The Upper House. 9

By the Lower House of Assembly Oct. the 10^th 1724

May it please your Honours
By a Report made to this House this Session from our
Committee of Courts of Justice it seems the Clause of the
Oath of a Judge used in England which on the 25^th of October
1722 was resolved by this House to be a necessary clause
in the Oath taken by the Judges in this province is not Used in
the Oath taken by the Judges of the Provincial Court nor of
some County Courts within this province Your Honours may
please to Observe from your Journal that the Resolves then
made were communicated to you from this House by a Mes-
sage of the 31^st of October that same Sessions and Your
Honours on the 3^d of November then next by your Message
were pleas'd to Observe that those Resolves being of the
greatest Consequence to the Lord Proprietary & this Prov-

U. H. J.

ince and that Sessions being near a conclusion you had not
Time for so mature a consideration as the nature of them
required and therefore referred the further Consideration
of them until the then next Sessions of Assembly. How far
your Honours were pleased [to consider of them] in the then
next and now last Sessions is best known to your Honours.
But as we do not find the Clause resolved incerted in the oath
above we now take the Liberty of Recommending it further to
Your Honours Consideration and Endeavours to procure the
same to be done and have directed M^r Attorney General A
member of this House to lay before your Honours a draught of
such Oaths as may be more agreable to the Oaths used in
England and to the constitution of this Province than those
now Used which as we conceive have some defects therein
from the frequent and careless Transcribing of them by
Young and Careless Clerks
Signed p Order M. Jenifer Cl Lo. Ho.

Adjourned till Monday morning

Monday October the 12^th 1724
Present
The honble Charles Calvert Esq^r Governor

p. 102

The
honourable

Col^o William Holland
Col^o Samuel Young,
John Hall Esq^r
Col^o Thomas Addison,
Philemon Lloyd Esq^r

CoP Richard Tilghman,
Col^o Mathew Tilghman
Ward,
James Bowles Esq^r
John Rousby Esq^r
Benjamin Tasker Esq^r