156 Assembly Proceedings, October 3-November 2, 1728.

U. H. J.

The following message is prepared and sent to the Lower House
by Col^o Mathew Tilghman Ward viz.

By the Upper House of Assembly October the 31^st 1728.
Gentlemen
The Bill for Bettering the Staple of Tobacco being near finished
by both Houses of Assembly and there being two Clauses in the
Act Passed last Session of Assembly Entituled An Act concerning
Tobacco which by experience have been found greatly Burthensom
and detrimental to the Commerce of this Province viz. the Clause
allowing eight p Cent and that relating to Rowling Tobacco where-
fore we recommend to your House the necessity of bringing in a
Bill to repeal the Clause aforesaid.
Signed p Order Geo. Plater Cl Up Ho.

A Message from the Lower House by M^r George & M^r Robins
viz.

By the Lower House of Assembly October the 31^st 1728
May it please your Honours
This House is inclinable to pay the charges of this Assembly for
what more is due to the members of both Houses and the Officers
&c than is allowed in the Journal of Accounts in Current money at
10^s p hundred & desire to know if your Honours will Consent to
the same
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl lo. Ho.

The following Address was Presented to his Excellency by Col^o
William Holland attended by the rest of the members of this House
viz.

To his Excellency Benedict Leonard Calvert Governor and
Commander in chief in and over the province of Maryland
The humble Address of the Upper House of Assembly

May it please your Excellency
We hold ourselves Obliged as an Upper House of Assembly to
acknowledge our just and grateful sence of your Excellencys Vigi-
lance & good Conduct in suppressing (by your timely Proclama-
tion) the mischievous Designs of some secret Enemies to his Lord-
ships Government and thereby secured the Assembly of this prov-
ince now sitting against the flagrant & most Audacious Attempts
Intended upon our Liberty and freedom of Legislation
Such Seditious practices are but too Evident proofs of the malice
of some persons who may think to find their Account by Embar-
rassing the present Establishment and by involving the people into