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We therefore think it our Duty to Interpose in time that this
Young Obstacle to Old Experience may not it Self grow Stiff
through age, and Obstinate by use. Your Honours give us
occasion to Remark that tho you be an acting Body in this
Legislature, Yet it is we that are the peoples Representa-
tives for whom all Laws are made and Human Govern-
ment Establisht. Your Honours Seem to be Assistants to
Prerogative and Dependant on it, Rather than a State in
which the people place a Confidence, Dependant on it (we
may be allowed to Say) since your Honours at the time when
you were pleas'd to think it your Glory and Priviledge to As-
simulate your Constitution to that of Great Brittain in its

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three Estates of Legislature were pleas'd to Declare it his
Lordships undoubted Right to Discharge at pleasure any
member of his Councill and Consequently of Your House as
you there agree, which things when your Honours fully Con-
sider we hope you will not so much Insist on Your Having the
Sole keeping of the Bills prepared for the Assent, but that you
will agree to trust our Speaker with presenting them to his
Honour the Governour for his Assent as hath been usuall,
who for Dispatch may appoint two or more of our Members
to see the Scales affixt and fiat wrote to them according to
former practice in Readiness for his Honours Sanction, who
by the perusall of them at the Oppertunities mentioned in our
Late Message may be well apprized whether they be proper
for his Assent or not. Your Honours Conclusion in this
Matter will Demonstrate how far you are pleas'd to Decline
unnecessary Debates with us.
Sign'd p Order Mich: Jenifer Cl. Lo: Ho :

Which was sent to the Upper House by Coll^o Ward, and
M^r Solomon Wright. They Return and Say they delivered it.
An Engrost Bill to Encourage the Takers up of Runaway
Slaves.
An Engrost Bill for the dividing Great Choptank Parish.
An Engrost Bill for Relieving the Inhabitants from some
Aggrievances were severally read and assented to and sent
to the Upper House for their Assent by M^r Smith and Coll^o
Belt. They Return and Say they delivered them.
The following Message Prepared viz :

By the Lower House of Assembly

Octo^r the 28^th 1725
May it please Your Honours.
The two Servants we mention in our Message of the 27^th
Stand Committed as persons of Evil fame for want .of Se-

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