be frustrated, nor Lessened, unless by the frui-
tion of the Expected good.

May it please your Lordship.
It was with great pleasure as well as Dependance on your
Lordships preserving our priviledges that we Observed Your
Lordship declare yourself Convinced how much it was for
our Advantage that your Lordship should be Assisted with
men of knowledge and Intrest in our affairs in Order not only
to preserve those priviledges wee Allready Enjoy but to Ob-
tain Others.
But when your Lordships first Article of Instructions of
the nineteenth of March Anno Dom. Seventeen hundred and
Twenty two was Communicated to us, it Obliged us to Con-
fess our Selves extreamly Mistaken in that Instruction or that
those persons that had the Honour to Advise your Lordship
therein were so. That they were Mistaken we shall Under-
take to prove But first it will be necessary to shew what the
Words of that instruction are viz :

London the 19^th March 1722.
You will herewith receive my Dissent to An Act of Assem-
bly Intituled An Act for Limitation of Actions of Trespass
and Ejectment to be published and Entered on Record Ac-
cording to your forms which Act is not only Explanatory of
An English Statute not in force in our province but seems by
Implication to Introduce English Statutes to Operate there,
which Statutes have been Allways held not to Extend to the
plantations unless by Express words Located Thither; And
you are Upon All Occasions so to Conduct your self on my
behalf as not Only not to Admit Any such practice to take
place in Maryland but even to Discountenance any Doubts
Concerning the same and when Any of the English Statute

L. H. J.