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Philip Lee Esqr from the Upper House delivers Mr Speaker :
The Peto of John Giles and John Galloway thus endorst viz :
By the Upper House of Assembly July the 14th 1726.
The within petition being read is recomended to the Con-
sideration of the lower House of Assembly All persons
interested to have Notice thereof
Signd p Ordr Geo. Plater Cl. Up. Ho
On reading whereof Ordered that Notice be given accord-
ing to the above Endorsmt
The Bill directing the payment of Servants fees was read
the first & second times and the Question was put whether
the same shall Pass or not?
And it passed in the Affirmative which being endorst was
sent to the upper House by Colo Belt & Mr Stoughton.
They return and say they delivered it
Colo Holland from the Upper House acquaints Mr Speaker
that his Honr the Governeur requires him and the whole
House to attend imediately in the Upper House & withdrew.
Thereupon Mr Speaker wth the whole House go to the
Upper House.
Mr Speaker wth the whole House return where Mr Speaker
resumes the Chair and reports that his Honour the Govr on
his Lpps Behalf was pleas'd to deliver the following Speech, viz.
Gentlemen of the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly
C. Baltemore.
I thank you for your late dutifull Addresses, and notwith-
standing some Difference among you, I perswade myself You
severally pursue the same End; And aim in generall at the
Good and Wellfare of the Province. And as it is our mutuall
happiness, that the Province has with Justice Equity and
Prudence been hitherto governed, so the best means to Con-
tinue these inestimable Blessings among us, is to Persevere
in the same Method of Rule and Obedience And I think I
cannot better manifest my Steadiness, in making the Publick
Good the Rule of my Government, than by preserving to you
his Majesty's Subjects in this part of the World under my
Care such Laws, Rules, Customs and Usages, as are un-
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