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Phillip Lee Esq^r from the Upper House delivers to M^r Speaker
the following Message (Viz.) [The text of this message is printed
at page 149.]

L. H. J.

The Question being put whether a Supplementary bill to the Act
Entituled an Act for the better Administration of Justice in Testa-
mentary Affairs &c. should be brought in or not. Resolved in the
Affirmative.
Benjamin Tasker Esq^r from the Upper House delivers to M^r
Speaker the following Message (viz.) [The text of this message
is printed at page 150.]
The Governor's Answer to the Address of this House of Yester-
day sent to M^r Speaker and by him Communicated to this house was
ordered to be entred in the following words (viz.)

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Gentlemen.
I thank you for your obliging Address Yesterday Presented me
your Satisfaction in the Sense I had Expressed of some Daring de-
signs agains the freedom of Legislation is most agreable to me as
doubtless your Resentments against the Authors of them must be
very gratefull to the good People you represent I shall as you desire
lay before you such further Notice and Papers as I may find Con-
ducive to a Discovery of the Persons therein either openly or se-
cretly concerned that being known and Distinguished any influence
they might otherwise have may be happily disappointed I Embrace
this as a Proper Opportunity to assure you of my Steady Adherence
to the Maintenance and Preservation of the Constitution of Mary-
land.
Bened^t Leon^d Calvert

Nicholas Lowe Esq^r from the Upper House delivers to M^r
Speaker the Paper bill Entituled an Act reviving & Continuing an
Act of Assembly of this Province entituled an Act for the better
releif of poor Debtors thus Indorsed (viz)

By the Upper house of Assembly October 30^th 1728

The Ingrossed bill whereof this is the Originall is read & As-
sented to by this House.
Signed p Order. Geo: Plater Cl. Up. Ho :

And the Paper bill entituled an Act empowering the Justices of
Calvert County to finish the Court house of that County by an As-
sessment on the Inhabitants thereof as also for the releif of John

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