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Read the first time in this House and ordered to lie on the Table
The following message is prepared and sent to the Lower House
by Charles Calvert Esq^r viz.

By the Upper House of Assembly October the 9^th 1728.
Gentlemen
On Reading the Bill Entituled An Act to repeal An Act Enti-
tuled An Act prohibiting the Importation of Bread Beer flour &c^a
we perceive you have altered the usual Stile in the Enacting part
thereof for which we desire to know your Reasons before we pass
that Bill
Signed p Order Geo: Plater Cl. Up. Ho.

Adjourned till to Morrow morning nine of the Clock

U. H. J.

Thursday morning October the 10^th 1728
Met again according to Adjournment Present as Yesterday
A Message from the Lower House by Captain Robert King &
M^r John Courts viz.

By the House of Delegates October the 10^th 1728
May it please Your Honours
In Answer to your message by Charles Calvert Esq^r dated Oct^r
the 9^th 1728 we acquaint your Honours that we are the Deputys,
Representatives or Delegates of all the Freemen of Maryland not
excepting even your Honours in this Assembly and we therefore
think ourselves to have a right to use any of the said Terms
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl. Ho. Del.

To which the following Answer is prepared and sent by John
Hall Esq^r

By the Upper House of Assembly October the 10^th 1728
Gentlemen
In Answer to your message by Captain Robert King and M^r John
Courts we Observe that the stile to our Laws now in force is not
only Agreable to his Lordships Instructions (at the Restoration of
his Government to his then Governor) and Agreed to and setled by
Consent of both Houses of Assembly as you may perceive by the
Journals in July Anno Dom 1716 but Consonant to the Practice of
this Province before the Administration of the Government was in
the Crown wherefore we think it unnecessary .to alter a Stile so
well Established
Signed p Order Geo Plater, Cl. Up. Ho.

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