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mined to Act by it, in the Course of Your Administration,
that we may the better know how to Close our address to his
Lordship on that Subject.
Sign'd p Order of the Lower House R. Ungle, Speak^r

Which was Sent to his Honour the Gov^r by M^r Crabb and
five others. They Return and Say they delivered it.
An Engrost Bill for making Valid Probats &c: before
Magestrates in Annapolis, was Read and Assented to, and
was so Endorst.
A Bill for the Naturalization of Michael Ury a Greek, and
the Bill for Removing Calvert County Court House were
Severally Read the first and second times by Especiall order
and past, which were so Endorst and sent by M^r Smith, and
Vachel Denton Esq^r to the Upper House. They Return and
say they Delivered them.
The Petition of John Bagby is Referred till next Sessions.
John Rousby Esq^r from the Upper House delivers M^r
Speaker the following Message viz.

By the Upper House of Assembly

Octo^r the 28^th 1725
Gentlemen.
You were not Mistaken when you understood that we were
farr from desiring to Enter into Unnecessary Debates with
your House, for so we Realy were, and are, but we are not
(to avoid Debates) obliged to Submitt our Judgment to your
Demands as often as you are pleas'd to Require things of us,
which we do not think Reasonable to Comply with, and Your
Persisting in those Debates Rather lays the Imputation of
promoting them at Your Doors than ours. We once more
observe to you, that we do not find any Certain Rules has been

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ever made in the Case now Debated but That the practice
has been various and since the Latest, tho of no Longer a
Continuance then ten or Eleven Years for the Reasons given
in our former Messages is in our opinion the best, we Cannot
Consent to depart from it. If you please to Consult the
former Journalls of Both Houses of Assembly, you will find
many Alterations in the practice of both Houses, in things
of much greater Consequence, than this at present in Debate,
and that without any Express Resolution Concerning them,
and if we should without any other reason than that such
practices formerly prevailed Insist upon a Renovation of
them, Notwithstanding the present practices were more Con-
venient, we should spend a great deal of our own time, and