46 Assembly Proceedings, October 6-November 4, 1724.

U. H. J.

to lay them at your Door For our parts We shall always
think we best recommend ourselves to his Lordship by plain
truths tho' they should prove displeasing & shall ever make
it our Choice rather to serve his Lordship without pleasing
him than to please him without serving him should those
Offices ever unhappily be incompatible and in the same man-
ner we now treat your Honours and as a further Instance
of our Steadiness in this Resolution We declare our Senti-

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ments that our Lord Proprietary your Honours nor our
Country can never be better served in their Seperate Interests
if such there be than by their uniting heartily for the Common
good and that a right Understanding what that is is a most

necessary Step for the Attainment of it, & that a Bold and
Generous Freedom is in our opinion the best way to attain
a right understanding and We leave your Honours to draw
the Consequence & We beg your Honours if from the ear-
nestness of our desires that every part of this Legislature
should be vigilant and active in their duty We have used any
Freedoms with You that have moved dislike it may Center
upon Us rather than give the least Interruption to your Zeal
for the Welfare of our Country
Signed p Order M. Jenifer Cl. Lo. Ho.

A Bill from the Lower House of Assembly by M^r Taylor
and M^r Tolley Entituled An Act for erecting a Town at Joppa
in Baltimore County and for Securing the Land whereon
the Court House and Prisons are built to the use of the said
County thus Endorst Viz.

By the Lower House of Assembly October the 28^th 1724

Read the first & Second times by especial Order and will
Pass
Signed p Order M. Jenifer Cl Lo. Ho.

An Engrossed Bill from the Lower House of Assembly
by Mess" Crab and Captain King Entituled An Act for the
relief of sundry languishing Prisoners therein mentioned
thus Subscribed viz.
October the 28^th 1724
Read and Assented to by the Lower House of Assembly &
Sign'd p Order M. Jenifer Cl. Lo. Ho.

Which said Bill being read is also Assented to by this
House
The Journal of the Committee of Accounts brought up